Suttka, Reatha (Bernice Reatha Gentry Suttka)

ID
2701
Nationality
American
Occupation
Re-weaver
Entrepreneur
Summary
Born at Forsman, IN; graduated Indiana School for the Deaf 1927. In 1947, founded the French Reweaving clothing repair company in Cincinnati, employing many deaf women; branched out to Chicago (Globe Repair Co.) and other cities. Her deaf husband was William W. Suttka (q.v.).
References
Silent Worker, July 1949, p.3-4; Deaf Women, p.57.
Dates
fl. 1955