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Doris Denton is a retired United States Marine and a retired Professional Golfers’ Association/ Ladies Professional Golf Association golf professional. She now resides at the Armed Forces Retirement Home, Gulfport. Doris Denton
Q: Tell us a bit about yourself and your background and career. A: I am originally from Connecticut and moved to Georgia when I was 11, then to Florida when I was 12. When I turned 17, we moved to Louisiana, where I graduated high school and joined the United States Marine Corps. After retiring from the Marines, I moved to Florida, where I lived for 35 years until I moved to the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport in 2015. I have one brother and three sisters still living and one brother and two sisters who have passed. I have numerous nieces and
nephews, a bunch of great nieces and nephews and one great-great niece. I am 84 years young and had a great military career training recruits to be Marines and serving in Vietnam. I am the only military woman living at the Armed Forces Home who had boots on the ground in Vietnam. I enjoyed Europe while stationed in Naples Italy, and I really enjoyed my time spent at 8th and I (Marine Barracks Washington) in Washington, D.C. I also had a tour of duty with the fourth Marine Air Wing in New Orleans and ended my career in Hawaii at the 1st Marine
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