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The Woman in the Wool Coat

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Sep 03, 2026
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In 1954, my great-grandmother Helen became the first woman in the fifty year history of the Pennsylvania postmasters association to be elected state president.

Fifty years. One woman. My great grandma.

And before that, in 1939 and again in 1940, she was one of ten postmasters chosen out of the entire country for a national committee. The only one of the t…

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