CLEVENGER, Dorine Vawter, 97, of Valrico passed quietly January 10, 2012. Born August 17, 1914 to Theodore and Georgie Lorene Vawter in Mayotown, Texas, she is preceded in death by her husband of 65 years, Willie; and daughter, Sylvia Crispin. Dorine is survived by her son, LTC (USAR, RET) Gary Clevenger; and son-in-law, Andre A. Crispin. A seamstress by vocation, she worked during World War II at Ellington Field’s hospital near Houston, where she lived her adult life, until moving to Florida in 1989. “Pushaverance” was the word Dorine coined for dogged determination under difficult conditions which she overcame throughout her long life from the cotton fields of East Texas to her flower beds at her Valrico home.
