Montvilaitė-Dautartienė Danutė Ona

Montvilaitė-Dautartienė Danutė Ona (1927-2019) was born in Obšrutai village, Pilviškiai parish, Vilkaviškis county (father – Pijus Montvila). In 1938, she graduated from a five-year school in Pilviškiai. In 1939 she enrolled and in 1945 graduated from Marijampolė II Gymnasium. On 25 July 1945, she applied for admission to the Department of Biology of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Vilnius University. On 2 December of the same year, she applied for a transfer from the Department of Biology of the Faculty of Natural Sciences to the Department of Pharmacy of the Faculty of Medicine. The application was favourably received, but Danutė Ona was not formally transferred. She only passed first-year exams in pharmacy. In July 1946, she again applied for transfer to the second year of the Department of Pharmacy of the Faculty of Medicine. Although the notes on the application were contradictory (“Agreed” and “Not allowed”), she eventually became a student at the Department of Pharmacy. In 1948, her parents were deported. On 19 April 1949, an order was signed to “exclude her from the student body” for not registering for the spring semester. On 25 April of the same year, a second order was signed to dismiss Danutė Ona from her position as a cloakroom attendant in the Department of Economy “at her own request”. In 1952, Vilnius University submitted a letter to the head of the Department of Cultural and Educational Institutions of the Vilnius Oblast, confirming the removal of Danutė Ona Montvilaitė, a fourth-year student, from the list of pharmacy students for failure to register for the spring semester. After her studies were interrupted, Danutė Ona remained in Vilnius, and the entire Montvilas family had already been deported. In 1952, she married writer Vladas Dautartas. From the early 1960s, she worked in the library of the Writers’ Union.

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