Dorothy Elizabeth Reese, GW#215

Dorothy was born on 10 May 1922 in Scranton, Pa., to Morgan and Mary (Klinger) Reese.  From an obituary posted on Find-a-grave for Dorothy, we discover that Dorothy attended the John James Audubon School. From 1948-1963, she worked at the Union Gospel Press, then later at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Scranton, Pa.  In the 1940 census it is stated that she is still living with her parents and that she had only seven years of schooling.  From the 14 June 1952 issue of the Gospel Herald, it is reported that Dorothy learned of the Gospel Worker Society from a visit of some Gospel Workers to Mizpah Grove Camp Meeting in 1948.  By October of that year she was in Cleveland, Ohio, working at the Union Gospel Press.  Dorothy died on 12 July 2004 according to the Social Security Death Index (the obituary on find-a-grave says 18 June).  She is buried in Fairview Memorial Park in Scranton, Pa.