After graduating from high school, Dorothy went to National Business College in Roanoke and completed their full course of studies in record time. She then went to work for Roanoke Drug Company, which was eventually absorbed by McKesson & Robbins. Dorothy rose quickly through the ranks and eventually became accountant and office manager, the only woman in the United States to hold that position with McKesson.
For a time in the 1930s she dated Tom Pettyjohn, a police officer from the Lynchburg area who was the brother of two of her good friends.
In December 1961, Dorothy flew to Paris to Join her niece, Patricia Hickin, who was teaching in France for a year, for an automobile trip to Italy over the Christmas holidays. It was the first in a series of many travels out of the county for her.
Tom and Dorothy at Hot Springs
On 11 November 1950, at home in Troutville, Botetourt County, Virginia. almost a month after her forty-seventh birthday, Dorothy married sixty-three-year-old Thomas Herbert Cline, the son of a Lutheran miinister, a widower with one child, a daughter, They honeymooned at the Greenbrrier at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Dorothy took leave from her job with McKesson and considered giving it up altogether.
Dorothy's newly widowed older sister Marie Yokeley soon moved in with them to keep house while Dorothy, reluctant to lose her good retirement benefits, returned to work for McKesson & Robbins in Roanoke. Tom died a few years after their marriage and Marie and Dorothy continued to live together in the Cline house on Maiden Lane in Roanoke.
After Marie's death in 1983, Dorothy moved into an apartment nearby. Within a few years she began to suffer from a series of minor strokes that impaired her mind, and she entered a retirement facility and later a nursing home in Vinton, where she died on 29 January 1994 at the age of ninety-one.[1]
Gravestone for Dorothy Layman Cline, 1903-1994
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Dorothy V Layman Cline
Birth: 18 Oct 1903 Botetourt County, Virginia, USA; Death: 29 Jan 1994 (aged 90) Vinton, Roanoke County, Virginia, USA; Burial: Daleville Cemetery, Daleville, Botetourt County, Virginia, USA. Memorial #: 61633394.
Bio: Roanoke Times, The (VA) - January 30, 1994CLINE, Dorothy Layman, 90, of Roanoke, died Saturday, January 29, 1994, at the Berkshire Health Care Center, Vinton. She was born in Botetourt Co. and was the daughter of the late George W. Layman and Lillie Moomaw Layman and was the widow of Thomas Cline. She was retired from McKesson Corporation as an accountant with 47 years service. She was a graduate of National Business College and was a member of the Central Church of the Brethren, Roanoke. She is survived by one sister, Pauline Prickett, Richmond.
Inscription: wife of T H Cline
Family Members: Parents: George William Layman (1862-1933), Mary Lydia Moomaw Layman (1863-1946); Spouse: Thomas Herbert Cline (1886-1953); Siblings: Louis Moomaw Layman (1893-1916), Marie Lucy Layman Yokeley (1895-1983), Genevieve Layman Kinzie (1897-1993), Pauline Elizabeth Layman Prickett (1899-1996).[2]
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