Aunt Susan

Vance started working at the Daily Oklahoman after the retirement of Susan Abercrombie in 1928 and took over her "Aunt Susan" cooking column. From 1928 to 1942, she wrote under the name Aunt Susan for one of Oklahoma's largest newspapers.^[1] Her recipe for "Aunt Bill's Brown Candy" became a holiday favorite in the state reprinted for at least 15 years.^[2] In the 1930s she hosted a five-day-a-week show on WKY. In 1933, her husband died. She later moved to New York and was the food editor for McCall's. In 1943, she married Harold L. Mueller, an associate editor for the Daily Oklahoman and Oklahoma City Times. In 1947, she worked for General Mills editing precursors to what would become the Betty Crocker Cookbook. In 1951 she published her own cookbook: Aunt Susan's How-to-Cook Book.^[1]

She retired in the 1960s and moved to Colorado to be closer to family.^[3] She died on September 27, 1972, in Evergreen, Colorado. She was a member of the Christian Science Church.^[1]