Dorothy Stites Lauffenburger Hyde (1924-2019) Warren High School class of 1943

Source:  Warren Times Observer

1943 Dragon yearbook

Dorothy's high-school activities:

Bookkeeping Club (2); Carinval (4); Junior Shortland Club (3); Science Club (4); Stenographers' Club (3).

1967 Warren City Directory

• Lauffenburger Dorothy Mrs r734 Cobham Park rd (shown below)
• Lauffenburger W E emp Sylvania r734 Cobham Park rd
• Stites Edw (F Gertrude) atndt Warren State Hospital h19 Plum

 1983 Warren City Directory

• Stites Edw retd h19 Plum St

The popularity of Dorothy is graphed here.  Let's take a look at son Ward.

Source:  Social Security Administration

Ward was a steady, clearly unspectacular, if slowly declining performer into the early 1960s  He peaked early in the 20th century -- at #281 in 1902.  A boost from #589 in 1957 to #495 to 1958 can be attributed to this popular sitcom.

Other members of the class of '43 (14 women, 8 men):
2019
Betty Nelson Casey.  (4/12/2019)
Dorothy Bimber Farrell.  (4/2/2019)
Marguerite Mader Lasher.  (3/20/2019)

2018
Lillian Fish Dunn.  (11/6/2018)
Mary Denardi Walker.  (7/18/2018)
John Imperial.  (4/4/2018)
Francis Pesko.  (2/8/2018)

2017
William Nuhfer.  (10/26/2017)
Martha Rasmussen Lewis.  (6/17/2017)
Gloria York Salapek.  (6/10/2017)
Louis Rizzardi.  (2/11/2017)

2016
Virginia Anderson Thompson.  (10/17/2016)
Pauline Smith VanVolkinburg.  (8/27/2016)
Joyce Anderson Clark.  (8/24/2016)
Robert Johnson.  (3/31/2016)

2015
Goldie Gelotte Hecei. (12/21/2015)
John Swick.  (11/29/2015)
William Weidert.  (10/16/2015)
Maxine Retterer Young.  (8/15/2015)

Donald Conaway, Jr.  (8/13/2015)
Anne Smith Rossey.  (5/8/2015)
Doris Stevenson Barirde.  (3/31/2015)

2014
Mildred Kahle Glotz.  (9/13/2014)

Robert Dietsch.  (9/8/2014)

Anna Mae Olson Howe.  (9/2/2014)

Lois Bogart Niederer.  (5/3/2014)

2013

Verna Mack Swanson.  (12/22/2013)