Pace the third highest ranking woman in his administration, next only to the Treasurer of the United States and the new position of United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the first Kentucky woman appointed by a president to a national post. Pace was active in the GOP for many years, including a stint from 1948 to 1957 as her state's Republican national committeewoman. Death Pace died in 1970 at the home of her daughter, Patty-Nell Pace Keen, in Burkesville, the seat of Cumberland County. Pace is interred beside her husband at the former Pace-Allen Cemetery, now Grider Memorial Cemetery, in Waterview in Cumberland County at a site overlooking Pace Farms. References Further reading Pearl Carter Pace Collection, 1902–2000, Western Kentucky University Library Special Collections, Bowling Green, Kentucky. 1896 births 1970 deaths 20th-century American educators Businesspeople from Kentucky Women sheriffs Women in Kentucky politics Kentucky Republicans Kentucky sheriffs People from Cumberland County, Kentucky People from Tompkinsville, Kentucky American women police officers 20th-century American politicians 20th-century American women politicians Kentucky businesswomen Kentucky women in education 20th-century American women educators 20th-century American businesspeople