When then 17-year-old Dora Martin Berry was elected by her peers in 1955 as Miss State University of Iowa, making her the first Black student to hold the honor, university officials refused to ...

Berry, Dora “SIS”. Age 85 passed away August 11, 2011. She was employed as the Head Chef at Ramada Inn in Lake Station Indiana. She was a member of Van Buren Missionary Baptist Church. She was ...

Dora Martin Berry, 79, was the first African-American woman to receive the title of Miss State University in 1955 at the University of Iowa. Although she was recognized across the globe for being an ...

Dora Lee Berry died at Brewster Place on May 8, 2025. She was born on November 27, 1932, in Topeka, Kansas, to the union of Franklin James Howey and Edith Elvera Beckley Howey. She lived briefly in ...

NASHVILLE – Dora Elizabeth Berry was born on December 17, 1924, in Guisborough, England and died peacefully at home on March 27, 2021, in Nashville, Tennessee. Preceded in death by her parents, Alfred ...