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Dorothy Edna Meckfessel received a three-year registered nurse's diploma from the Evangelical Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing in St. Louis, Missouri on Sept. 7, 1950. She was accepted and attended the University of Missouri Medical School in 1956, a feat unheard of for a female in the 1950s.

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Dorothy Edna Meckfessel of Cottonwood was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on Dec. 14, 1926, to Frederick and Pauline nee Schroeder Meckfessel. The name Meckfessel was derived from Meckvessel in the state of Mecklenberg in Germany, located in former Prussia.

January 30, 2014
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