Doris Mildred Hale, née Perry, (1925 – July 17, 2017) grew up in the south end of Columbus. She was the third of eight children and the oldest of six girls. She attended South High School, graduating in the class of 1943, where she met her beloved husband, Bill Hale. Hale dedicated her life to her husband, family and the nursing profession.

During World War II, with a shortage of nurses at home, Hale enrolled in U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps where she graduated from the Grant Hospital Nursing School with the class of 1946. Throughout her life she stayed connected to her nursing school classmates attending luncheons and playing bingo with them once a month. Her nursing career was spent entirely at St. Anthony's Medical Center, now OSU Hospitals East in Columbus, where she managed the surgery recovery room and later worked as the nurse educator, teaching hundreds of clinicians still practicing today. Hale was known for her kindness and caring ways always instilling value and self-worth to each student no matter what their clinical or educational levels. She was beloved by her students and colleagues. Patient care and helping others was her number one priority. She had multiple children and grandchildren who followed her lead into the field of healthcare resulting in two generations of Hale family members dedicating their lives to the nursing profession.

Hale loved working in her garden and would often deliver flowers from her yard to sick family, friends and patients to brighten their hospital stay. She was an avid baker of cookies and desserts and many in Columbus and beyond, looked forward to her specially prepared tins of homemade treats every Christmas.

Hale and her husband had four children.