Fannin County Witness to History: Roberta Dodd Crawford

Roberta Dodd (1895-1954) was born in the Tanktown section of Bonham. She attended Washington School and later worked as a waitress at Curtiss Boarding House. As a youth she sang in local churches, the Opera House and the Alexander Hotel. Benefactors in Chicago arranged for her to travel to Paris for study where she was trapped when the Nazis occupied France in 1940.