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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 1951
Dorothy Dix's Own Eulogy To Be Read At Her Funeral
New Orleans, La.—(U.P.)—Dorothy Dix, the spry little woman in whom a nation confided its most intimate heartaches and problems for 55 years, will be buried here today with her own words used as her eulogy.
The pioneer newspaperwoman and original "sob sister" of the journalistic world—whose real name, Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, was as obscure as the sorrows, troubles and sacrifices which dogged her 90 years of life—died at Touro infirmary here Sunday. For the past 20 months she had been a semi-conscious invalid as the result of a stroke of paralysis.
"I had a passion for newspaper work and I set about learning my trade with the zeal of a fanatic," she wrote in a short autobiography. "I studied the backs off books of synonyms and word books and dictionary.
"I lived newspapers, I ate newspapers, dreamed newspapers and I dare say I shall go on doing this until I die. For when you are born with a thirst for printer's ink, there is no cure for it until death writes 30 at the bottom of your life copy."
Miss Dix wrote seven books in her lifetime, but she was best known and
loved by her millions of admirers for her column, "Dorothy Dix Speaks," a frank and often harshly critical analysis of problems submitted to her by mail. Her files contain letters numbered in the millions, each one of which received an answer in print or by personal letter.
Her writings never gave hint of the tragedy of her own life.
Born on a plantation in Montgomery county, Tenn., Nov. 18, 1861, she married George O. Gilmer in 1888. He was stricken with an illness two years later and Miss Dix devoted the next 35 years of her life to nursing him.
The pseudonym "Dorothy Dix" was the hybrid invention of her love for the name "Dorothy" and the respect for a servant "Dick's." She liked privacy and took great care not to associate the private life of Mrs. Glimer with the professional life of Miss Dix.
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