 Disillusioned with teaching in rural schoolhouses, she took a business course and began work as a bank teller for the Merchants Bank of Canada, which later merged with the Bank of Montreal, in Edgerton; this was an unusual career choice for a woman at the time.In 1922 she moved to Tofield, where she continued to work as a teller.The next year she moved to Killam, where she married William Rogers, the local high school principal, October 12, 1923.