Ida Momyer Odell was well-known in the Klamath County business and social circles during the first half of the twentieth century. Ida Momyer was born on December 24th, 1881, in Dawson, Pennsylvania. She first came to the Klamath Basin with her family in 1899, moved to Ashland and San Francisco in 1906-1909, and later returned to Klamath County. She married Robert Odell in 1931; they moved from Klamath Falls to Salem in 1964. During her long life, Ms. Odell held various positions in Klamath Falls: banking secretary and assistant cashier in early financial organizations, Klamath Falls city treasurer, a school clerk, and a bookkeeper for a local sheep-raising partnership. One of her major interests was the history of Southern Oregon. That interest possibly caused Ida Odell to donate Modoc artifacts from her Hopkins Ranch in the Lower Klamath area to the Klamath County Museum. She was the founder and the first President of the Klamath County Historical Society. She wrote several articles for Klamath Echoes published by that organization. Ida Odell died at the age of 90, in 1972, in Salem, Oregon.