Dorothy Olson Pauletti was almost 103 years old when she departed from all of us.  She spent 100 of those years playing the piano, 84 of them in Chicago as a musician and entertainer, for which she was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Chicago Federation of Musicians.

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She played such iconic venues as The Drake Hotel, The Pick Congress, and her favorite, The Empire Room of the Palmer House. 

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During World War II she volunteered more than 1,000 performances through the National Red Cross, entertaining wounded soldiers, " playing and singing for them---happy songs, love songs, anything they wanted to hear," for which she was awarded a commendation by President Truman. 

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She considered this time to be "the most wonderful thing I've ever done musically."  Indeed, Dorothy was a Celebrity for a Century.