Dorothy Scholl Armold was born on April 29, 1913 in Shamrock, Callaway County, Missouri. She was the daughter of Milton Scholl and Carrie Deliah Cobb Scholl, and was married to Harold Arthur Armold. Dorothy served in the US Army Nurse Corps as a Second Lieutenant during World War II. She was one of the "Angels of Bataan and Corregidor” – the US Army and Navy Nurse Corps women who served in the Battle of the Philippines in 1941-42. When Bataan and Corregidor fell, 11 Navy nurses, 66 army nurses, and 1 nurse-anesthetist were captured and imprisoned in and around Manila. They continued to serve as nurses in various POW camps until they were finally liberated in February 1945. Dorothy died on September 16, 2000 at the age of 87 in Weatherford, Custer County, Oklahoma and is now buried in the Indian Hill Cemetery, Chapman, Dickinson County, Kansas, USA with the rank of First Lieutenant on her headstone. Her surname is usually misspelled to Arnold on other records.