[3] Furtsch won the gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay with teammates Mary Carew, Annette Rogers and Wilhelmina von Bremen at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

During her Junior year at Tustin High School, a gym teacher noticed that she ran very fast.

Humeston got in touch with the Los Angeles Athletic Club, who were at the time, training girls for the 1932 Olympics.

She married Joe Ojeda, and together with him ran a real estate brokerage company in Santa Ana, California.

She received the Ralph Clark Distinguished Citizen Award in Santa Ana in 1984,[5] and was elected into the Orange County Sports Hall of Fame in 1985.