Oldest living Marine, who joined after Pearl Harbor attack, dies at age 107
January 14, 2021 Staff Writer 0
Théoden Janes
The Charlotte Observer
Jan. 14—Dorothy “Dot†Cole, who enlisted as one of the earliest female Marine reservists in response to the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor and was widely celebrated around her birthday in September as the country’s oldest living Marine, died of a heart attack last Thursday at her daughter’s home in Kannapolis. She was 107.
Her death was confirmed by her only child, Beth Kluttz, 67, who had moved her mother into her home almost 20 years ago.
Cole (who at the time was still named Dorothy Schmidt, having not yet been married) was 28 years old when she boarded a bus in her hometown of Warren, Pennsylvania, for the 150-mile trip to Pittsburgh, where she hoped to volunteer for the Navy.
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