Nola Walsh
Nola Walsh was born on August 7, 1901 in Aurora, Illinois. She attended Clark College (in days when few women went to college) in Dubuque, Iowa before her family moved to Detroit around 1920. She then attended the Conservatory of Music in Detroit.
Nola was a woman of culture, manners and education. She played the violin, organ, and piano. Nola's interests were in aesthetics - beautiful music, beautiful clothes, art and beautiful surroundings. She had a certain regal reserve, always pleasant and never complained.
She met and married Walter (Daddy Dunne) in 1924. Before she was married, she often used to play organ in movie theaters to accompany the action on the screen as it was the time of the silent movies then.
She dressed up every day. Always wore a dress - never slacks - with nylon stockings. In those days, before pantyhose, that meant a girdle with garters. She always wore earrings. Her mother, Munner, told her that the last thing a lady should do before going out for an evening was to take off one piece of jewelry. She never wanted to drew attention to herself. She had beautiful, thick, wavy, hair.
Nola and Daddy Dunne were quite opposite in personality, but quite alike in values. They shared a sense of devotion to duty - integrity - responsibility - honesty - honor - curiosity and intellectual pursuits.
She died at age of 64, about three weeks before Daddy Dunne died.
