Velma Elizabeth Huskey was a pioneer in early computing and author of several important papers on the history of computing.
11 Facts About Velma Huskey
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Velma Huskey was the daughter of German-American farmers Frederick William Roeth and Clara Matilda Fessler.
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Velma Huskey attended Houston High School, where she wrote and edited the school news column published in The Piqua Daily Call.
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Velma Huskey lived in Britain for a year after the Second World War.
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Velma Huskey worked as an information specialist for the National Bureau of Standards from 1948 to 1952.
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Velma Huskey became a technical writer at the Institute for Numerical Analysis at UCLA.
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Velma Huskey traveled to the Soviet Union for the 1959 technical delegation in computers, paying her own way while her husband represented the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Velma Huskey studied letters in the Byron and Lovelace collection of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford during summer visits.
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Velma Huskey married Harry Huskey in 1939 and they had four children, Harry Douglas Jr, Carolyn Louise, Roxanne Louise and Linda Louise.
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Velma Huskey was a member of the Messiah Lutheran church in Santa Cruz.
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Velma Huskey was buried at Santa Cruz Memorial Park in Santa Cruz, California.