Showers, Lorena.

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Lorena Williams was born in Iowa. She married Roydon Showers in 1924. After living in Minnesota for several years, they moved to Juneau, Alaska, in 1940 and then to Anchorage in 1941. Lorena Showers worked as a waitress in Anchorage and became an active member of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union. She negotiated the first union health program in Alaska in 1952 and became one of the trustees of the program. She served on the government commission and other committees. She wrote a book, Here Comes the Showers, about her husband who died in 1968.

From the description of Papers, 1945-1997. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42926204

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creatorOf Showers, Lorena. Papers, 1945-1997. OCLC Western Training, W7L
referencedIn Brooks, Maria. Alaska Women's Oral History Project : records, 1980-1983. UAA/APU Consortium Library, Consortium Library
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associatedWith Alaska. Employment Security Division. corporateBody
associatedWith Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union (Alaska) corporateBody
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Alaska
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Hotels
Restaurant
Restaurants
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Active 1945

Active 1997

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