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Neta Lohnes Frazier was born in Owosso, Michigan on April 18, 1890. She graduated from Whitman College in 1912 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She taught at Waitsburg High School for a number of years, and was an assistant editor and editor for the Spokane Valley Herald. She was a writer, who produced fifteen published volumes and numerous contributions for literary collections, primarily about the history of the American West and Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. Additionally, she was the president of the Spokane Writer's Guild and the Spokane branch of the American Association of University Women from 1951 through 1953. She was named one of seven outstanding Kappa Kappa Gamma alumnae in 1960, had four of her books selected for the Junior Literary Guild, and was awarded the 1967 Women in Communications Award, the 1967 Fort Wright College Award, and the 1968 Governor's Award. She died on June 2, 1990.