Alexis Doster, III

1943 - 2017  (74 years)

• Name	Alexis Doster  [1]
  Suffix	III
  Birth	9 Mar 1943	Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Jun 2017	Tucson, Pima, Arizona   [1, 2]
  Burial	East Cemetery, Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut   [1]
  Person ID	I341895	Descendants of William Hascall of Fontmell Magna (1490-1542)
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Alexis Doster, Jr.,   b. 18 Apr 1918, New York d. 1 Oct 1943, Cairo, Al Qåhirah, Egypt (Age 25 years)
  Mother	Barbara Benson,   b. 26 Nov 1919, New York d. 20 Dec 2008, Arivaca, Pima, Arizona (Age 89 years)
  Family ID	F220048	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Living
  Children	1. Tracy Doster   2. Stephanie Doster
  Family ID	F220051	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2023

  
  

• Notes

  The Capital (Annapolis, MD) July 16, 2017 Alexis "Dusty" Doster III, 74, a longtime resident of Annapolis, MD, died on June 25, 2017, at his home in Tucson, AZ. Born in Waterbury, CT, Dusty grew up in Tucson and graduated from the University of Arizona. In a career that spanned 35 years at the Smithsonian Institution in Wash., D.C., Dusty was a curator at the National Air and Space Museum, a senior editor at Smithsonian Books, and history editor at Smithsonian magazine. He was an Annapolis resident from 1967 to 2015. The breadth and depth of his knowledge and interests was legendary, his reading habits voracious, his memory remarkable, and his love of the desert and his family passionate. He had a black belt in talking. Dusty is survived by his wife of 52 years, Cynthia (Bell) Doster; daughters, Tracy Welch (Tim Savage) and Stephanie (John) Capuano, all of Tucson; brother, Robert W. Campbell, of Tumacácori, AZ; sister, Sara Campbell Wohl, of Croton-on-Hudson, NY; and five grandchildren.

  
  

• Sources

  [S77122] Cemetery index, East Cemetery, Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, (Find-a-Grave). [S77128] Obituary, The Capital (Annapolis, MD), Alexis Doster III, (July 15, 2017).