Former Orient resident Dorothy L. (Rohr) Fisher passed away on Jan. 26, 2021, from contracting pneumonia at age 95.
Dorothy was born in the Bronx on Jan 14, 1926. She attended P.S. 57, Roosevelt High School and William Howard Taft High School, graduating in 1943. She started working for the New York Telephone Co. She loved to roller skate and she met and married Alfred H. Watson in 1947; they moved to Bergenfield, N.J.
She stopped working when her first child, Dorothy Anne, was born, in 1948; her second child, Donna J., was born in 1954 and their third child, Alfred H. Jr., was born in 1956. In 1963 their 16-year marriage ended in divorce. Dorothy took the children and moved to Lindenhurst, N.Y., and returned to the telephone company in Bay Shore. She worked in the information bureau until 1970, when she was promoted and became the first female deskman in the company’s repair bureau.