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DOBSON
Nellie Bell (Relyea) Dobson
BUS CRASH HURTS KILL WOMAN - SCHOOL BOY VICTIM NEAR DEATH, SAY PHYSICIANS
Mrs. Nellie Dobson, 49, of Dixon, late last night succumbed to injuries suffered when the automobile in which she was riding crashed into a skidding stage south of the Putah creek bridge on the Dixon highway Sunday. At the same time physicians at the Woodland Clinic hospital announced that Lester McCann, 16, Dixon High school boy, victim of the same accident, is near death. Mrs. Dobson’s right leg was nearly severed and her left leg crushed in the crash. McCann has a fractured skull. Charles H. Daley, driver of the car, and his wife, suffered only minor hurts, and their condition is reported as satisfactory. Daley’s car struck the rear of the stage after the heavier vehicle, approaching from the opposite direction, had skidded broadside across the road in an attempt to evade another car. Relatives of the four victims indicated today that legal action seeking damages from the transit company would result from the collision. It is expected that first steps in the suit will be taken in a short time. Mrs. Dobson’s body was taken to Dixon this morning by Milton Carpenter, Dixon funeral director, and the funeral services will be held at 10 o’clock Thursday morning. Interment will be in Galt cemetery. The woman was a native of Michigan, and came to Dixon eight years ago. No criminal action against John Casinelli, driver of the bus, is contemplated, according to the Solano County sheriff’s office.
(Dated 25 January 1928)
MRS. DOBSON LOSES LIFE IN AUTO-STAGE COLLISION
Lester McCann’s Condition More Hopeful–Fever Less, Mind is Returning
Mrs. James Dobson was unable to survive the terrible injuries she received in the automobile accident on Sunday afternoon and passed away at the hospital at 4:00 Tuesday morning. Lester McCann, unconscious from concussion of the brain, has been hovering on the edge of the beyond through the week. The doctors feared the worst and on Tuesday said that he would not recover. His fever rose to 106. During the night, tho, it went down a point, and on Wednesday went down two or three points and there were moments when he seemed to be regaining his mind. By evening he was able to say, “Hello, Mother.” Up to going to press, his condition is much more hopeful. Charles Dailey, with broken ribs and a minor cut or two, is resting easy at the hospital.
Mrs. Dailey returned to her home in Dixon on Tuesday. The accident occurred early Sunday afternoon while the Dailey’s, Ben King and family and Mrs. Peacock and family in their cars were on the way to Sacramento to attend a Christian Science lecture. Mrs. Dobson and Lester McCann rode in the Dailey car as guests, Lester in the front seat and Mrs. Dobson on the right hand side in the rear. According to Dailey, he was driving less than 30 miles an hour because of the slippery condition of the roadway and, when 300 yards this side of the Putah creek bridge, saw a motor stage coming from Sacramento way turn out for the purpose of passing three cars ahead of him. He could not make it, so applied the brakes to drop back. The stage skidded around to the driver’s left directly across the Dailey car’s right of way. Daily had no chance to pass. The front part of the big stage was over the east edge of the highway toward the ditch. He could not pass to the left of the stage because of an oncoming car from the north. The only thing that he could do in the twenty-five feet at his disposal was to crash the stage, which he struck on the right rear wheel. The result of the crash was serious in the extreme. The impact was such that Mrs. Dobson, a heavy woman, and Mrs. Daily were thrown so hard against the back of the front seat of the Willys-Knight that it was bent V-shape and jammed forward. Mrs. Dobson was taken from the car in a most deplorable condition. Blood was gushing from her right leg and both seemed to be broken. Just below the right knee and toward the back the flesh was gashed to the bone. Some one applied a tourniquet to try and staunch the blood flow until a doctor arrived. It was not quite tight enough and Dr. Stolle applied another when he arrived. He had her placed in the car of Mrs. Peacock and taken to Woodland. Here it was found that her knees had been dislocated, bone driven over bone, no bones were broken, and at no time was she unconscious, and suffered much. Lester was part way through the windshield and jammed up against the cowl. He was taken out of the car badly bleeding from cuts on the scalp, across the face, arms and left leg. The knee of the left leg was so badly damaged that the leg may be permanently stiff. Neither Dr. Floreth, Mrs. Stolle, who was assisting him, nor the Dixon persons, recognized the injured boy. They believed him to be some stranger. When he was brought down stairs to the ambulance Chas. Kirby noted a resemblance to Lester and upon looking into his pockets ascertained his identity. Chas. Dailey and wife were taken to Woodland by Doctor Parsons. Neither were seriously injured. Mr. Dailey had two ribs broken and cuts on his neck and face. Mrs. Dailey had facial cuts. It was thought her nose had been broken, but it proved to be a lesser injury. That Mr. Dailey did not fare worse seems strange. He was driving and the back of the front seat was forced to within six inches of the steering wheel, the rim of which was broken off, leaving two projecting ribs of the wheel. The stage was driven by a Sacramento man named McCord, a mechanic for the company who had been sent with the empty stage to a point near Vacaville to pick up passengers from a stage which had become incapacitated. The stage was not greatly damaged and able to run into a Dixon garage after being straightened out by a tow car. Neither the stage not the automobile overturned. Dr. Stolle, on the way to the accident, was forced off the highway and his car slid into the ditch without overturning nor causing any injury. Carried Liability Insurance. Mr. Dailey had liability insurance of $10, 000 a person for two persons, a total of $20, 000. He had collision insurance on his car. The stage company carries its own insurance, like the railroads, setting aside a certain percentage of earnings to take care of its damages. Funeral Services Mrs. Dobson. Mrs. Dobson was 49 years of age. She was born in Michigan. Her home was in Idaho and it was in that state that she became the bride of James Dobson. Eight years ago they came from Vallejo to Dixon, Mr. Dobson going into the employ of the late A.F. Shangraw in the meat business. After services at the United Church yesterday forenoon the body was taken to Galt for interment. Mr. Dobson’s parents live at Galt, which was his home town. Besides her husband, Mrs. Dobson leaves a daughter, twelve, two sisters, Mrs. Bordes of Grimes and Mrs. Bankus of Taylorsville, a brother and a half brother in Idaho, and her father, A. Relyea, who came from Idaho at Christmas to spend the winter in California. The funeral was largely attended by Dixon people, who deeply sympathize with the father and daughter, so suddenly bereft of a devoted and kindly wife and mother.
(Dated 26 January 1928)
DODDS
Vema Lee Dodds
Vema Lee Dodds died in Lindsay on Thursday, May 1, 2003, at age 89.
Born Nov. 23, 1913, in DeQueen, Ark., Ms. Dodds had resided in Woodland for 20 years. She was a homemaker for 25 years. She attended First Baptist Church in Woodland.
Survivors include her daughter, Billie Marrs of Kerman; son, Sonny Dodds of Woodland; sisters, Josephine Hopkins of Quinlan, Texas, Peggy Spann of Mineola, Texas, and Faye Spann of Texas; brothers, JD McKinney of Idalou, Texas, and Book McKinney of Dallas, Texas; 23 grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren; and great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Omar Dodds, in 1984.
Arrangements are under the direction of Myers Funeral Service of Porterville.
Services: Chapel service at 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 6, at Myers Chapel of Porterville. Burial will be at Monument Hill Memorial Park, Woodland.
DOEHNE
Ned Doehne
Ned Doehne died April 19, 2001, after suffering a month of unrelenting depression. A resident of Roseville, he was born in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1960 and raised in Woodland.
He went on to graduate from UC Los Angeles in 1978 with a degree in music history, becoming an accomplished musician and oboe soloist. He accepted a management position with the Sacramento Symphony, where he met his wife, also an oboist, and later worked for the Nashville, Tenn., Symphony. For the past 13 years, he has been employed by USAA Insurance in Sacramento.
He was a loving and engaged parent and an intuitive teacher. He pursued many activities with great enthusiasm, and was an active member of the Auburn Ski Club, a marathon runner, nationally ranked table tennis player and mountain biker. He was a volunteer in his children's schools, and a board member and committed participant in the Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento. He took pleasure in travel and new adventures.
He is survived by his wife of 18 years, Carol Perkinson Doehne; daughter Jessica, 13, and son Matthew, 11; parents, Edward and Audrey Doehne of Woodland; brother, Eric and his wife, Anne, of South Pasadena; and mother-in-law, Rosa Lee Perkinson, of St. Louis, Mo.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento, 2425 Sierra Blvd., Sacramento. For directions, visit www.uuss.org or contact the church at (916) 483-9283. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests a donation to the Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento memorial fund or to the charity of the donor's choice.
DOERING
George John Doering, Jr.
George John Doering, Jr., died on Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at Woodland Memorial Hospital. He was 51 years old.
Mr. Doering had been a resident of the community his entire life. He was born in Woodland on Feb. 28, 1952, and spent 20 years in farming before moving into retail for the past seven years.
Mr. Doering is survived by his father, George John Doering Sr.; daughters, Kelly Poynor and Megan Doering; and son son, Matthew Doering. He was preceded in death by his wife, Susan Doering; and his mother, Gladys Knight.
Memorials may be sent to the Woodland Memorial Hospital Intensive Care Unit.
Kraft Bros. Funeral Directors of Woodland assisted with arrangements.
Services: A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m., Friday, July 25, at Woodland Bible Church, 433 California St. A private family service is scheduled at a later date. There will be no visitation.
DOGALI
John Emilio Dogali
John Emilio Dogali died at Alderson Convalescent Hospital, Woodland Sunday, Sept. 21, 2003, at age 84.
Born Aug. 27, 1919, in Oakland, Mr. Dogali had been a Yolo County resident for four years. He graduated from Oakland Tech. High School and then served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and was stationed in Guam. He was a member of the machinist union for 40 years before his retirement. Previously he had lived in Williams.
Survivors include his wife, Lucia (Giaccone) Dogali of Woodland; daughters, Sandra White also of Woodland, Paulette Moss and husband Roland of Danville; and son, William Dogali of Sacramento; seven grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, Enrico and Mary (Isola) Dogali.
The family requests memorials be directed to Cancer Society of Northern California. Arrangements are under the direction of Kraft Bros. Funeral Directors of Woodland.
Services: A funeral service is scheduled at 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, at Kraft Bros. Chapel, 175 Second St., Woodland. Burial will be at Woodland Cemetery, with a military honors at 11 a.m.
DOLAN
Leila Isabelle Dolan
Isabelle Dolan passed away at her Woodland home at the age of 93, on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005. She was born in Davisville (now Davis), on Nov. 16, 1911 to Carroll Martin and Leila May (Baylis) Ray. She was a Yolo County resident for 79 years, having spent her early married life in Oregon.
Isabelle was a 1927 graduate of Woodland High School and worked as a legal secretary for 26 years following her return to Yolo County. She was a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, the Knights Landing Bridge Club, Order of Eastern Star, the Delta Theta Tau and the Yolo County Historical Society. She enjoyed day trips to Cache Creek, knitting, reading and was a long-standing supporter the Woodland Opera House, where she looked forward to each new season. A natural storyteller with an excellent memory, she enjoyed writing and telling stories of her family's life in California before the Gold Rush and her own childhood in then rural Davisville. Isabelle was widely traveled, and appreciated China, Ireland, Great Britain and all of the United States, especially the Northwest was particularly pleasing to her. She always looked forward to spending the Christmas holidays with her extensive family, when she would provide the piano accompaniment for the family chorus. A highlight of her lifelong love of the piano was, as a teenager, playing for the "silent movies" at the Varsity Theater in Davis.
Isabelle is survived by her daughters, Celia Scott of Elk Grove, Patricia R. Wheeler of Woodland and Madeline McMurray and husband David of Bayside. Stepdaughters, Charlotte McConnell and husband John of Bakersfield and LaVerne Mayes and husband Ronald of Woodland also survive as do 16 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and 9 great-great-grandchildren. Her husband, Charles O. Dolan, former mayor of Woodland, and her son, Delbert F. Anderson Jr. of Sacramento preceded her in death.
No visitation is scheduled prior to a private family interment ceremony at Knights Landing Cemetery. The family requests memorial donations in Mrs. Dolan's memory be made to Yolo Hospice, P.O. Box 1014, Davis, 95617.
Kraft Bros. Funeral Directors is assisting the family with arrangements.
