Dora Belle Stevenson

1902 -

• Name	Dora Belle Stevenson
  Born	1902
  Gender	Female
  Reference Number	3703
  Person ID	I3703	Brownlow
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2022

  
  

  Father	William A Stevenson,   b. 1858,   d. 1907  (Age 49 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Susan Maseltine Yates Yates,   b. 1868,   d. 1942  (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F1425	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Broch Bond
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2022
  Family ID	F1428	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Glenn Perkins
  Children	1. Robert Valdo Perkins  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2022
  Family ID	F1429	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  _______________________________________________________________________ From the Valdo James Smith Research document, The Sudburys of Virginia and Tennessee. DORA BELLE STEVENSON was probably born in Okmulgee, Indian Territory, in 1902, and spent her youth in Oklahoma. She may have lived for a time in Fort Smith, Arkansas, but by 1927, she had apparently married GLENN PERKINS and settled in Yorba Linda, California. Errol Smith remembers Dora as a strong personality, who had spent some time in the Women's Army Corps, attaining the rank of Sergeant. Errol also recalls that she was a "great reader", and that at some point as a young woman she became involved with a film company and acted the part of a heroine in an early Hollywood movie. Dora's niece, Shirley Travis, has the following reminiscences: Aunt Dora joined the WACs and was among the first contingent of women to train at Fort Des Moines. Even though she spent a good part of this time in the hospital with heart trouble, I believe from talking with her when she was at Fort Des Moines and later when I visited her in California, that this was probably the happiest time of her adult life until she met and married her second husband, BROACH BOND, a thoroughly good and likeable man. _______________________________________________________________________