A native of Austin, Erna Guttman Rockwood was born April 2, 1911, to Kathe and Sigmund Guttman. She attended Palm Elementary School, John T. Allan High School and Austin High School. She married Robert F. Rockwood.
Rockwood started working at the Sears, Roebuck and Company Congress Avenue store in 1936 in the Cashiering Department. In her thirty-six year career she worked in all operating offices before retiring from the Audit Department in 1973. In addition to her career at Sears, Rockwood was a member of the Zonta Club of Austin, the Credit Women's Breakfast Club of Austin, the Grand Chapter of Texas Order of the Eastern Star and the Sears-Austin Retiree Club.
Rockwood died July 29, 1997.
From the guide to the Erna Rockwood Scrapbooks AR. 1997. 014., 1923-1993, 1961-1973, (Austin History Center, Austin Public Library, )
