A couple of point for clarification:
1. IIRC, the circumstances surrounding Longview's suicide (on her way to/home from a visit with her daughter) weren't something that has been confirmed, but rather something that an early poster heard from someone who heard from someone type of deal. We don't know if the suicide was related to her divorce, custody issues, her identity, or anything for that matter.
2. There is someone in Longview with the same name as Longview Doe's married name, which is not the same name that she applied for the SSN back in 1988 with. That further complicates things when searching for information on her, but it doesn't indicate that Doe stole this woman's identity. If memory serves, we don't know if she lifted a name from someone, or if she invented it because she liked the sound of it. All we know is that she applied for an SSN with the name, which has - somehow- proven to be a false identity.
3. I don't know if the family was well-known, but they were business owners with strong roots in the town going back to at least Longview Doe's in-laws generation. To further complicate things again, the other woman with the same married name as Doe also comes from a family of business owners with Longview roots.
4. I don't know about Doe being born a man. There is so much that we don't know about her that nothing would shock me, but I agree that it would probably be something that was mentioned in NamUs. She did have her daughter later than some women, and further into her marriage than many women, but I didn't see any indication that she was adopted. At this point there are so many unknowns that any theory works on the surface!
I should also add that we don't know *when* her identity was confirmed false - before or after her death. As a result, we don't know what part of her obituary - if any - is accurate in terms of Arizona roots, education, etc.