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William “Bill” Don
5 Jul 1897 – 11 Jul 1979
| Birth | 5 Jul 1897 |
| Death | 11 Jul 1979 |
| Cemetery | Westminster Memorial Park Westminster , Orange County , California , USA |
| Added by | Chuck Schubert on 11 Nov 2019 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27180525 |
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Dora and Bill were married July 15, 1923, in two different counties in Wyoming, which is another tale. Fun and laughter were very important to her psyche. Even the Depression, with young sons Max and Vernon, and her ever patient husband, Bill, was endured with tolerance and good humor. She became an avid fly-fisherman after watching Bill catch trout. Dora owned and operated a restaurant in Boulder, Colorado; she always had a meal for any hobos; she never turned away a friend; and we were never surprised to see that Lillian, a friend, and her son had come during the night since no door was ever locked. Her sons would come home on a Friday evening, to a theater of laughter and music, with Dora in the center, playing her favorite piano music, and everyone urging her on, which didn't take much. She met at her restaurant, a football great named Byron "Whizzer" White, an All American at Colorado University in Boulder, Colorado who become a Supreme Court Justice; met Glen Miller of the Big Band era and started oil painting in earnest. With World War II on, she remodeled a house, sold it, used the profit to move to Oregon, where she saw an UFO but didn't realize it until after she turned 90; became a photography assistant and then she went to Southern California, to support the war effort by working at Douglas Aircraft. She and Bill went to the horse races on weekends. Dora is survived by her son, Max (Marion); grandchildren, Joanne (John Grosvenor), Janet (Jim Sebring), Chris (Jeff Jaeger), Patricia, Gary (Chris), and Doug ( ex-wife, Claudia); great-grandchildren, Hilary (Michael Rubin), Jane, Matt, Zachary, Geoff, Greg, Joshua, Jason, Crystalyn, Erin and Michelle. Dora is also survived by a few distant relatives in Wyoming and Colorado.. In addition, Dora is survived by an unknown number of relatives on her father, Don Leeper's side of the family. Dora was preceded in death by husband, William H. Don and son, Vernon (Eve, dec.). Westminster Memorial Park in Westminster, California, followed by a graveside ceremony.
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