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If you look at Google Books, there are several sources referring to Dorothy Donahoe of Bakersfield, but there is only a single source (the one already cited in the article) referring to Dorothy Donohue. That source is probably misspelling her name. It's a typewritten document. It's not typeset, meaning it would not have gone through the quality control and proofreading processes then used for typeset material. In 1960, the American publishing industry was still mostly using hot metal typesetting and was in the middle of a transition to phototypesetting, both of which were far more tedious, labor-intensive, and expensive than modern desktop publishing.
If you look at ACR No. 23, enacted by the California State Assembly to memorialize her passing, the Assembly clearly used the spelling Donahoe. It's highly unlikely that having suddenly lost an important member, the Assembly would compound her family's trauma by misspelling her name in the resolution intended to memorialize her death. Any objections before I fix this mess? Coolcaesar (talk) 16:02, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Just thought of something. The California State Legislature keeps journals of its official proceedings. I took the photo of them currently in the article. The Assembly journals are available here.
Google has already indexed those documents' contents. If you run separate site-specific searches for Dorothy Donahoe and Dorothy Donohue on Google, it's quite clear from the results that Dorothy Donahoe was the spelling consistently recorded in the Assembly's records, while the results for Dorothy Donohue are all documents in which those two separate words were found in completely different parts of the same document. --Coolcaesar (talk) 22:12, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
