Dorothy Webster McClellan (née Dorothy Mary Webster; born January 26, 1930), commonly known as Dory (by her friends and brothers), Dotty (by her mother), Doll (by her father) and as Mother McClellan (by her children and grandchildren) and Aunt Dory (by her nephews and nieces), is the last living child of former Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster and First Lady Josephina Van Valkenburgh, making her of British, Italian, and Dutch ancestries. Dorothy Webster-McClellan is the wife of Zachery Brinton McClellan, and life-long friend of her god-sister and now sister-in-law Eleanora McClellan-Webster.
Dorothy Mary Webster was born on January 26, 1930, as the youngest child of Garfield Lucas Webster and Josephina Van Valkenburgh, in the Webster-Van Valkenburgh family's family retreat in Fairbanks, Alaska. Dorothy's father was 70-years-old, and her mother was 29. Her elder brothers, Garfield Lucas Webster II, who will fight in World War II by the time Dorothy was 11 and didn't return home till Dorothy was 15, and Dorothy's other elder brother, Severus Kaiser Webster, was treated by her father as the black sheep of the Webster-Van Valkenburgh family.
Dorothy was very much her father's favorite child, cherishing her more than her brothers, but her brother Garfield II was the successor of her family as the patriarch of the family, Dorothy was treated differently by her father better than her brothers for a sexist reason. Dorothy's father once said that while he did love her, he also thought Dorothy, his own daughter, was too stupid to handle the family business.
Dorothy attended Woldingham School, a Catholic school, and while in school, she fell in love with Zachery Brinton McClellan in her later Woldingham years. Her father disapproved of her relationship with Zachery McClellan, but she and McClellan moved to Texas, she graduated from Texas State University, and purchased McClellan's vacation home in Dallas, Texas. Dorothy married Zachery in 1948. Dorothy's father hated Zachery for his ties to the Southern United States, which he saw as "too poor for Dorothy" and Zachery's support for women's rights. Webster told his daughter Dorothy that "no civilized lady should live in the poverty-stricken south".
Dorothy married Zachery Brinton McClellan in 1948 and had 12 children, with one child deceased at birth. Dorothy now lives in the McClellan range in Greenville, Texas, and raised her children there with her husband.
Biography
Dorothy Mary Webster was born on January 26, 1930, to Garfield Webster (aged 70) and Josephina Van Valkenburgh (aged 38) in Fairbanks, Alaska. Dorothy was named after Theodore McClellan (because of the history of the English given name Dorothy), Dorothy was also named after Dorothy Gale from the Oz series, the Byzantine Empress Theodora, and Dorothea Dix.
Dorothy was the youngest child of Garfield Lucas Webster and Josephina Van Valkenburgh, the only daughter of the Van-Valkenburgh-Webster household, she has two brothers, Garfield Lucas Webster Jr and Severus Kaiser Webster, Dorothy became known as Dory (by her friends and brothers), Dot, Dotty (by her mother), and Doll (by her father). Dorothy was very close to her father, Dorothy was also close to her mother.
Dorothy grew up in a Catholic household, raised into the Catholic faith, Dorothy went to a Catholic school overseas in the United Kingdom, known as Woldingham School in Woldingham. Dorothy's first romance was James Andres Barnes, one of her father's servants. Dorothy and James' relationship was secret because James was African-American. Her brother Garfield II was drafted by the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration to fight in World War II following the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, Dorothy and Severus were the only people who lived with Garfield and Josephina.
After the war ended, Garfield Webster II came back to Anchorage after being rescued from Papua New Guinea (ruled by Australia then). In 1946, Dorothy met Zachery Brinton McClellan, Zachery and Dorothy started dating though she was still dating James Barnes, Barnes wanted to marry Dorothy, but due to the taboo against interracial marriage back in the '40s, it was never gonna happen, resulting in the end of Dorothy and James' relationship. In 1948, Dorothy was accepted into Texas State University with Zachery's help. Dorothy's brother Garfield Jr and Zachery's sister, Eleanora, married in 1945, and now Dorothy and Zachery, despite her father's opposition, married in Anchorage.
Garfield Webster Sr opposed the relationship between Dorothy and Zachery because Zachery was known for his support for the women's rights movement and the civil rights movement, Dorothy got her way by marrying Zachery, she moved to Texas, much to her father's dismay and prejudice against Southerners, and she went on to start having children with Zachery, living in her husband's family range.
In 1955, which proved to be a tough year for Dorothy, her father was diagnosed with a brain cancer after showing symptoms of a brain cancer since the spring. In August 1955, the doctor told Dorothy that her father has brain cancer, and then officially diagnosed with brain cancer, but as the symptoms got worse, it was realized that Garfield Webster has glioblastoma multiforme (commonly known as glioblastoma), Dorothy was devastated and spend her last times with her father. On December 25, 1955, her father died at 95, when Dorothy was 25, about to be 26. Dorothy has been acting differently every Christmas due to her father's death.
Dorothy has many nephews and nieces, they refer to Dorothy as Aunt Dory, and she visits them in Anchorage and Boston, but not on Christmas. Dorothy's children (who were born after her father's death) always notice that their Christmases were not normal compared to the other kids, the McClellan family's Christmases were always inactive, no Christmas decorations, no Christmas music, nothing, except in other holidays, the McClellans are very active in these holidays, but have to deal with the complication of Dorothy getting more depressed when Christmas approaches.
Living near Dallas in Texas, U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and Dorothy was very much afraid as a result of it, Dorothy was a die-hard Kennedy supporter who stood by Kennedy regardless of his political mistakes, and Dorothy once said about Kennedy: "President Kennedy can do no wrong because he's God" in response to the Kennedy administration's failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro of Cuba. Kennedy's Vice President, Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat from Texas where Dorothy now lives, takes the Presidency off from Kennedy following his death, and carried on Kennedy's legacy with the Great Society agenda. Dorothy became an avid LBJ cultist for continuing Kennedy's agenda. Dorothy was an avid supporter for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, both of which expanded the rights of African Americans, especially in the South. Dorothy had been a Democrat because her own Republican father recommended her to be a Democrat.
In 1968, her first son, Ludovicus Webster McClellan, graduates from High School, but is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, Dorothy still supported Johnson that she supported Johnson's Vice President Hubert Humphrey for President during the 1968 presidential election. Humphrey narrowly lost the election to a fellow Vice President Richard Nixon of the Republican Party, Nixon won 301 electoral votes, to Humphrey's 191 electoral votes, George Wallace, former Governor of Alabama was more effective in getting Democrats in the South than Conservative Republicans to vote for him, because Southern Democratic voters were angry over the Democratic Party's new embracement of racial equality after more than century embracing white supremacy until World War II. The Republican victory in 1968 proved crucial because it established an era of Republican dominance over the executive branch of the federal government lasting from 1969 until Bill Clinton in 1992, only Jimmy Carter was the Democratic President between 1969 to '93.
In the 1959 Chawosaurian Prime Ministerial election, Dorothy had the perfect prime ministerial credentials to become Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria, but because she is a woman, she was widely not considered to be Prime Minister-material, and then with the Communist Party now have total control of the Chawosaurian government following the 1975 Chawosaurian elections, Dorothy was never gonna be Prime Minister.
Dorothy retired from her career in 1993, and then stay with her husband at Greenville, Texas, in the range owned by Nicholas McClellan and Victoria Mary Reagan-McClellan, Dorothy's parents-in-law.
See also
Family
Dorothy Webster-McClellan's family members and ancestors.
- Garfield Lucas Webster - father
- Josephina Van Valkenburgh - mother
- Garfield Lucas Webster II - brother
- Severus Kaiser Webster - brother
- Wilhelmus A.M. Van Valkenburgh - maternal uncle
- George Lucas Webster - paternal grandfather
- Elisabeth D'Alesandro - paternal grandmother
- Galusha Lucius Webster - paternal great-grandfather
- Nicola Mary Potter - paternal great-grandmother
- Zachery Brinton McClellan - husband
- Zachary Bryan McClellan - son