Latham monument will be dedicated

The Fairmount Memorial Association, the Spokane Police Department’s History Book Committee and the Spokane Law Enforcement Museum will dedicate a monument in honor of Dr. Mary Latham on Friday at 3 p.m. at Greenwood Memorial Terrace, 211 N. Government Way.

Latham was the first female doctor in Spokane and was involved in founding the Spokane Humane Society and the Spokane Public Library.

She died in 1917 of pneumonia at the age of 72.

Although she had been divorced from her husband, Dr. Edward Latham, for 18 years, she still was buried by his side in the cemetery. The original headstone reads only, “Dr. Edward Latham and Mary, his wife.”

For more information about the dedication, call Duane Broyles of the Fairmount Memorial Association at 326-3800.