Rosemary DuBois
1927-Jan. 28, 2008
Palo Alto, California

Rosemary Dolin DuBois, 81, a resident of Palo Alto, died Jan. 28 in Alameda.

Irene and Edward Dolin adopted her at birth in Los Angeles. She graduated from an all-girls Catholic high school in Tucson, Ariz. At age 17 she lied about her age and enlisted in WAVES, a division of the U.S. Navy for women. She served at the Chicago Navy Pier and the San Francisco Fleet post office.

In 1946 she returned to Arizona to attend U.A., Phoenix, where she met her first husband, Charles Brandes. They both went on to graduate from U.C. Berkeley. She subsequently completed a master's degree in education at Stanford while counseling in the Santa Clara School District.

She spent many years living in South America, where her husband worked as a civil engineer.

After their divorce in 1965 she returned to the Bay Area and began teaching elementary school in Palo Alto.

In 1966 she married Andrew DuBois and a year later she gave birth to a daughter. Two of Andy's four daughters from his first marriage lived with them in Palo Alto until the family moved to Orinda in 1978.

She volunteered in Oakland city schools.

She is survived by her husband, Andy DuBois of Alameda; daughter, Julie DuBois of Redmond, Wash.; and stepdaughters, Jennifer Rogers of San Diego, Barbara DuBois of Mill Valley, Calif., and Amanda DuBois of Mountain View.

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