The woman was one of the most interesting people I've ever known.  At 4'10", she was a parachute rigger in the Navy during WW II.  If you have ever seen the tables they fold these 'chutes on, you can only imagine!  I asked her how she managed and with the perpetual twinkle in her eye she said, "What do you think?  I jumped up on that table just like a monkey!"  She and Walter Gill could have been twins, separated at birth!