San Joaquin County CA Archives Obituaries.....McConnell, Dorothy D. Dodson Vinciale March 11, 2006 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: K T bluewolf@onemain.com March 23, 2006, 11:34 pm The Tracy Press Dorothy D. Dodson Vinciale McConnell June 7, 1912 — March 11, 2006 Services will be Friday for Dorothy D. Dodson Vinciale McConnell, 93, who died Saturday in a Hanford convalescent center. Mrs. McConnell and her twin sister, Doris, were born at home on McCall Avenue in the outskirts of Selma. Her grandparents, William and Emeline Dodson, had moved to Selma from Cedarville in Modoc County in 1891, bringing most of their family with them. Her grandparents had arrived in California by covered wagon in 1861. In Cedarville they farmed, logged and caught wild horses. They then drove to Fresno where they sold the horses and bought land. Mrs. McConnell graduated from Selma High School in 1930 and then helped finance her college education at Whittier College by cutting fruit in the nearby canning plants and working as a maid in Whittier. She graduated in 1934 in the same class as Richard M. Nixon. She taught school in Stratford in the late ’30s, moved to Monterey, and then met and married Patrick J. Vinciale, who was stationed at the Presidio in the 11th Cavalry. At that time, the 11th Cavalry still rode horses. After World War II started, Sgt. Vinciale, who didn’t want to travel in tanks, transferred to the military police. He was stationed in Fresno and Turlock the spring and summer of 1942 and then sent to Mt. Vernon, Ill., and Tacoma, Wash. At the end of the war, he was sent to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, and she and her daughter, Doreen, settled in Stratford where she taught from 1945 to 1953. In 1953, Master Sgt. Vinciale was stationed in Murnan Germany, and they joined him there. In 1956, the Vinciales returned from Germany accompanied by Steven, their son. They settled in Tracy where her husband worked at Deuel Vocational Institution after his retirement from the Army. He died in September 1965. She taught school again from 1958 to 1967 in Tracy and then Stockton. In 1967, she married Charles McConnell from Santa Clara, and she and Steve moved to Santa Clara. Mr. McConnell died in 1985. She lived with her son and his family until 1995, and then her granddaughter, Karen, until 1996, when she and her daughter moved to Lemoore. She was preceded in death by her parents, James Calaway and Elizabeth Jane “Jenny” Dodson; her sisters, Julia McConnell, Anita Stanley, Doris Dustin Del Carlo; and her brother, Homer Calaway Dodson, and his wife, Leona Jones Dodson. She is survived by her daughter, Jimsy Doreen Overstreet; grandchildren, Stephen T. Vinciale, and his wife, Sandy; Claire L. McKean, Janet K. Pesicka, Karen D. Call, Lynne R. Jordan and Patricia J. Drooker nee Overstreet, and Jody A. Martinez and Nicole D. nee Vinciale, Stephen Roger Vinciale; 17 great- grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren. Friday’s services will begin at 9 a.m. at Phipps-Dale Funeral Chapel, 420 W. D St., in Lemoore. Visitation will be observed from 8 to 9 a.m. at the chapel that same day. Interment will begin at 2 p.m. in Tracy Cemetery. Published on Thursday, March 16, 2006, in the Tracy Press. Additional Comments: Volunteer submission - No relation to the deceased. No other information available from submitter. Posted with permission from The Tracy Press http://www.tracypress.com/obituaries/ File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ca/sanjoaquin/obits/m/mcconnel2334gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb