Doris Sticher lived and raised her family in Cressona, Pennsylvania. She later moved to Maryland where she became a waitress at the Woman’s Industrial Exchange during the 1980s. In 1983, she was featured in a photograph in the Baltimore News-American newspaper with waitresses Wilhelmina Godwin, Carrie Geraghty, Marguerite Schertle, and Loretta Tarbert, whom she worked with in the tearoom. She was married to William Sticher and had a son, Reynold “Bill” Sticher, who was born in 1924. Bill served for the United States Navy during World War II and later for the United States Air Force. After the war, he was an air traffic controller for the Federal Aviation Administration.
Sources:
“Reynold ‘Bill’ Sticher.” Whidbey News-Times, March 2016.
“Reynold W. Sticher.” Dignity Memorial, March 2016.
“Waitresses.” Baltimore News-American, January 9, 1983.