George, Dorothy O'Donnell, 1921-2008

Dorothy O’Donnell George was born in 1921 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. After serving as a nurse in World War II in Hawaii, Okinawa and Japan, George returned home. She experienced a particularly bad winter and set out for California, but stopped in Las Vegas, Nevada to visit the family of her traveling companion, a girlfriend from her hometown. George applied for a nursing license, got it three days later, and never returned to Wisconsin.

George met her husband while working the night shift at Clark County Hospital. Their occupations and service in World War II drew them together in a marriage that has lasted over fifty years.