- Role
- Secondary
- Nickname
- Dotty
- Profession
- Ex-School Teacher, now well-off widow
- Birthdate
- 03/27/33
- Relationship Status
- Widowed
- Playby
- Dora Bryant
- Height
- 5'5
- Build
- Medium
- Hair Color
- Blond (Natural??)
- Eye Color
- Blue
- Physical Description
Middle age spread, but Mr Pettigrew's made to measure corsets do wonders.
- Reputation
Highly respectable. Native Kalispellians in their 20s remember her as a strict, slightly eccentric but competent teacher in the old fashioned learning by rote style. Has something of a reputation of being, like her nickname, a little dotty. It is rumoured that her late husband was having a long-running affair with Mary Wigfall at the boarding house and that her children may actually be his natural offspring.
- Name History
Maiden name: née Dransfield.
- Employment Details
School Marm, Kalispell, 1867-74
- Expertise
Spirit rapping, teaching, corporal punishment, social etiquette
- Kith & Kin
Late Husband: Richard Orr
Daughter: Anaesthesia Ether Orr
Brother: Crompton Bosco Dransfield
- Timeline
Born: 1833: Hartford Connecticut to wealthy parents.
1856-57: Courtship by lawyer Richard Orr, whom she eventually marries over the objections of her parents.
Daughter Born 1st May 1858. Avon, nr. Hartfort, CONN. The birth is difficult and Mrs Orr's advanced young doctor uses Ether as an anaesthetic. In gratitude, Mrs Orr decrees that the baby girl be named Anaesthesia Ether.
1861: No copperhead, Mr Orr heads South and offers his services to the Confederacy although he considers secession an awful mistake for the South.
1862-65: Worrisome war years living in Charleston.
1866: With the end of the war, Orr helps organise the newly revitalised Cattle Drives, employing a large number of ex-slaves and impoverished Texans. Spends his time between various points on the trail but, after recieving a mysterious letter, moves his family to Kalispell. Dotty becomes the local school mistress for a number of years.
1867-74: School Mistress, Kalispell.
1874: Mr Orr insists Dotty gives up teaching as he requires her to organise social events etc. A school Master is appointed in her stead who has to be dismissed after a a few months when it it discovered that he is unsuitable. Miss Bowen appointed in his place.
1876: Husband killed when the reporter Phineas McVay sets fire to his office.
- Written By
- Javia