Dorli Rainey Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Rainey married an American engineer named Max Rainey in 1955 in Austria, though they would later get divorced after having a son and a daughter together. She died at a hospital in Seattle on August 12, 2022, at the age of 95.

As a member of Occupy Seattle, Rainey was on her way to a street safety meeting on November 15, 2011, but noticed large amounts of police activity around a known protest location at Fifth and Pine Avenue. Joining the protesters, Rainey was pepper-sprayed by police and other members of Occupy Seattle tried to assist her by pouring milk over her eyes. This action was photographed by news crews and the photo went viral, resulting in her becoming the face of the Occupy movement at the time. The mayor, Mike McGinn, apologized to Rainey after the incident. She gave McGinn a list of concerns about police action in the city and he told her that changes would be made to policy, particularly those involving the use of pepper spray, though the changes made were ignored by police in future incidents.

After marrying in 1955, Rainey and her husband moved to Seattle, Washington, after he was hired by Boeing. She wanted to be more involved with the social community, so gave up her practice of nursing and became a real estate agent. She also spent her time volunteering as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for abused children and worked as a sunday school teacher. In the 1970s, she joined a school board in Issaquah, Washington, but found that the other board members were a part of the John Birch Society and she successfully campaigned to have them lose their next elections to the board. In 1975, she ran for the King County Council Seat 6 in the Republican primary against incumbent Tom Forsyth after she received endorsements from the local Young Republicans group, but her campaign lost by 589 votes. Beginning in 2004 and through 2010, she spent every Thursday handing out political leaflets as a member of the Women in Black. In 2009, she ran for mayor of Seattle, but decided to leave the race due to her age.

Dorli Rainey (born Dorothea Theresia Hantich; December 12, 1926 – August 12, 2022) was an Austrian-American political activist. After being pepper-sprayed at an Occupy Seattle protest by police, she became one of the faces of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Born as Dorothea Theresia Hantich in Graz, Austria on December 12, 1926, to a railroad worker and genealogist father, Teja Hantich, and a Red Cross nurse mother, Dora (Schwarz) Hantich, Rainey spent her childhood working alongside her mother and learned nursing during World War II. Near the end of the war, she moved to Salzburg, Germany to attend medical college and then worked as a translator for the United States military in Austria. She additionally helped to organize the military’s motor pool for their activities.