Background
Beaufait, Doris Elaine O'Donnell was born on June 21, 1921 in Cleveland. Daughter of John Laurence and Stella Agnes O'Donnell.
Beaufait, Doris Elaine O'Donnell was born on June 21, 1921 in Cleveland. Daughter of John Laurence and Stella Agnes O'Donnell.
Student, Case Western Reserve University, 1940—1944. Student, John Carroll University, 1944—1947. Student, Seton Hill College, 1985—1988.
With Cleveland News, 1944—1958, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1958—1959, Cleveland Zoological Society, 1959—1962, News-Herald, Willoughby, Ohio, 1970—1971, Office of the Mayor, Cleveland, 1972—1973. Staff University Hospitals, 1961—1963. Reporter Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1963—1970.
Investigative reporter & writer Tribune Review, Greensburg, 1973—1991. Freelance writer.
Member Pennsylvania Judicial Merit Selection Commission Westmoreland County, 1980—1981. Member of Ligonier Valley Writers (president, associate conference), Pennsylvania Women's Press Association, Pennsylvania Newspaper Women's Association, Ligionier Valley History Society, Press Club.
Married Howard Beaufait, September 1957.