Dolores Hinckley Stover was born in Manhattan on December 19, 1924, the oldest of ten children. She attended parochial school and then decided to join the United States Marine Corps at the tail end of World War II. 

As she later recalled, “I joined the Marine Corps…in 1945. I did boot camp in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and was then sent to Norfolk, Virginia where I was based.” 

The New York native lived out the rest of her days in the Old Dominion, finding a career in Northern Virginia politics. She rose through the ranks of the Democratic Party and eventually became the personal secretary to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. 

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