HEPHER, Dorothy Jean
| Service Number: | NF435274 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 September 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia, 17 February 1919 |
| Home Town: | Campbelltown, Campbelltown Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Cancer, Cherrybrook, New South Wales, Australia, 4 April 2013, aged 94 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 5 Sep 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, NF435274 | |
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| 28 Oct 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, NF435274 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Belinda Maiden
Dorothy Jean Hepher (known as Doss to family and friends, and later as Doffy to her great-grandchildren) was born in Campbelltown, NSW, to parents John Charles (Charlie) Hepher and Adele Augusta May (nee Nicholls). Doss was Charlie & Adele's fourth of seven children.
Doss was a beautiful and vivacious child who enjoyed a happy, music-filled home with her parents and siblings. Her father, Charlie, was a WW1 veteran who took up the offer of a soldier's settlement in Campbelltown where he raised chickens. He also sold odds and ends from a cart. Doss' mother, Adele, was kind, a keen talented seamstress, musical, and loving.
Doss met future husband, Morton James Maiden, at a dance in Campbelltown. They married on 12 December 1942 while both were serving in the Army - Doss as a signalwoman. Doss and Mort went on to have four children.
Doss was artistic - she could paint, sew, arrange flowers, draw, create fabulous fancy dress costumes, sing and dance! She was intelligent, despite somewhat limited schooling, and interested in family, community, and current events.
Doss and Mort enjoyed family gatherings, friends, word games (they were fabulous at Scrabble!), playing lawn bowls, and getting involved supporting their local community.
Doss was warm, welcoming, loving, kind, supportive, light hearted, wise, caring, witty, no frills, and compassionate. She was a devoted daughter, sibling, friend, wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She was dearly loved and continues to be sorely missed.
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