New chapter in her life: Ford finds comfort living in Columbus
(World News USA)

Editor`s note: In honor of this being the week the 2020 edition of Columbus Days was scheduled to take place, The Telegram is publishing four profiles of local women named Dorothy tying into what was this year`s Columbus Days` theme, `There`s No Place Like Home,` in honor of the 1939 film `The Wizard of Oz.` A new story will be published each day through the rest of the week. See the previously published story on our website. Dorothy Ford ended up in Columbus similar to how Dorothy Gale in “The Wizard of Oz” ended up in the Land of Oz: By chance. Ford was born in Oakland, Nebraska, and moved around quite a bit growing up – to Arkansas then back to Nebraska to Walthill and Pender. “When I was...