Dora Belle Stevenson

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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.
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Family/Spouse: Broch Bond. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Glenn Perkins. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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