Dolores Theobald Mohler

Tuesday, April 1, 2003

Dolores Theobald Mohler passed away peacefully at her home in Colorado Springs, Colo., the morning of Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at the age of 91. She had been living in Colorado Springs since the late spring of 2000. Dolores was born in Yuma, Colo., on Sept. 8, 1911. Her father, George Theobald, was a carpenter as well as a millwright originally from Wisconsin. Her mother Bertha Schempp Theobald was a graduate nurse from Illinois. When Dolores was nine months old, her family moved to Wauneta where her father built a mill and also homes. When she was eleven, the mill caught fire and subsequently, her father passed away. At that point, she and her younger brother, Dale, tried to help their mother make ends meet by various chores such as babysitting, delivering meat and selling strawberries. Their mother converted the house into a "tourist home" since there was no hotel from the nearest town 20 miles away to the railroad center 50 miles to the east. During the summers, traveling salesmen and Chautauqua entertainers stayed at the house, while in the winter the family boarded schoolteachers.

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