she was indeed tumwater's first woman postmaster during a pivotal time in tumwater's history. it's fitting to rename the post office for her. she and her husband purchased the drugstore right in the heart of tumwater and drugstore became known as the hewitt drugstore. it was the center of the community and housed a store and, yes, a soda fountain and the post office all under run roof. she started as an assistant there but, get this, prior to that time, her husband was the postmaster, but it turns out when the postal service adopted civil service rules, she and her husband both took the examination. and guess what, she passed, he didn't, she became the postmaster in 1915. sounds like something that would happen in my you home. so following the death of her husband in 1927, she took over the business and served there until her retirement in 1942. she was the very first person to hold the position of tumwater postmaster. at the time of her retirement, she was also the longest serving postmaster in that city's history, which dates back to 1824. during her decades at the store, sh