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Dorothy E. Warner
• Age: I'm old” • Birthplace: South Carolina • Family: Dorothy had a twin who died after just a few days. “I'm living for both of us.” She has a daughter and two grandsons. • Job: Retired from the Department of Defense. Currently works part-time at the Washington Baptist Church. • Favorite movie: Enjoys movies with Judy Garland. Particularly likes television programs Gray’s Anatomy and Brothers and Sisters and following CNN. • Favorite book: “To Kill a Mockingbird” • Favorite food: Chinese • Hobbies: Cooking and traveling • Personal hero: My father - Irving Davenport • Worst habit: Procrastination • First waking thought: “What day is this?" and “What do I have to do today?” • What brings a smile to your face: “Thinking about the old times.”
Dorothy didn't intend to fall in love with Rappahannock County but that is exactly what has happened.
It was the early 1990s.
Her husband. Frank Warner, had retired a few years before she did and was spending his time traveling back and forth between Rappahannock County and Alexandria where they had moved into a townhouse. “He had inherited land in his family that they had owned since 1892,” said Dorothy.
The move to Rappahannock came sooner than she had expected. “I cried all the way down I-66," recalled Dorothy who was fond of visiting the Kennedy Center and the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. “I didn’t know what I was going to do there.”
But. just as quickly, the look of sadness on her face changed to whimsy as Dorothy smiled broadly, “and I love it here now, I wouldn’t want to be any place else.”
Dorothy is so busy now that when she wakes each morning, she has to remind
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