Wild, Dorothy Mae

Dorothy Mae Wild, 92, died Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010, at the Keystone Nursing Care Center following an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, at St. John Lutheran Church in Keystone. with the Rev. Dr. James Eggert officiating. Interment will be held at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery in Cedar Rapids. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Phillips Funeral Home Chapel in Keystone.

A memorial fund has been established.

Dorothy was born Jan. 14, 1918, at Bloomfield, Iowa, to Raleigh and Willie (Benge) DeVault and attended Swamp Angel School at the age of four. In 1935, she graduated from Bloomfield Iowa High School and from Bloomfield Junior College in 1937. In 1944, she received her RN degree from the University of Iowa.

On Feb. 3, 1946, she married Vernon Ray Wild at Marion. Early in her marriage, she worked at St. Luke's in Cedar Rapids and as a private nurse with injured veterans. Dorothy and Vernon moved to Keystone in 1968. Dorothy's nursing career included serving as a public health nurse, an evening charge nurse at Keystone Nursing Care Center, and an instructor of Nurse's Aide Courses. In 1990, she retired at age 72. She was a member of St. John Lutheran Church in Keystone.

She is survived by her sons, John (Linda) Wild of Brandenburg, Ky., Robert (Jean) Wild of Newhall, Richard Ray (Dorothy J.) Wild of Keystone, and Larry Wild of Kentucky; her daughter, Linda M. Wild or Randall; 17 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; her sister, Mary Lucille DeVault of Ottumwa; her sister-in-law, Ruth DeVault of Marion; and Nancy and Steve McGrew of Van Horne and their children, who Dorothy considered her family.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her great-grandson, Blake Stull; and her brother, Donald DeVault.

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