Dorothy Catherine Fontana (1939 - 2019)

Born 25 Mar 1939 in Sussex, New Jersey, United States

Ancestors

Died 2 Dec 2019 at age 80 in Los Angeles, California, United States

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D. C. Fontana has Italian Roots.

Biography

D. C. Fontana is Notable.

Dorothy Catherine Fontana was born on March 25, 1939 in Sussex, New Jersey to Charles "Carl" Fontana and Catherine Norman

She married Dennis J Skotak on 17 Oct 1981 in Los Angeles, California, USA^[1] It is not believed that she had any children.

She died in Los Angeles on December 2, 2019 after a short illness.

D.C. was known primarily for her work on Star Trek, although she also worked on several other television series. She created original scripts, edited other person's scripts, and even worked as a producer on several television series.

She wrote several novels and was awarded the Morgan Cox award in 2002 by the Writers Guild of America. She was also inducted into the American Screenwriters Hall of Fame in both 1997 and 2002.

Sources

1. ↑ "California, Marriage Index, 1960-1985," Ancestry.com. Ancestry Record 1144 #5880420

See also:

• Find A Grave: Memorial #205201519 accessed on 05 Dec 2019
• Wikipedia: D. C. Fontana
• This WikiTree profile is referenced from Wikidata: Item Q450706, en:Wikipedia
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4TR-MC3 : 29 July 2019), Dorothy Fontana in household of Carl Fontana, Haledon Borough, Passaic, New Jersey, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 16-52, sheet 16B, line 56, family 400, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2376.