1924
Dody
2013
Dody Kuda
July 30, 1924 — October 16, 2013
Dody Kuda
Remembered for her inner strength, beauty, independence and caregiving, Dody Hagenlocher Kuda, named Ala Dora by her parents, was born in Roswell, NM, July 30, 1924, and left this world October 16, 2013, at Methodist Richardson Hospital following complications from a broken leg. Adopted at Albuquerque Children's Home just days after her birth, Ike Eugene and Martha Mae Archer Hagenlocher raised Dody with her cousin, Wili, in Whitewater, NM, until 1929 then moved to Moscow, KS, where she kept lifelong friends. Her parents worked for the Santa Fe Railroad when they all witnessed Black Sunday, the first gigantic storm of the Dust Bowl. She said everyone first thought it was a big fire moving towards them and then she recalled the three days of total darkness in the dust where her father had to crawl along the tracks to find the train depot to send messages to the outside world. As president of Moscow High School's Senior Class of 1941, Dody graduated at age 16 then attended Wichita State for one semester; then nursing school at St. Margaret's Hospital in Kansas City, KS.; did her psychiatric clinical at St. Vincent's and pediatrics at St. Mary's both in St. Louis; then graduated with her 3-year R.N. degree from St. Anthony's Hospital in Dodge City.
Remembered for her inner strength, beauty, independence and caregiving, Dody Hagenlocher Kuda, named Ala Dora by her parents, was born in Roswell, NM, July 30, 1924, and left this world October 16, 2013, at Methodist Richardson Hospital following complications from a broken leg. Adopted at Albuquerque Children's Home just days after her birth, Ike Eugene and Martha Mae Archer Hagenlocher raised Dody with her cousin, Wili, in Whitewater, NM, until 1929 then moved to Moscow, KS, where she kept lifelong friends. Her parents worked for the Santa Fe Railroad when they all witnessed Black Sunday, the first gigantic storm of the Dust Bowl. She said everyone first thought it was a big fire moving towards them and then she recalled the three days of total darkness in the dust where her father had to crawl along the tracks to find the train depot to send messages to the outside world. As president of Moscow High School's Senior Class of 1941, Dody graduated at age 16 then attended Wichita State for one semester; then nursing school at St. Margaret's Hospital in Kansas City, KS.; did her psychiatric clinical at St. Vincent's and pediatrics at St. Mary's both in St. Louis; then graduated with her 3-year R.N. degree from St. Anthony's Hospital in Dodge City.
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