Florence Edna Dolby was born on January 18, 1917 in Howe, Oklahoma and passed away on March 11, 2019 in Fresno, CA at the age of 102. Florence was the oldest of seven children. Florence was born to Pearl Florence Helms and John Raymond Sehorn. All of her siblings have passed on; Carl, Judy, Cecil, Vernon, Edie and Charles.
The family moved to Holdenville, Oklahoma when 'Flo' was around six years old. This is where she grew up and spent her teenage years.
In her 20s, she married Frank Dolby, a Navy Seabee. They divorced several years later and she never remarried or had any children of her own. Her nieces and nephews filled that void. She loved every one of them like they were her own.
She began a retail sales career in Oakland, CA where she became a member of the Local 870 Retail Clerks Union. She lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for a number of years before relocating to Fresno, CA to be near her mother. Her extensive millinery and retail sales experience landed her a position with the Veterans Canteen Service within the Veterans Administration with twenty plus years of service.
She would go on to volunteer in the community after her retirement. Her greatest joy, however, was attending Sunday services at the Peoples Church, listening to Brother John's sermon's and serving as a member of the Dorcas Peacemakers, a service ministry of Women's Fellowship. There, she also made needed items for the Rescue Mission and Convalescent Hospital Ministries. She was an excellent seamstress, making many of her own clothes. She could make anything from fancy dishtowels to wedding gowns. Sewing was her passion and her Singer "baby lock" sewing machine was her pride and joy.
