Dorothy Ruth WOODRUFF

  General Notes:

Photo: Dorothy Ruth (Woodruff) McQuie, 1907-1981

Photo in the collection of DeeAnna Allum Granston



1907 BIRTH of Dorothy Ruth Woodruff

1910 CENSUS, Kansas, Leavenworth County, Leavenworth ("Doretha," age 2, with parents)

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Polk County, DesMoines ("Dorothy," age 12, with parents)

1925 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Polk County, DesMoines ("Dorothey," age 17, is in her parents' household)

MARRIAGE of Dorothy Ruth Woodruff and Doyle Brown

1930 CENSUS, Iowa, Polk County, DesMoines ("Dorothy Brown," age 21, is in the household of her parents, Harry and Lake (Matthews) (Allum) Woodruff, along with Dorothy's first husband, Doyle Brown, age 22; Brown's occupation, "Railroad, Express Co")

1937 MARRIAGE of Dorothy Ruth (Woodruff) Brown and Clifford Destin McQuie

1941 DEATH of mother, Lake (Matthews) (Allum) Woodruff

1956 DEATH of father, Harry Bane Woodruff

1966 DEATH of second husband, Clifford Destin McQuie, at approximately 65 years

1981 DEATH, Dorothy Ruth (Woodruff) (Brown) McQuie, at approximately 74 years



MILITARY SERVICE (Clifford): "My husband served in the 1st World War at the age of 16 years. He fought three battles, including the Argonne Forest."

--Dorothy Ruth (Woodruff) (Brown) McQuie (1907-1981)



PHOTOGRAPHS:
Dorothy as a child (formal full-length portrait)
Dorothy as a child with a large doll (informal photo)
Dorothy as a child (another formal full-length portrait, slightly older then first one)
Dorothy with her mother, Lake Winona Matthews (formal portrait, head and shoulders of both)
Dorothy wearing cloche hat and string of pearls (head and shoulders) (color)
Many others...

Note: Dorothy recalled hearing a tale that one of her father's relatives was a Pony Express rider in the 1800s and he rode through hostile Indian territory for 3 days and 3 nights stopping only to change horses to save a man from hanging in Oklahoma Territory; he was supposed to have arrived only 10 minutes before the hanging was to have taken place.

Dorothy married Doyle BROWN, son of Sherman W. BROWN and Mary CHAPLIN, about 1925. (Doyle BROWN was born about 1902 in Iowa.)

Dorothy next married Clifford Destin McQUIE, son of Alexander Frederick McQUIE and Martha Ann LONG, on February 19, 1937. (Clifford Destin McQUIE was born on July 5, 1901 in Minburn, Dallas County, Iowa, died in 1966 in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa and was buried in Brethren Cemetery, Dallas Center, Dallas County, Iowa.)