Doris June Struble

Struble toured as a pianist, singer, and dramatic reader on the Chautauqua circuit in the United States and Canada in the 1910s and 1920s.^[6][7] She appeared in Australia and New Zealand in 1918 and 1919, as a member of the Southern Seas Sextette (an all-woman musical ensemble),^[8] as a soloist, and accompanying singer Carrie Lanceley.^[9][10] She performed her own works, and pieces by Edna Ferber, Mana-Zucca, Edgar Guest, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and other writers.^[5] She was especially active in California, often seen on women's club programs and at other community events.^[11][12][13] Her act also worked on radio.^[14] She continued performing her dramatic readings for community groups into the 1940s.^[15]

In the 1950s and 1960s, Doris Struble Harmon wrote short poems that appeared in newspapers including The Wall Street Journal.^{[16][17][18][19][20]} In the 1970s, she was known as the "Fairy Godmother" of Valley Children's Hospital, because she would dress up in a silver cloak, a tiara, and carry a magic wand to visit the young patients to tell them stories.^[21][22][23]

Doris June Struble married Sturges Harmon of Chicago in 1923.^[24][25] They had two children, James and Sarah. She was widowed in 1973, and married again in 1974, to Kennard Burdette Seyller Sr.^[26] She died in 1976, aged 81 years, in Fresno, California.^[21][22]