She was a nurse who worked by her husband’s side in his office for many years but later majored in anthropology from UW-Oshkosh after her kids were grown. Muriel Isabel Dafoe (nee Sprissler) (mother) He enjoyed his life as a husband and raised eight kids in a love and fun-filled household. Above his career achievements, family was his greatest joy. William was highly trained as a surgeon but to his patients, he was their beloved family doctor. While in medical school, Papa Dafoe met his wife, Muriel – a nursing student at the time they were married secretly after a few years of courtship (because nurses-in-training at that time were not allowed to marry before graduation) and the young married couple relocated to Rochester, Minnesota where William got advanced surgical training at the Mayo Clinic. He was a physician who studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard Medical School.
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