Still going at 90: Pioneering Jacksonville triathlete Dottie Dorion's life is now a film [Co-found of Community Hospice & Palliative Care in Jacksonville, FL]

10/09/24 at 03:00 AM

Still going at 90: Pioneering Jacksonville triathlete Dottie Dorion's life is now a film [Co-found of Community Hospice & Palliative Care in Jacksonville, FL]
Jacksonville Florida Times-Union; by Matt Soergel; 10/8/24 
... Dorion's remarkable athletic life is told in a documentary called "Beyond Triathlon," which features her and fellow athlete Celeste Callahan of Denver, each of them pioneering competitors who in midlife decided they would devote themselves to grueling endurance races. ... [Her husband of 63 years,] George Dorion was in hospice care, a cause Dottie has long championed as an advocate for and a co-founder of Community Hospice & Palliative Care — at a time when hospice was a foreign concept to most people in America. She has been involved in numerous causes beyond hospice. She is co-founder of Volunteers in Medicine, a clinic that provides free health care to uninsured working adults and their families. And she's supported sports programs at the University of North Florida, particularly for women athletes; she's set up endowed scholarships there, and there's a fitness center on campus named after her. 

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