Is 'despite' correctly used in the sentence?
Dorris served in the households of her aunts without asking for any payment. Despite the free services she rendered, they called her “the most worthless of all housemaids.”
Rommel Is 'despite' correctly used in the sentence? Yes. "Dorris" is a rather rare spelling of the woman's first name.
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RommelIs 'despite' correctly used in the sentence?
Yes.
"Dorris" is a rather rare spelling of the woman's first name. Usually it's Doris. (I doubt you could possibly mean the city of Dorris, California.