Dorothy and her family moved to Woodland, Washington when she was three or four years old. She started school in Woodland at the age of six. She had to walk two miles to and from school across a bridge over the Lewis River when she was in the first grade. Dorothy wore dresses to school that her mom made for her.

Dorothy loved school. It was set up similar to ours where each grade had a separate room. There were about twenty kids in the whole school. She was taught the ABC’s by sitting on a long bench with all of the other students listening to the teacher say a letter and a word that begins with that letter. Her favorite subjects in school were math and later Spanish in high school.

From Woodland, Dorothy and her family moved to Burley, Idaho, when she was eight. In the fifth and sixth grades Dorothy ran in a track meet there. She and another girl named Ruby were the fastest runners in their school so they had to go on to further competition. The day before the meet, they ran so much to practice for the race that on the day of the race, Dorothy was so sore and stiff that she could hardly move, so she didn’t win the race.

When aviation first started, Dorothy would run out and watch every plane that flew over. Dorothy and her family were very excited when they saw an airplane fly over for the first time in Idaho.

Then they moved to Canby, California (near Alturas) for a few months were on a big cattle ranch. There were only eleven other kids that attended that school and they used double desks. Most of the time there were only six kids at school because one family did not attend very regularly. That left the teacher with three Pomeroys and three from another family. The cattle ranch didn’t work out though because her dad couldn’t find any cattle to stock the ranch, so they moved on to Fallon.

Arriving in Fallon, they first lived in a house along the Reno Highway. Dorothy first attended the Oats Park School and then they moved out to the Harmon District where Dorothy graduated from the eighth grade. Dorothy, George and Charlie all had their own horses when they lived in Harmon. Next they moved into town where she graduated from high school.

When the Pomeroys came to Fallon, Dorothy joined 4-H where she was in the sewing and cooking clubs. For fun, Dorothy played with dolls and played under a loft (hung from it, too), hopscotch, marbles, went to the theater, and rode horses. Her favorite horse to ride was one named "Chalkeye" because he could work cattle real well.

Dorothy and her family loved to ride their horses to the theater for fun on the weekends and watch the matinees. The theater then was about like it is now with the big screens and everything.

She and her brothers always helped their parents out by doing chores on the farm. Some of the animals they had on the farm were dogs, cats, cows and horses. One of the things that Dorothy helped out with was milking cows. When she was a freshman in high school, she milked fifteen cows by hand one morning before school. Other chores she had to do were feed the calves and clean the separator (a separator is a machine that fresh milk from the cow is placed in and the cream comes out one spout and the milk comes out of the other.)

Her first job was washing dishes and things for a lady who was cooking for a hay crew and she’s been cooking ever since - and still is.

Dorothy and her family got along fine during the Great Depression. Her Dad raised a big garden and her mother canned great quantities of vegetables. They would also get about ten boxes of apples. The family didn’t have any money, but they never went hungry.

Dorothy didn’t like war and World War II was no exception. She was "stuck" on the farm raising animals and growing hay during the war. She remembers rationing and having to be careful with meat, sugar and shoes. During the war, Dorothy and her husband, Johnny Miller, owned riding stables where Navy kids would rent horses to ride for the day. The stables used to sit on the property on 1241 South Taylor Street where the Dentist’s Office is today. They sometimes took a big group of people and horses out somewhere to ride for the day and cooked a meal. Dorothy’s brother George, used to cook most of the time on the rides. Everybody would always have a good time.

Dorothy met her husband, Johnny Miller, when a guy named Buck Kirn brought him over to her house from their work on the Dodge Ranch. She was getting potatoes out of the cellar to peel and Johnny was bound to get the potatoes for her but she wouldn’t let him. They eventually got married on December 24, 1930, in Fallon, Nevada.

Dorothy and Johnny had one child. They named him Larry and he turned out to be a good guy. He always helped them out and rode horses a lot with them. For the most part, Dorothy and family lived at the Carson Lake Pasture out by the Navy base while Larry was growing up.

In the 1970s, Johnny and Dorothy moved a house from their town property down to Allen Road and rebuilt it. That is where they are currently residing.

Larry married Pam Hill and raised a family of three children on their ranch near the Schurz Highway.