Dorothy Turnbull attended high school in New Orleans. She was a member of a high school sorority, and then after she graduated she went to Newcomb College in New Orleans and joined a sorority there.
It was when she was in her first year of college at Newcomb, that it was announced that the United States had been attacked at Pearl Harbor. Around the same time her mother was diagnosed with cancer.
We did have rationing. All this stuff is going on. My mother, of course, wasn’t a house keeper at the time. She was really bed ridden. So we had help. (Then) my father decided it might be a good idea to bring her down to Miami. A change of climate and everything.
Dorothy stayed behind in New Orleans for a year or so, and then moved to Miami to be with her father and mother.
This photograph of Dorothy’s mother comes from the Dorothy Turnbull Stewart collection.
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