Past
From Atlanta, Georgia the youngest of two girls, Dorothy was raised in a Christian home. "My parents were strict and I got started dating late (by today's standards). I always wanted to be a school teacher and have 5 children. Well, I went to high school then I got married when I first got out of high school and moved around a lot. I started a teacher training program but didn't finish. I wish I would have finished but my husband didn't want to pay for it and that was the end of it. I was a cook for several years and I was the first woman and the first black manager of Arby's.
Then I got training as a nurse assistant but I started having problems with my health and the doctor told me, by the time I was ready to graduate from nursing assistant training, that I couldn't lift anyone. So I started computer training and then I moved to this city. I have been here for about 5 years.
Special skills and interests as a teen: I liked to sew and bowl . I made a lot of things for people I know.
Heart problems: I think this was related to a lot of things: My mother and father both had heart disease my mother had heardening of the arteries and my father had five heart attacks. So it was heriditary and...I was raised in the south (I lived in Atlanta and it was not incorporated into the city) and we had hogs. My grandfather killed hogs twice a year (in October and March) so you could just go downstairs and cut off you a piece of ham or bacon and all that. So that had something to do with the heart problems, too.
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