Dorothy Wooder

DOROTHY WOODER

Morley

Dorothy Maxine Wooder, 90, died Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, in her home. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 3, at Goettsch Funeral Home in Anamosa. Pastor Barb Krueger will officiate at the service. Visitation will

be from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, at the funeral home. Burial will be at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery in Cedar Rapids.

Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com.

Dorothy Maxine Jackson Wooder was born July 9, 1923, to Leo and Euretta Underwood Jackson in their home in Morley,

Iowa. She attended and graduated from Morley

Consolidated School in 1941. She helped her folks in their grocery store and barber shop until marrying George Wooder on May 29, 1943. They bought their home in Morley and she helped him with his petroleum truck route. A son, Leo Dale, was born Sept. 22, 1946.

Dorothy spent her entire life in Morley, was substitute postal clerk in the Morley post office for 30 years and welcomed a grandson, Lane, into her life. Her son and grandson meant everything to her; she took care of her grandson when he was small while his mom worked.

Her husband, George, passed away in 1974, and she was his widow for 39 years.

She was always proud to tell everyone she lived in the home where she was born as not many people can say that.

She was a member of the Morley First United

Methodist Church, where she had been pianist for 58 years, and was a Sunday school teacher and treasurer of the church for many years. She enjoyed singing and

entertaining for community events and programs.

She liked to sit in her east window, waving to her son each morning as he left for work, watching the changing seasons come and go. She loved to mow her yard and enjoy her many flowers.

Dorothy was never very far from her home; her family made her world.

On April 3, 2010, her happiness collapsed when her son, Dale, died suddenly; it broke her heart.

She leaves to mourn her passing her daughter-in-law, Sue of Morley; her grandson, Lane of Atlanta, Ga.; a brother, Bill of Eloy, Ariz.; a nephew, Bill Jackson and wife Felicia of Chandler, Ariz.; and many dear friends.

Preceding her in death were her son; her husband; her parents; and a sister-in-law, Marian Jackson.

In lieu of flowers, a memorial fund has been established.