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Laguna Honda Hospital - Dorothy Clancy - The WaveDescription
Every time I moved away, I always came back home," Dorothy says of San Francisco, where she was born on Father's Day in 1954. Despite the tragic death of her father when she was ten, she has a personality as bright as the colorful Mardi Gras beads she wears regularly around her neck. She married at eighteen, lived on Treasure Island with her husband, and has two daughters and one son.
Dorothy has had many jobs. She worked with her brother for years, sharing newspaper routes with him as well as waitressing in the same Mission District restaurant where he cooked. She has kept score in the local bowling alley, where she herself bowled 300, and cared for senior citizens, including her own mother. Now at Laguna Honda, she helps out at the General Store.
She enjoys theater arts and has fond memories of singing and playing the guitar with her girlfriend. Dorothy has been doing art since childhood and explains, "I have to do art. It takes away the pain." Of herself, she says, "I'm still a kid at heart. We've got to maintain our joy; otherwise we're not going to make it."
