resting_place death_place death_date years_active birth_place birth_date spouse article_title birth_name occupation death_cause
forest lawn memorial park , glendale , california los angeles , california , united states 3 july 1984 1926 -- 1968 san francisco , california , united states 17 december 1902 harry -rrb- underwood -lrb- m. 1920 -- 1943 ; divorced agness underwood
 agnes may wilson newspaper reporter , editor heart failure
agness underwood

agness `` aggie '' may underwood -lrb- december 17 , 1902 -- july 3 , 1984 -rrb- was an american journalist and newspaper editor , and the first woman in the united states to hold a city editorship on a major metropolitan daily .
she worked as a reporter for the `` los angeles record '' from 1928 to 1935 , the `` herald-express '' from 1935 to 1962 , and the `` herald-examiner '' from 1962 to 1968 .
