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take care of her family following her mother's death from tuberculosis. At age 12, she was helping her father out in the fields, learning to plow. The flies would buzz around and bother the horses, and this sweet-spirited girl would get down to swat the flies away and then quickly return to work.
• Dolly stayed and helped her family on the farm until marrying schoolteacher William Keehn. They moved to the Flandreau area, where William taught in country schools. While Dolly was a homemaker, her resume was far from static, changing often as different needs arose. According to daughter Lois, William's teacher's salary often took the form of more tangible goods - eggs, a slab of beef, etc - during the Depression, based on whatever the students' families could provide during such tough times. To supplement their income, Dolly and her husband turned to raising gladiolas on an acreage east of town, shipping bulbs all across the United States to various warehousing companies. Each fall, they'd dig up and sort hundreds of bulbs, only to replant the following spring.
• In addition to his career of teaching and grade school administration, Dolly's husband served as the Moody County Auditor. When term limits ended his service, Dolly campaigned and won William's seat, serving as County Auditor for one term.
• After their daughter graduated from high school, William and Dolly moved out to the Black Hills. William began to teach once more, but in the middle of the academic year, he suffered a severe heart attack and passed away. Rather than hire a new teacher for the remainder of the term, the students' parents asked Dolly to stay and

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