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One cold January day on a farm in Virginia... Doris 

Ann Waddell was born a twin to a landowner and 

his wife. But a terrible disease was going around, 

and Doris Ann and her brother caught it. They all 

hoped and prayed the mommy and babies would get 

better. But sadly, the little boy didn't survive. 

Little Doris Ann lived, weighing only a few pounds. 

She was a miracle baby.

On those early mornings in Virginia... Doris Ann 

would go to school. She didn't get there in cars or 

scooters. She took a horse and buggy. That horse 

and buggy were her dream come true until...

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One school morning in small town Virginia... Doris 

Ann rode her horse and buggy to school. But when 

she was done for the day and ready to return 

home, she found that her horse and buggy had run 

away. Little Doris Ann had to walk all the way 

home.

On an afternoon many years later... after she 

graduated high school and finished college, she 

taught in North Carolina for a year or two. She 

had earned a degree in home economics, and was 

able to teach chemistry. But a new special job was 

awaiting her....

During these years after the Great Depression...  

Doris Ann received a new job. The country was 

being remodeled as President Roosevelt wrote the 

New Deal, creating new government jobs for fellow 

Americans. Doris Ann drove with her government 

gas to farms in Virginia, where she would help 

teach farmers' wives how to get the best "bang 

for their buck". 

On one such lovely day in Surrey, Virginia... Doris Ann 

met a sailor from the navy. He was a young man from 

Dallas named William Howard Beasley and he was now 

staying at her same boarding house. The landlady 

thought he was quite the gentleman with his big blue 

eyes and southern charm. When brown-haired, green-

eyed Ann, as she was called, saw him downstairs, she 

said, "So you're from Texas?" And Howard, thinking 

she was so pretty, immediately knew she was 

interested. So...

They began to court. And he asked her to marry 

him. But since he was all the way from Texas, and 

she was from Virginia, she wanted to make sure 

that he was absolutely certain. So she told him, 

"Go back to Texas and see all your old girlfriends. 

And if you still feel the same, I'll marry you." So 

Howard returned back to Dallas, but he didn't 

stay there. He came right back to Virginia... with 

a ring!

They were married on 

June 7 of 1943, and 

everyone in town was 

at the wedding, held 

in the parlor of the 

boarding house. Not a 

doctor, minister, or 

county clerk could be 

found because they 

were all in attendance. 

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