Dorothy Lea Fisher, daughter of John Wallace (1902 Canada - 1974) and Alice Ethlyn (Daniels) (1909 - 1988) Fisher, as born 22 March 1935, Michigan. She graduated from Okemos high School in 1953 and married, 24 October 1953, Richard J. Hodgkin of Lansing.
Dorothy and Richard settled in Urbana, Illinois where their first born child, Mark Steven, was born. Sadly the baby died within a short time after birth. The couple were later blessed with two more children, Karen and David.
Dorothy passed away 25 April 1960 in Eaton County, Michigan. She was interred Glendale Cemetery, Okemos next to her first born child, Mark. In 1962 widower Richard Hodgkin married Miss Doris Marie "Toni" Marzean. Toni would give Richard 2 more children. She died in 2015 and Richard passed in 2021.
Thank you to Paul Roney OHS 1953 for notification of Dorothy's death.
Lansing State Journal 28 October 1953 Page 22
Lansing State Journal 19 October 1954 Page 17
Lansing State Journal 25 Apirl 1960 Page 2