Title	Mrs.
Last Name	Blethen
First Name	Dora
Middle Name
Maiden Name	Small
Nick Name
Place of Birth	Houlton, ME
Date of Birth
Place of Death	Belfast, ME
Date of Death	1953
Publication	The Eastern Gazette 12-10-1953, p.4
Obituary	MRS. DORA BLETHEN Word was received here Wednesday of the death of Mrs. Dora (Small) Blethen, widow of Ralph Blethen, in a Belfast Nursing Home following a long period of failing health. When a young girl she came from Houlton to Dexter and was employed for a time in the Exchange Hotel before her marriage to Ralph Blethen, a Dexter jeweler. She was a member of Martha Washington Rebekah lodge, and the First Universalist Church. A resident of this town for many years, she also had a summer cottage at Bayview. She is survived by one son, Alden, of Belfast and a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Francis, of College Park, Md. The funeral service is to be at the Crosby Funeral Home Saturday at 2 o'clock, with the Rev. J. Robert Bath of the Universalist Church officiating.