The 5' 6" Winkler fit the frame perfectly. She took the paint with her to the office which made her work easier than usual. This cookie is set by Linkedin. var hp_ts = 0; It contains the domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). Building a company of this magnitude alone would have been remarkable, but Nesmith shared with me a conversation he had with Bettes staff after she passed away in 1980. By 1951, she had worked her way up to the position of executive secretary for W.W. Overton, the Chairman of the Board of the Texas Bank and Trust. That technological shift (and the ensuing increase in typographical errors) became a source of inspiration for a new product in the 1950s. $('.email-submission:not(.prevent-default)').submit(function (e) { At each step along the way, she expanded the business, moving her production out of her kitchen into her backyard, then into a four-room house. Bette Nesmith Graham, Inventor of Liquid Paper - ThoughtCo She had the lion's share of a multi-million dollar industry and Bette, now a wealthy woman, established two charitable foundations, the Gihon Foundation in 1976, to collect paintings and other artworks by women, and the Bette Clair McMurray Foundation to support women in need, in 1978. However, as an article from a July 1967 issue of Teen Life magazine told it, "When Davy applied for an immigration visa to America, he had to sign a form stating that he knew that after six months here, he would be eligible for the draft."