She graduated from Murphy High School, in Mobile, Alabama where she had been a member of the National Honor Society.  She was the fastest typist in her senior class.  After graduation, she worked as a secretary to Mr. Papadeas at Malbis Bakery.

In 1941, she went to work for Harry Hardy Smith of the very successful law firm of Smith, Hand, and Arendall.

Active at Broad Street Presbyterian Church and as an adult she served as a Sunday school teacher, superintendent of the Junior Department and Girl Scout Leader.  Her mother taught her to play the piano and loved tennis, swimming, bicycling and skating.

She attended parties and social events on the beach in Daphne, evenings out with friends and had money to spend byway of the good job…life was good. But the world was unstable with Germany attacking its neighbors and Japan doing the same.

Marie married and her husband, Holcombe Lammon, enlisted as a Merchant Marine. Holcomb had a brother who married a girl from Lucedale Mississippi named Mary Davis. Mary had a brother, Ray Davis (the one and only) who was home on leave from the Army Air Corps. Surely with some degree of scheming (of which Marie was to be famous) Mary and her brother Ray went to Mobile and he met Dorothy. Our world will be forever indebted to the schemers as that rather quickly lead to Ray and Dorothy’s marriage at Broad St. Presbyterian Church.

In little over a year, following Japan’s December 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. entered the war in the Pacific and in Europe.

In January 1944 she took a Nurses Aid course and worked at the hospital two nights a week to help in the war effort.

She and Ray were married on April 28, 1945 just before the war with Germany ended in Europe and with Japan in the Pacific.