Dotty Fothergill

Dorothy Ann Fothergill, known as Dotty Fothergill, was an American left-handed ten-pin bowler who competed in the Professional Women's Bowling Association. She lived from April 10, 1945 to December 23, 2025. Her career was short because an injury cut it off, yet she won 12 titles on the PWBA Tour, six of them major championships. She was named Woman Bowler of the Year in 1968 and again in 1969, and she beat many top men in exhibition play. In 1970 she sued the Professional Bowlers Association after her application to compete in men's tournaments was rejected. She entered the Women's International Bowling Congress Hall of Fame in 1980, which later merged into the United States Bowling Congress Hall of Fame, and in 1995 she was one of the charter inductees of the PWBA Hall of Fame.