Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

MISS DONNA LOUISE BURCHELL

Transcribed by Craig Hahn

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     Miss Donna Louise Burchell was born in Fallon, Churchill county, Nevada, 
and is a daughter of Charles Monroe and Effie (Harris) Burchell, who now live in 
Wheatland, Yuba county, where the father is engaged in the hardware business and 
owns valuable ranch property. Miss Burchell attended the public schools at 
Willows, California, to the fourth grade, after which she attended the schools 
of Wheatland, where her father had located. She entered the University of 
California at Berkeley, as a student in the College of Letter and Sciences, in 
which she majored in English, and from which she was graduated in 1928. Miss 
Burchell then became assistant to Mrs. Hatch in the Marysville City Library, and 
a few months later was promoted to assistant librarian. When Mrs. Hatch was 
granted a leave of absence, during June and July, 1929, Miss Burchell is very 
courteous and accommodating in her relations with the in which capacity she has 
rendered a service which has been uniformly commended. She received thorough 
training under Mrs. Hatch, who was an expert librarian and later taught library 
work in Philadelphia. Miss Burchell is very courteous and accommodating in her 
relations with the library patrons, and all who know her hold her in high 
esteem. She is a member of the Chi Sigma Pi sorority at Berkeley and belongs to 
the Order of Eastern Star at Wheatland. She has a sister, Catherine Margaret 
Burchell, who is a student in the junior college at Marysville.

Source: Wooldridge, J.W. Major History of the Sacramento Valley California, Vol. 
2 pgs. 431-432 The Pioneer Historical Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.