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==Background==

==Background==

Born in [[rural]] South Sutton in Merrimack Count in south central [[New Hampshire]], DeGree was one of six children of Richard Elmer and Helen Crampton Hall. With her husband, Joseph Alex Napoleon DeGree, a [[United States Navy]] veteran of [[World War II]], DeGree came to Monroe in 1949 so that he could take a position in the paper mill industry. She or her husband had also lived in [[Vermont]] in their younger years, locations not available. After numerous years as a housewife, DeGree obtained employment as a secretary and thereafter as a bookkeeper, receptionist, and assistant to a [[dentist]]. In the 1970s, she convinced a bank to lend her money in her own name to start a real estate business in which she worked initially nearly round the clock.<ref name=bio>{{cite news|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?pid=160664260|title=Dorothey Hall "Kitty" DeGree|publisher=The Monroe News-Star''|date=October 27, 2012|accessdate=July 7, 2015}}</ref>

Born in [[rural]] South Sutton in Merrimack Count in south central [[New Hampshire]], DeGree was one of six children of Richard Elmer and Helen Crampton Hall. With her husband, Joseph Alex Napoleon DeGree, a [[United States Navy]] veteran of [[World War II]], DeGree came to Monroe in 1949 so that he could take a position in the paper mill industry. She or her husband had also lived in [[Vermont]] in their younger years, locations not available. After numerous years as a housewife, DeGree obtained employment as a secretary and thereafter as a bookkeeper, receptionist, and assistant to a [[dentist]]. In the 1970s, she convinced a bank to lend her money in her own name to start a real estate business in which she worked initially nearly round the clock.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?pid=160664260|title=Dorothey Hall "Kitty" DeGree|publisher=The Monroe News-Star''|date=October 27, 2012|accessdate=July 7, 2015}}</ref>

==Career==

==Career==