Dolce Lee HORNBERGER

1917 - 1962  (44 years)

• Name	Dolce Lee HORNBERGER
  Birth	13 May 1917	Austin, Travis, Texas, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Also Known As	Ann
  Census	9 Jan 1920	Austin, Travis, Texas, USA   [5]
  	1500 Guadalupe
  Census	10 Apr 1930	Austin, Travis, Texas, USA   [3]
  	1401 1/2 Lavaca St.
  Religion	Catholic
  Occupation	Nurse
  Death	6 Feb 1962	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA   [2, 4, 6]
  Burial	Austin Memorial Park, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA   [4]
  	Section 1, Lot 397, Grave 15
  Person ID	I13101	Dyal and Speckels
  Last Modified	10 May 2011

  
  

  Father	William Christian HORNBERGER, Jr.,   b. 1 Sep 1882, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA d. 4 Oct 1966, Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA (Age 84 years)
  Mother	Bertha Malina YOUNG,   b. 21 Sep 1886, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA d. 19 Jul 1918, Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA (Age 31 years)
  Marriage	7 Oct 1909	Austin, Travis, Texas, USA   [7]
  Family ID	F8798	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	James Ethmur ISBELL,   b. 7 Apr 1905, Coy, McDonald, Missouri, USA d. Jun 1981 (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	11 Nov 1943	Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, USA   [6]
  Divorce	1948	Dade County, Florida, USA   [8]
  Children	+ 1. Dallas Ann ISBELL,   b. 12 Dec 1944, Corpus Christi, Nueces, Texas, USA d. 2 Jan 2022, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, USA (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F9178	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 May 2011

  
  

  Family 2	Living
  Children	+ 1. Living + 2. Living
  Family ID	F24535	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 May 2011

  
  

  Family 3	SHIELDS
  Family ID	F24159	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 May 2023

  
  

• Notes

  “Dolce didn’t like her name and preferred to go by Ann. Upon the death of her mother who died of appendicitis when Dolce was about two years old, her father somewhat distanced himself from the family, leaving the care of his two children to his mother, Anna von Rosenberg Hornberger until “Mama Berger” died when Dolce was a young teen. At that time she was cared for by various family members. She attended Pease School in Austin, and the Ursula Academy in San Antonio. She received a degree from Seton Hospital in Austin. Not long after graduating she was briefly married. She resided in Arizona for a short time, but returned to Texas in 1943. After the birth of her first child, the family lived briefly in Austin then moved to Miami, Florida, where they started a business. They were there about two years when she felt she needed to disassociate herself from all family members, including her two year old child. She kept in touch with her baby’s father for a few months before leaving Florida, telling no one her whereabouts. In the early 1950’s she married Don Peterson and had two children and eventually left them with their father as well. It wasn’t until the end of 1961 that she decided to make contact with the family in Texas by visiting an aunt in Austin. She asked the aunt to keep her visit confidential. Soon after returning to California, she died. At the time of her death she was working as a nurse at Los Angeles County Hospital in California. Her family then learned that she had worked in various hospitals in different states, which included volunteer work in Point Barrow, Alaska during an epidemic that took the lives of many sled dogs. She attended St. Andrew’s Catholic Church.” [9]

  
  

• Sources

  [S371] ed., Charles Wilburn von Rosenberg, The Von Rosenberg Family Record, (Texian Press (Waco, TX, 1974)), p. 67. [S343] Ancestry.com, California Death Index, 1940-1997, (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network Inc., 2000), Place: Los Angeles; Date: 6 Feb 1962; Social Security: 464166785. [S15] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930, Travis County, Texas, ED 25, p. 12A, line 43. [S1412] Find A Grave, Austin Memorial Park Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA, 10 May 2011. [S14] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920, Travis County, Texas, ED 102, p. 7A, line 45. [S371] ed., Charles Wilburn von Rosenberg, The Von Rosenberg Family Record, (Texian Press (Waco, TX, 1974)), p. 68. [S370] ed., Alma von Rosenberg Tomlinson, The von Rosenberg Family of Texas, (Toepperwein Publishing Co. (Boerne, TX, 1949); reprint: Nortex Press (n.p., 1986)), p. 44. [S1079] Ancestry.com, Florida Divorce Index, 1927-2001, (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006), Certificate #3296. [S335] Ancestry.com, California Birth Index, 1905-1995, (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network Inc., 2005), p. 51.