When Dora Elaine Blomsten was born on 3 April 1922, in Washington, United States, her father, Benjamin Blomsten, was 39 and her mother, Dora Elva Wicks, was 33. She married Robert Edward Niles on 1 July 1948, in Humboldt, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Reedsport, Douglas, Oregon, United States in 1946 and Eureka, Humboldt, California, United States in 1950. She died on 20 May 1957, in Humboldt, California, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Oceanview Cemetery, Eureka, Humboldt, California, United States.
19th-century coinage, representing a short form of Isidora , Theodora , Dorothy , and any other name containing the Greek word dōron ‘gift’. Wordsworth's daughter ( 1804–47 ), christened Dorothy , was always known in adult life as Dora . The name's popularity was enhanced by the character of Dora Spenlow in Dickens's novel David Copperfield ( 1850 ).
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