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Dorothy Southall

Virgina woman who was born before World War I ended and is ‘too healthy’ for hospice turns 106

Virgina woman who was born before World War I ended and is ‘too healthy’ for hospice turns 106

Dorothy Southall just celebrated her 106th birthday, a year after she was released from hospice because she was considered “too healthy” to meet the conditions. WTKR reports that Southall was born on September 5, 1918, in Whaleyville, a small neighborhood in Suffolk, two years before women were granted the right to vote and two months…

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