About Arlene Fay

  • Biography

    The following, courtesy of Mary Scriver, is from the Great Falls Tribune, Friday August 10, 2001:

    Arlene Hooker Fay was born in Great Falls on Nov. 21, 1933, to William and
    Esther Hooker. She lived her first five years on a farm outside Highwood,
    before moving to Great Falls. Arlene contracted polio in August, 1948, just before her sophomore year and was confined to a wheelchair ever since. She graduated from Great Falls High School in 1951, taking classes on the first floor, as there was no elevator.

    She worked as a medical secretary for a year and for two years as a secretary with the child welfare division of the Cascade County Welfare office, while painting portraits evenings and weekends.<...

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