Inez Crittenden

[2] Inez Crittenden worked as a telephone operator in California at age fourteen.

She later worked as a secretary to the president of the California Packing Corporation in San Francisco.

[3] She was one of the first women to join the United States Signal Corps, where her fluent French skills were in demand during World War I.

[7] Crittenden was soon transferred to work for the public relations bureau at the American Embassy in Paris.

[8] Inez Crittenden died in Paris, on Armistice Day in 1918, from pneumonia, a complication of influenza.