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A widow has been reunited with her engagement ring 30 years after it was stolen, thanks to a metal detectorist who found it on a Scottish beach. George Taylor discovered the jewellery, belonging to Dorothy Nicoll, just four inches below the surface of the sand in Carnoustie. He then turned detective, using the 1963 date and initials engraved inside the ring to track down the 82-year-old, from Broughty Ferry. He managed, with help from friend Liz Neish, to find records of her wedding to Andrew Nicoll that matched. A search through Facebook led to Dorothy s daughter Hilary and the ring - taken in a raid at the home shared with late husband Andrew in 1987 - was returned. ....
Meet Dot Gorrie, Northland s most prolific council meeting attendee 22 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 7 minutes to read Kaipara s Dot Gorrie - Northland s most prolific council meeting attendee. Photo / Susan Botting Dorothy (Dot) Gorrie reckons she is not addicted to attending council meetings. But she has been to about 60 in the past three decades, is now seeing Kaipara District Council s sixth mayor in action and has watched eight different council elections come and go, with new councillor line-ups each time. The septuagenarian is Northland s most prolific council meeting attendee, going to almost all the local Kaipara District Council (KDC) s Dargaville-based meetings. It s about keeping informed, Gorrie said. A lot of people complain about councils but don t take the time to find out what s going on. ....
Margaret Alberta (Welton) Whitehead, 94, passed away on Dec. 28, 2020, at the Memory Care unit of Edgewood Vista in Virginia, Minn. Margaret was born on Aug. 17, 1926, on a family vacation in Lacomb, Alberta, Canada. She was brought into the world in a Welton family home. Her older brother Roy was heard to say, âI ve changed 4 tires, I hope I don t have to change her!â After the family purchased a ranch on Pass Creek in Wyoming, which they named the Hat Creek Ranch, they first moved from Franklin, Pa., and then Denver, Colo. She grew up on that vast ranch at the base of beautiful Elk Mountain, about 40 miles east of Rawlins, Wyo. The land was sprawling and never ending. It was there in a one room schoolhouse that her dad had built that she and her two sisters attended daily classes. Her three brothers were either working on the ranch or attending high school in Rawlins; as she and her sisters would, as well. They stayed at a boarding house during the week and rod ....
Oldest living Marine Corps veteran passes away at age 107 January 15 Dorothy (Schmidt) Cole enlisted in the Marine Corps at the age of 29 following the attack on Pearl Harbor. (Marine Corps) The nation’s oldest living Marine veteran died of a heart attack on Jan. 7. Sgt. Dorothy “Dot” (Schmidt) Cole enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1943 after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The 29-year-old initially had attempted to join the Navy two years earlier but was told she didn’t meet their height standards. The Marine Corps recognized Cole, born Sept. 19, 1913, in Warren, Pennsylvania, as the oldest living Marine in 2020 on her 107th birthday. ....