Royal Neighbors, one of the first life insurance companies to insure women, celebrates 125 years

August 19, 2020 by Alma Gaul

Cynthia Tidwell is the leader of a trail-blazing organization founded 125 years ago this year in Rock Island.

Tidwell is president and CEO of Royal Neighbors of America, a membership life insurance and annuities organization founded by nine pioneering women who realized women’s lives had financial value and were worthy of life insurance.

Royal Neighbors was one of the first organizations in the country to do so and not only that, “but we did so 25 years before women had won the right to vote!” Tidwell said in a news release.

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Originally Posted at Muscatine Journal on August 14, 2020 by Alma Gaul.