Condolences
Dorothy attended Woodcliff United Church for several years and the church community would like to thank Dorothy’s friend Sarah for bringing Dorothy to church and for being such a wonderful presence in Dorothy’s life. For those of us who knew Dorothy at Woodcliff, she was an upbeat person with fun and interesting stories to share. We at Woodcliff United, express our condolences to Sarah on the loss of such a good friend.
I had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know Dorothy at Carewest. She was always happy and smiling. She was an inspiration to all of us. She had great stories and jokes to share. She will be sadly missed ❤
What can we say, we are 5000 kms away so we stayed connected with Auntie Dorothy through phone calls every week or so and made annual trips to Alberta until COVID put everything on hold.
As children we visited our grandparents and Joe’s siblings (Bonnie’s Dad) including his two youngest sisters, Gladys and Dorothy. It seems it wasn’t until after her sister Gladys passed away in 1991 that Dorothy came into her own. She didn’t waste any time letting us know her name was “DOROTHY” not Auntie “Dot” as we had been calling her for decades. Her personality came shining through. As adults we really got to know her and appreciate her dry sense of humour. When we called and Auntie Dorothy picked up the phone, before we knew it, she was telling a joke off the top of her head. She never failed to make us chuckle, if not laugh out loud. Her other passion was eating out. It was her nature to want a little coaxing but when she said yes, Tony Roma’s or Swiss Chalet were top of her list. She even paid the bill a few times. We felt pretty special. On one occasion at Swiss Chalet my sister Louella and her husband Wally Komadina, our friend Gloria Tithecott and Sarah joined us with Dorothy. Good food, good visit!
Dorothy never failed to acknowledge our birthdays and her cards were the first to arrive in the mail.
A number of years ago, we doubted Auntie Dorothy would make it to 90 but with Sarah’s dedication to her health and with the help Sarah enlisted from relatives and friends the environment at 63 Gainsborough SW turned around and Dorothy flourished – we thought she’d make her centennial, no problem, but not to be. That said, we will be forever grateful for the extra time Dorothy was with us.
Being absent from Alberta has been hard – we wanted so badly to make a trip to see Dorothy. We are thankful to family and friends who took time to call or be with her through these very difficult months.
Dorothy was loved and we will miss her dearly – like to think she’s playing baseball with her brothers.
Bonnie (nee Boothman) & Dan Cameron
Moncton New Brunswick
My Mother, Florence Anderson (nee Thomson) became a colleague of Dorothy's in 1946. I have a nice photograph of Mom
and Dorothy with a bowling trophy captioned C.P. Communications Night Staff league champs "Wildcats" with 4 other members. My mom was only a few months younger than Dorothy, but was Mom was delayed entrance into CP by her attendance at Garbutt Business College in Calgary until 1946. My parents, Cliff and Flo were friends and colleagues of many of the Boothman family.
I met Dorothy myself in 1971 when I started to work at CNCP Telecommunications as a bike messenger. I eventually got a clerical job in the telegram office, and worked there until the Calgary telegram office closed in 1983. I managed to hang on to technical jobs at the company there until I retired in 2013 after a 40 year career. My memories of Dorothy are very postitive, she was a great character and was dearly loved by all her colleagues at work. Wonderful memories of her, many she rest in peace.
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