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Merit Amnesi< By Rick Baker Peoria Journal Star MORTON,* 111. (AP) ? She was the woman with no name ? av mystery for 38 years in the custody of the state of Illinois. This week, they buried her. Only pieces df her tragic life are known. Nobody ever knew her name, although they called her Mary Doefour. There already were at least three Mary Does in the state mental institutions. About 50 years ago, she was a young, attractive scnooi teacher from the Midwest, perhaps Missouri or Iowa. Nobody knows for sure. One day during the ! Depression, she was found dazed 1 beside a rural road near Chicago. J SHE HAD BEEN raped and j beaten. Authorities couldn't figure j out what to do with a woman, who, ] n f o rfn OK o5*-1 nUn at oaiu ouu cuuiuu t 2 remember her name or anything < else about herself. So, she was placed in a state 1 hospital for the criminally insane near Manteno. She had committed no crime. She wasn't insane. She just couldn't remember who she was. She probably never saw the baby she had as a result of the rape. During her 10 years at Manteno, she was given so much medicine that she developed a nervous Dunsinane Armoury Military miniatures, Models, Books, Prints, i Games. Opening March 10 403-B Catawba Ave. OffHugerSt. j South of Blossom I Hours: Wed. 6-9 pm 10 am - 6 pm | Oft. SAGE'S \ j Wine I Wednesday JQ_ m * (O A a I hospitals her ho _1* 4 l" :aies unn disorder, and was frequently given hei electroshock treatments to keep on her calm. \ When the electricity knocked her tor out, she would be thrown into a tub nui of cold water, a standard practice 111. during the period. Coi John Steinmetz, now assistant wh superintendent at Manteno, said Mary Doefour's records did not k explain precisely why she was sent ye' tnere. However, ne said, tne w Illinois mental health system was mc in its infancy at the time, and the ra* state had no place else to put her. ari. rai AFTER A DECADE, she was ^ transferred. All of Mary Doefour's sh< t>eJongings ? a sweater and a ^ iress several sizes too big, some socks and a pair of shoes ? were stuffed into an old orange crate cr and she was driven to a state y-c hospital in Bartonville, where she stayed for 30 years until the facility ( closed. a Once an intelligent, articulate pg, tvoman.. she degenerated, ac- rej cording to Diana Stroud. Now she C0I blew her nose on her dress, washed do IF YOU WANT Creativity with the pt to make things hapf in your VOTE MICH WARfiH for vice-pi ENTCOTAINMEI ANNOUNCES LADIES NIGHT 1 * t, ' j > )raf't beer ju&t 25< 8P Saturday nighfc j ' ' ' *< : i y, . . f ? * !- Disco Show 8:8 - Happy Hour 4:1 11:30-12:30 i - St. Patrick's Da P Sat., March 17 Irish Music and ? UN's r v w ~ United Nations Se< k I 11| lA/ IE in a special convocat ^ Waldheim will rec< be made of the estat self in the toilet and defecated honoring the second s the floor. , _ USC President Jai Vhen the state closed Bar- , and praised him as ai iville, she was shuttled to other Waldheim was am rsing homes, first in El Paso, 1972 succeeding U Th , and then the Queenwood During his visit, rivalescent Home in Morton, ternational students ere Mrs. Stroud worked. have lunch with ^ >he shook constantly from 50 ars of medication, but appeared HEW si enjoy her new freedom from ;ntal institutions, wearing a The on-site visitati >ged pmk sweater as she walked Department of Heal )und the nursing home even in umi nstorms ~ uuuugi. inureuay. it* . e . The team will con( f^,ouP'e ?f ye3^. however, March 13.15 Presid( ; went blind. Thursday. "his past March, Mary Doefour The team is seel d of a heart attack while in bed. financial aid, counse 3 was about 71. She was minority students, ai mated and given a brief ser- and training and appl e. TKnrorlotf r* (iv* /? a nut ouujf, uuuci a lit ucc III ^ cemetery space reserved for 5 'sons with no money and no = atives, they buried the urn 5 itaining the ashes of Mary s ,rsis e ce n ^ j? fp^ student government, | AEL 1 Stl _ I [AUER i T~r -esident ? I | Tu UT Mfil AO 5 5:3 . ( n 8 S I z ? ? a glass I | AS s, 7-10 pm. | S 1 I Soup I PC 0-1:30 Nightly f Entree ? Cc Mon.-Fri. 5 B< 2 Vegel ,y Party | C Circen Beer, 5 ?' i r* [ Dancing. I * ^ I | Salads, B Russell House Capstan* Waldheim iretary-General Kurt W ion at the Law Center Ai live an honorary degree riishment of the Dag Ha secretary-general of the nes B. Holderman annt i international leader. >ointed secretary-genen ant. He began his secorn Waldheim will meet of the university at a Richard W. Riley. udy-visit si on team of the Office c th, Education and Welf Juct interviews with ad int James is. 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