She received the 1976 NARS Meritorious Service Award for “advancing the status of women in the archival profession.

[7] Mabel E. Deutrich was born in Burns, Wisconsin[4] and graduated from La Crosse State Teachers College (now known as the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse) with an associate degree in rural education in 1934.

[4][5] She became a clerk in the Mail and Record Division in the Office of the Chief Engineers during World War II.

[11] Responsibility for enforcing the Equal Pay Act and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act were transferred from the Labor Department to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 1979.

[13] Mabel E. Deutrich died of cancer in Santa Cruz, California on June 4, 1998.