One of Dorothy's Paintings

One of Dorothy's Paintings

Dorothy's Nursing Home in Pennsylvania

From Anne Edwards (Dorothy's Neice)

Dorothy was a part of my extended family as long as I can remember. My memories of her start when she was a young secretary at Christ Episcopal Church in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Before that she had gone to secretarial school and worked for the Prudential Insurance Co. She lived with her mother, father, grandmother, great aunt, sister, and brother around the corner from my home.

She was a talented violinist and played with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the orchestra of the Montclair Operetta Club. She had hoped to go to Julliard to study music but went to secretarial school instead. She also loved to go on vacations and paint the ocean.
She moved to Keyport, New Jersey, with the family when her brother became a minister there and stayed with his family until he moved to New York where she got her own apartment.
While in New York she worked for the Hearst Publications, writing and selling advertising for their sporting publications ("Sports Afield" and "Field and Stream"). She retired from that job when her brother moved to Tuckerton, New Jersey, and she bought a house there in Mystic Shores.
Dorothy was very close to her family, especially her brother Jim. She also came to visit our family and her sister Florence's on weekends. She was also very fond of Frank and Marion Raven and visited them in Washington. When she moved to Mystic Shores I often took my mother to visit her.
When her brother Jim remarried and moved to Pennsylvania she followed him there and lived in his new wife Helen's farm house and I visited her there and brought her to her sister Florence's home in Woodstock.
For the last six years she has been unable to walk and has been in a nursing home in Pennsylvania. She kept her sense of humor, her love of food, and her love of family and the pets in the nursing home.
While I was visiting Florence, she fell into a coma and died on November 24 at the age of 94. Jim and Helen are both too ill to do much about her funeral, so one of his adopted sons (Ernesto) who lives in New York will see that she is buried in Greenwood Cemetary in New York.

From Laurel Peterson (Rippey) Grand Niece to Dorothy

I remember Dorothy because she was very close to my grandmother, Grace Soutar. Dorothy lived in New York City most of her adult life. She often spent weekends visiting Grace in Montclair.

I remember Dorothy as always being very kind and jovial, always finding something to laugh about. I liked her very much.

I have a beautiful painting hanging in my home which Dorothy painted. It is an acrylic ocean scene. Visitors have admired it asking, "Who is the artist Dorothy?" - as she did not sign her full name.

I will always remember your smiling face, Aunt Dorothy. Goodbye for now.

From Cheryl Marshall (Rippey) - Grand Neice to Dorothy

My early memories are of Dorothy coming over to Nannas and always bringing a box of Russell Stover chocolates. She always seemed to prefer hanging out with us "kids". Many times we would take walks, look at the flowers and just plain talk. I always felt she was someone who would listen to me and stick up for me. I loved to hear her laugh and she laughed a lot. I did not know her well and wish I knew her better.