Dorothy Vernon Mullin (1915-2007)
MULLIN, VERNON, MURPHY, LUHMAN, KAUFMAN, MEZERE, VAVERKA, WEHRHEIM
Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 1/18/2007 at 08:04:58
THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Tuesday, January 16, 2007.
Dorothy Vernon Mullin
Aug. 6, 1915-Jan. 13, 2007Dr. Dorothy Vernon Mullin, D.O., 91, died Saturday, Jan. 13, at Friendship Haven in Fort Dodge. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Jewell. Burial will follow in Homewood Cemetery in Ellsworth. A memorial service will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17, at Celebration Center of Friendship Haven in Fort Dodge.
Dorothy Eleanor Vernon was born Aug. 6, 1915, in Merrill, to Dr. Frederick George Vernon, M.D., and Mary Alice (Murphy) Vernon. She grew up in the Merrill area, attending school in Le Mars and Mount Saint Mary Academy in Cherokee. She attended junior college in Cherokee and graduated from Drake University. She married Robert Waldo Mullin of Des Moines Sept. 28, 1940, at Saint Peter and Paul Church near Gilbert. While attending Drake, she worked in the Ordinance Plant in Ankeny during World War II. On Aug. 6, 1945, Dorothy entered Des Moines University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences; that same day was her 30th birthday, her husband returned from the war and the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She graduated from Des Moines University in 1948, and then interned at Wilden Osteopathic Hospital in Des Moines. She joined her father's practice in 1950 at the Jewell Health Clinic in Jewell and opened an office in Ellsworth in 1952. She retired from private practice in 1975 in Ellsworth, and was associated with the Story City Memorial Hospital.
She married Otto F. Luhman at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Jewell in 1978. She then was a staff physician at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Knoxville until 1980. They retired to Yuma, Ariz., from 1980-88 and returned to Dayton from 1988-91. She has resided at Friendship Haven in Fort Dodge since 1991, where she was a member of Corpus Christi Catholic Church.
She was a life member of the American Osteopathic Association, the Iowa State Osteopathic Association, held various offices with the 4th District Osteopathic Society, and was a member of both the state and national Delta Omega Beta Sorority, the women's osteopathic physicians' sorority. She was member of the board of trustees and director of Des Moines University and a member of the Central Osteopathic Study Group. In 1992, she received a Life Service Award from the Iowa Osteopathic Medical Association Officers and Trustees.
She is survived by one son, Edward C. Mullin, of Clive; two grandsons, John E. Mullin, of Dubuque, and Robert E. (Alyson) Mullin, of DePere, Wis.; one stepson, Donald (Katherine) Luhman, of Otho; one stepdaughter, Mary (Lloyd) Kaufman, of Fort Dodge; numerous step grandchildren and step great-grandchildren; three sisters, Frances Mezere, of LaHabra, Calif., Mary Helen VaVerka, of Santa Monica, Calif., and Viola Jean Wehrheim, of Vincennes, Ind.; and nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Robert; her husband, Otto; one brother, Major Frederick A. Vernon, USMC, retired; and two stepsons, Bruce Luhman and Larry Luhman.
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