Anne Cole Pierce Reveals The Extraordinary Life That Her Mother, Dollie Cole, Led
Anne Cole Pierce recalls her mother, the late Dollie Ann Cole, a legendary Fort Worth-bred persona who lived her life as a mother, wife, and matriarch with grace and wit, and conquered the social world with her verve and beauty…with one more memory for Dollie’s Memory Jar. This story originally appeared in 2016 and remains timeless.
Photography courtesy of General Motors Photographic, Edward Noble, Walter Daran, Louis Schumacher, J. M. Dentler, Bob Scott, Dominic J. Palazzolo, and Will Van Overbeek
Memories Are Made Of This
My mother, Dollie Ann Cole, was the real deal – an outspoken, stylish, “kick-ass” Texas woman who, in the 1960s and 1970s, shattered the American auto industry’s image of the quiet, “stay-in-the-background” corporate executive wife. On Mother’s Day in 2011, I gave her a “Jar of Memories” with a story to commemorate each year with her. Her marriage to Edward Cole, the highly respected engineer and president of General Motors, is well known. Her family life was every bit as interesting. Here I share some of my favorite personal memories of her. One more memory for Dollie’s “Memory Jar.”…