Maida was an artist, and died very tragically one summer while on a Watch tower looking out for fires.

July 17, 1964: "A 20-year-old girl who was spending her summer as a fire lookout, was found dead at the foot of her lookout tower Thursday afternoon.
"Maida Talbott, a student at the University of Idaho in Moscow, failed to check in at the regular time from the Bertha Hill Lookout Station about 35 miles northeast of Orofino, officials of the Clearwater Timber Protective Association said.
"Her body was later spotted by an air patrol at the bottom of the 52-foot tower from which she had apparently fallen, said an official of the association.
"Miss Talbott was described as an experienced lookout, having worked last summer." (Idaho State Journal)

Spokesman-Review, July 17, 1964:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9TdWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2egDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2805%2C442766

Maida was an artist, and died very tragically one summer while on a Watch tower looking out for fires.

July 17, 1964: "A 20-year-old girl who was spending her summer as a fire lookout, was found dead at the foot of her lookout tower Thursday afternoon.
"Maida Talbott, a student at the University of Idaho in Moscow, failed to check in at the regular time from the Bertha Hill Lookout Station about 35 miles northeast of Orofino, officials of the Clearwater Timber Protective Association said.
"Her body was later spotted by an air patrol at the bottom of the 52-foot tower from which she had apparently fallen, said an official of the association.
"Miss Talbott was described as an experienced lookout, having worked last summer." (Idaho State Journal)

Spokesman-Review, July 17, 1964:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9TdWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2egDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2805%2C442766