Doris was the only child from the marriage of Charles William 'C.W.' and Portia C.(Fletcher) Littleton. She was a life-long native of Bluemont, in Loudoun County, VA. and after going to school there during her adolescence, Doris attended ROUND HILL HIGH SCHOOL. There some four years later, she was recognized and honored as the 1936 Class Valedictorian.
After graduating from high school, she then pursued and subsequently completed a 2-year degree program from STRAYERS BUSINESS COLLEGE in Washington, D.C. The Littleton family was quite honored to have the first "college graduate' one of their own immediate family lineage. It was also while she was living in Washington, D.C. that Doris evidently met her future husband, Joshua C. 'Jake' Stickles--who also just happened to be from Bluemont, VA area.
Doris and Jake, after a short courtship, were married on 21 Aug 1937 in Washington, D.C. where they were both working at the time. After a couple of years, she and Jake bought their first and only house on Roosevelt Street circa 1939 in Arlington, VA--where they lived happily together the remaining years of their lives. And certainly, that's when they were the happiest--whenever they were together.
Doris first began working (circa 1940) at the Navy Department there in Arlington just shortly prior to the purchase of their first house--and she continued to work there until the birth of her first child Larry, and the return of her husband from the U.S. Army in 1944. Shortly after Jake's discharge from the Army and his return to northern Virginia, Doris then found her real "calling" as a full-time Mom, 'Domestic Engineer, having and then raising two sons--Larry and Wayne.
Upon the death of her lover and best friend Jake in January 1975, she began experiencing any number of health issues--and her personality also began to change. In the early 1990's it was determined by her doctors that she could no longer live by herself, so arrangements were made for her to come and live with her oldest son Larry and his wife Barbara, in Athens, AL.
Doris, the families 'Grand Matriarch' died at age 84 of complications from Alzheimer's disease in October 2003--at a nursing home in Athens, Alabama.
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After graduating from high school, she then pursued and subsequently completed a 2-year degree program from STRAYERS BUSINESS COLLEGE in Washington, D.C. The Littleton family was quite honored to have the first "college graduate' one of their own immediate family lineage. It was also while she was living in Washington, D.C. that Doris evidently met her future husband, Joshua C. 'Jake' Stickles--who also just happened to be from Bluemont, VA area.
Doris and Jake, after a short courtship, were married on 21 Aug 1937 in Washington, D.C. where they were both working at the time. After a couple of years, she and Jake bought their first and only house on Roosevelt Street circa 1939 in Arlington, VA--where they lived happily together the remaining years of their lives. And certainly, that's when they were the happiest--whenever they were together.
Doris first began working (circa 1940) at the Navy Department there in Arlington just shortly prior to the purchase of their first house--and she continued to work there until the birth of her first child Larry, and the return of her husband from the U.S. Army in 1944. Shortly after Jake's discharge from the Army and his return to northern Virginia, Doris then found her real "calling" as a full-time Mom, 'Domestic Engineer, having and then raising two sons--Larry and Wayne.
Upon the death of her lover and best friend Jake in January 1975, she began experiencing any number of health issues--and her personality also began to change. In the early 1990's it was determined by her doctors that she could no longer live by herself, so arrangements were made for her to come and live with her oldest son Larry and his wife Barbara, in Athens, AL.
Doris, the families 'Grand Matriarch' died at age 84 of complications from Alzheimer's disease in October 2003--at a nursing home in Athens, Alabama.
FMI: [email protected]
Doris was the only child from the marriage of Charles William 'C.W.' and Portia C.(Fletcher) Littleton. She was a life-long native of Bluemont, in Loudoun County, VA. and after going to school there during her adolescence, Doris attended ROUND HILL HIGH SCHOOL. There some four years later, she was recognized and honored as the 1936 Class Valedictorian.
After graduating from high school, she then pursued and subsequently completed a 2-year degree program from STRAYERS BUSINESS COLLEGE in Washington, D.C. The Littleton family was quite honored to have the first "college graduate' one of their own immediate family lineage. It was also while she was living in Washington, D.C. that Doris evidently met her future husband, Joshua C. 'Jake' Stickles--who also just happened to be from Bluemont, VA area.
Doris and Jake, after a short courtship, were married on 21 Aug 1937 in Washington, D.C. where they were both working at the time. After a couple of years, she and Jake bought their first and only house on Roosevelt Street circa 1939 in Arlington, VA--where they lived happily together the remaining years of their lives. And certainly, that's when they were the happiest--whenever they were together.
Doris first began working (circa 1940) at the Navy Department there in Arlington just shortly prior to the purchase of their first house--and she continued to work there until the birth of her first child Larry, and the return of her husband from the U.S. Army in 1944. Shortly after Jake's discharge from the Army and his return to northern Virginia, Doris then found her real "calling" as a full-time Mom, 'Domestic Engineer, having and then raising two sons--Larry and Wayne.
Upon the death of her lover and best friend Jake in January 1975, she began experiencing any number of health issues--and her personality also began to change. In the early 1990's it was determined by her doctors that she could no longer live by herself, so arrangements were made for her to come and live with her oldest son Larry and his wife Barbara, in Athens, AL.
Doris, the families 'Grand Matriarch' died at age 84 of complications from Alzheimer's disease in October 2003--at a nursing home in Athens, Alabama.
FMI: [email protected]
After graduating from high school, she then pursued and subsequently completed a 2-year degree program from STRAYERS BUSINESS COLLEGE in Washington, D.C. The Littleton family was quite honored to have the first "college graduate' one of their own immediate family lineage. It was also while she was living in Washington, D.C. that Doris evidently met her future husband, Joshua C. 'Jake' Stickles--who also just happened to be from Bluemont, VA area.
Doris and Jake, after a short courtship, were married on 21 Aug 1937 in Washington, D.C. where they were both working at the time. After a couple of years, she and Jake bought their first and only house on Roosevelt Street circa 1939 in Arlington, VA--where they lived happily together the remaining years of their lives. And certainly, that's when they were the happiest--whenever they were together.
Doris first began working (circa 1940) at the Navy Department there in Arlington just shortly prior to the purchase of their first house--and she continued to work there until the birth of her first child Larry, and the return of her husband from the U.S. Army in 1944. Shortly after Jake's discharge from the Army and his return to northern Virginia, Doris then found her real "calling" as a full-time Mom, 'Domestic Engineer, having and then raising two sons--Larry and Wayne.
Upon the death of her lover and best friend Jake in January 1975, she began experiencing any number of health issues--and her personality also began to change. In the early 1990's it was determined by her doctors that she could no longer live by herself, so arrangements were made for her to come and live with her oldest son Larry and his wife Barbara, in Athens, AL.
Doris, the families 'Grand Matriarch' died at age 84 of complications from Alzheimer's disease in October 2003--at a nursing home in Athens, Alabama.
FMI: [email protected]
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