The Ford Family

Nickname	Aunt Do Do
Born	July 4, 1911 Rockford, IL
Died	November 12, 1986 Rockford, IL
Father	Frank Joseph Schrom
Mother	Fannie Bort Schrom
Siblings	Gladys Margaret Ford Frank Joseph Schrom, Jr.

Spouse	William Charles Oakley
Married	1947 Rockford, IL
Children	Joan Frances Olson

Former Spouse	Robert Romaine Kjellgren
Children	Mary Shepherd

Bio
Dorothy Frances Schrom was born when her sister Glady is nearly 5 years old. Then when Dorothy is 5, her little brother Frank is born. We know she graduates from high school with high marks in French, according to her yearbook. She attends college for two years but does not finish.

On August 8th of 1934 she marries Robert Kjellgren, who is five years older than Dorothy and graduated from High School with Glady. (Is that how they met?? Who knows!) Bob is very handsome and works in the Rockford furniture business. He becomes the GM for National Chair and then the VP of the whole company. (His father started the company.) Perhaps it is the hard work, or perhaps it is the curse of the Henderson women (Dorothy's mother was Fannie Henderson and her grandmother was Martha Bort Henderson) who tend to become widows young, but poor Bob dies of liver cancer at the age of 37.

Like her maternal grandmother, Dorothy does not sit idle long. Her daughter Mary tells us that Glady encouraged her to go to Katy Gibbs women's secretarial school. Mary came to stay with her aunt and cousin for about a year while her mother was in school (she still calls it her year of prison). Sometime between 1947-1948 Dorothy is married to a lawyer named William Charles Oakley. They have a child named Joan together a few years later. William dies pretty young - at 58. Dorothy lives on until her death at 75 in Rockford.