Dot Moore - Dot's Early Years

Dot's Early Years

Born in Pensacola, Florida before her family moved to Mobile at the age of 12, Dorothy "Dot" Fillette had her young mind and eyes set on becoming an actress, an early indication of what was soon to come many years later. One indication was her attempt at imitating movies such as those featuring Joan Crawford, whom Dot viewed on days when she voluntarily skipped school. Eventually she concluded that theater didn't have a particular lure, even though she managed to perform on stage locally. Dot's interests to perform before an audience would resurface during her years on television, as it gave her an easy, yet natural feeling. Before fulfilling her lifelong dreams, Moore would finish her schooling at Leinkauf Elementary and Murphy High School before her first job as a secretary close to her father, who was in the steam ship business. After being around ships came a Registrar position at the University of Alabama Expansion Center, sharpening her future interview skills in the process. While at the university, Dot was offered a place in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office in downtown Mobile and the U.S. Air Force office at Brookley Field. The investigative position at the Air Force office would come shortly after marrying Baltimore native Robert Joseph Miller. Unfortunately her husband died from TB, leaving Dot and 2-year-old year boy Bobby behind. Following her husbands' death, Dot opened "Dot's Dress Shoppe". One day at this Springhill Avenue establishment, Dot met the two ladies who would introduce her to both the radio and television business, a radio personality going on vacation and Connie Bea Hope who invited Dot over to her television show. Five years after Bob Miller's death, Dot would meet her second husband Lon Stephens Moore of Missouri on account of a friend inviting him over to her Dauphin Street home. Yet again, illness would halt Dot's marriage and the two people Mr. Moore knew very briefly were left alone again. Weeks after a period of mourning, Dot went back to work after finding a job at the same radio station that introduced her to broadcasting, WABB.