Obituary: Opal Lee Dole

Opal was born in Newberry Gap, Tenn., on Nov. 28, 1914, to Blanche and Thomas Drinnen. She spent her first 13 years there in a house that straddled the Tennessee and Virginia state line with her nine siblings.

Her mother died when she was 13 and her father moved the family to Colorado Springs with all their belongings in an old Pierce Arrow. The baby girl that was born shortly before her mother died of…