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OPINION: A handkerchief, a legacy, and the work still ahead

by BECKY FUNK/The Idaho Way
| March 13, 2026 1:00 AM

March is Women’s History Month, a time to reflect on the women who helped shape our country — often quietly, without recognition and almost always through persistence.

On Tuesday, I was at the Idaho Capitol and had the chance to see something small but powerful: a framed suffrage-era handkerchief embroidered with the words “Votes for Women” that was a gift from North Idaho resident Donna Montgomery and North Idaho Republican Women.

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