Odum, Reathel M.

Reathel Odum (left) with an unidentified child.

Reathel Odum (left) and Phil sit on the front steps of a house.

Reathel Odum (seated, left) at dinner aboard the U.S.S. United States during a trip with former Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder (seated, fourth from left) and his wife Evlyn Snyder (seated, fifth from left). All others unidentified.

Portrait of Reathel Odum.

Reathel Odum sits in a lawn chair outside of a building in St. Louis, Missouri.

Reathel Odum asleep on a couch during a trip to Florida. Around this time, Ms. Odum became secretary to Bess W. Truman.

Mildred Dryden (left) and Reathel Odum, secretaries to Senator Harry S. Truman, sit on a bench outside a building in Washington, D.C.

Reathel Odum (first row) poses with a group of unidentified people. At this time, Ms. Odum was secretary to Senator Harry S. Truman.

Reathel Odum poses on the sidewalk in front of her rooming house on Harvard Street in Washington, D.C. At this time, she served as a secretary to Senator Harry S. Truman.

Left to right: Reathel Odum, Mildred Dryden, and Catherine Bixler, secretaries to Senator Harry S. Truman, sit on a bench outside a building in Washington, D.C.