[3] After completion of her secondary education, Montgomery enrolled in the University of Oklahoma (OU), graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1922.

Between 1922 and 1923, she worked as a newspaper editor of the society and feature pages and then began teaching English at Fairfax High School in 1923.

In 1925, Montgomery married Alexander E. Kull, left Fairfax Schools in 1926, and in 1927 obtained a Master's in English from Columbia University.

After her husband's death in 1953, Kull left public service and began working with the Salvation Army in Oklahoma City until 1959.

[5] She was hired by the Department of Health and Welfare in Anchorage[4] to help in preparation for statehood to plan social services for Alaskan Athabaskans and homesteaders of south central Alaska.