Dorothy Pauline Schutte

Dorothy Pauline Schutte was born on 16 December 1920 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA to Frederick George Schutte and Elsie Jennie Schutte (nee Brewster). She was one of seven children - Thomas Samuel Schutte, Ralph E Schutte, Leslie George Schutte, Barbara Jensen, Gloria Bareford and Harold D Schutte. Her parents were aged 28 (Frederick George Schutte) and 22 ( Elsie Jennie Brewster). She married Desmond T. Doss on 17 August 1942, in Richmond, Virginia, United States. She lived in Manchester, Chesterfield, Virginia, United States in 1930 and Walker, Georgia, United States in 1991. Schutte appeared in the 1959 episode of Desmond Doss (1959) , about the life of his son Desmond T. Doss . She was portrayed by Teresa Palmer in the 2016 Mel Gibson movie Hacksaw Ridge (2016). Schutte passed away on 17 November 1991, in Catoosa County, Georgia, USA; and is buried in the Chattanooga National Cemetery, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA.