WEATHERFORD, Okla. --- Dorothy Scholl Armold, 87, formerly of Chapman, Kan., died Saturday, Sept. 16, 2000, at her daughter's home in Weatherford, Okla.
Mrs. Armold was a nurse.
She was born April 13, 1913, in Shamrock, Mo., the daughter of Milton and Carrie Cobb Scholl. She studied nursing at Independence Hospital and Sanitarium in Independence, Mo., and then worked as a nurse in San Francisco. She joined the Army in 1940 and served in the Philippine Islands at Manila, Bataan and Corregidor. She was interned as a POW at Santo Tomas, Manila, until February 1945. She was discharged in March 1946 at the rank of first lieutenant. She managed the Chapman Theater with her husband and later worked as a nurse for Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center in Topeka from 1973 until 1980, when she retired. She moved to Weatherford, Okla., in 1995.
She married Harold Armold, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, on Nov. 1, 1945. He preceded her in death.
Survivors include three sons, Harold Armold II, Baltimore, Md., Edward Armold, Colorado, and Norman Armold, Topeka, Kan.; a daughter, Carolyn Torrence, Weatherford, Okla., and two grandchildren.
Graveside services and internment will be conducted at 3 p.m. today at the Indian Hill Cemetery, Chapman, Kan. Military honors will be presented by a Fort Riley Honor Guard. Londeen Funeral Chapel, Chapman, is in charge of graveside service arrangements.
The family suggests memorials to the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation, sent in care of Londeen Funeral Chapel, Box 429, Chapman, Kan., 67431.
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