![]() ![]() Ragland married lighting director Thomas Markle Sr. ![]() In the same year, Ragland became CEO, CFO and secretary of a care home firm in Beverly Hills, called Loving Kindness Senior Care Management. In 2020, it was reported that she would teach a jewelry making course at Santa Monica College. Ragland has also worked as a yoga instructor. After passing California's licensing exam in 2015, she was a social worker for three years at the Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services clinic in Culver City. In 2011, she earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California. Ragland completed a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. Doria later worked as a travel agent and owned a small business, before filing for bankruptcy in the mid-2000s. Shortly after their divorce, Thomas Markle was left in charge of caring for their daughter. Career and education Īfter leaving Fairfax High School, Ragland worked as a temp assistant makeup artist and met her future husband, Thomas Markle, while employed on the set of the television show General Hospital. His surname came from slave-owner William Ragland, a Methodist planter and land speculator who had emigrated during the eighteenth century from Cornwall, England to North America, settling successively in Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia. According to inferred conclusions and information passed down (much of it verbally) from earlier generations, the Ragland family descend from Richard Ragland, born into slavery in Jonesboro, Georgia, in 1830 he lived long enough to experience the abolition of slavery in 1865. Ragland has two older maternal half-siblings, Joseph (known as "JJ" 1949–2021) and Saundra Johnson (born 1952), and a younger paternal half-brother, Alvin Joffrey Ragland. In 1983, her father married kindergarten teacher Ava Burrow, who is near to Ragland's age the two remained close after that marriage also ended in divorce. ![]() Her parents moved to Los Angeles when Ragland was a baby and later divorced. Ragland's maternal grandparents, James and Nettie Arnold, respectively worked as a bellhop and an elevator operator at the Blacks-only Hotel St. Doria Ragland was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to nurse Jeanette Arnold (1929–2000) and her second husband Alvin Azell Ragland (1929–2011), an antiques dealer who sold items at flea markets. ![]()
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