Long-time Chadwick resident and community booster, Dorotha Mae Smith, died April 17, 2013, at Manor Court in Freeport at the age of 101. Born in Dixon, Illinois, in 1911, Dorotha lived almost her entire life in Chadwick and the Northwest Illinois region except for a number of years in Butte, Montana, and Harlan, Iowa, and the years of her service in the Coast Guard during the Second World War.
As a result of that service, Dorotha, known to many of her friends and family as Dot, was for a time the oldest living war veteran in Carroll County. She was the first female commander of the Chadwick American Legion Post, and the second woman commander in the state of Illinois.
Honored for community service by the Masonic Lodge and the DAR, she was instrumental in establishing the Chadwick Public Library and served as trustee of the library for a decade. She compiled the Chadwick High School Alumni Directory, served as co-Chairman of the Bi-Centennial Celebration, and as Coordinator of the Chadwick Centennial.
A graduate of Frances Shimer College, Dorotha taught school for a number of years in the Chadwick – Milledgeville area, and following her military service was employed at the Savanna Army Depot for 26 years. She served on the board of directors for the Farmer's State Bank of Chadwick and Mount Carroll, the Rolling Hills Progress Center, and Timber Lake Playhouse. Visiting actors and directors at the playhouse frequently lived with her in Chadwick during their time at the theater. In 2010 she was elected to the Timber Lake Playhouse Hall of Fame.
With former Chadwick High School teacher, Frank McCann, Dot was an important force in the Chadwick Boosters Association, which provided lights for the high school baseball field using poles from the defunct ski jump at Terrapin Ridge.
She was a 50-year member of the Eastern Star and served as Worthy Matron, and she was an active member of the Carroll County Council on Aging, the Carroll County Historical Society, and was a charter member of WIMSA (Women in Military Service for America) and the Oakville Country Club.
She was preceded in death by her husband Jewell Reynolds Smith, Sr., her parents, W. J. and Eva (Brink) Schreiner, and a sister Bethel. She is survived by a sister, Jean Unzicker, of Rockford, IL, a son, Reynolds, and his wife, Linda, of Durham, NC, and a grandson, Lincoln, of Boston, MA.
A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, April 27, 2013, at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chadwick. Burial will be in the Chadwick Cemetery. A memorial fund has been established in Dorotha's memory.
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As a result of that service, Dorotha, known to many of her friends and family as Dot, was for a time the oldest living war veteran in Carroll County. She was the first female commander of the Chadwick American Legion Post, and the second woman commander in the state of Illinois.
Honored for community service by the Masonic Lodge and the DAR, she was instrumental in establishing the Chadwick Public Library and served as trustee of the library for a decade. She compiled the Chadwick High School Alumni Directory, served as co-Chairman of the Bi-Centennial Celebration, and as Coordinator of the Chadwick Centennial.
A graduate of Frances Shimer College, Dorotha taught school for a number of years in the Chadwick – Milledgeville area, and following her military service was employed at the Savanna Army Depot for 26 years. She served on the board of directors for the Farmer's State Bank of Chadwick and Mount Carroll, the Rolling Hills Progress Center, and Timber Lake Playhouse. Visiting actors and directors at the playhouse frequently lived with her in Chadwick during their time at the theater. In 2010 she was elected to the Timber Lake Playhouse Hall of Fame.
With former Chadwick High School teacher, Frank McCann, Dot was an important force in the Chadwick Boosters Association, which provided lights for the high school baseball field using poles from the defunct ski jump at Terrapin Ridge.
She was a 50-year member of the Eastern Star and served as Worthy Matron, and she was an active member of the Carroll County Council on Aging, the Carroll County Historical Society, and was a charter member of WIMSA (Women in Military Service for America) and the Oakville Country Club.
She was preceded in death by her husband Jewell Reynolds Smith, Sr., her parents, W. J. and Eva (Brink) Schreiner, and a sister Bethel. She is survived by a sister, Jean Unzicker, of Rockford, IL, a son, Reynolds, and his wife, Linda, of Durham, NC, and a grandson, Lincoln, of Boston, MA.
A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, April 27, 2013, at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chadwick. Burial will be in the Chadwick Cemetery. A memorial fund has been established in Dorotha's memory.
awjonesfuneralhome.com
Long-time Chadwick resident and community booster, Dorotha Mae Smith, died April 17, 2013, at Manor Court in Freeport at the age of 101. Born in Dixon, Illinois, in 1911, Dorotha lived almost her entire life in Chadwick and the Northwest Illinois region except for a number of years in Butte, Montana, and Harlan, Iowa, and the years of her service in the Coast Guard during the Second World War.
As a result of that service, Dorotha, known to many of her friends and family as Dot, was for a time the oldest living war veteran in Carroll County. She was the first female commander of the Chadwick American Legion Post, and the second woman commander in the state of Illinois.
Honored for community service by the Masonic Lodge and the DAR, she was instrumental in establishing the Chadwick Public Library and served as trustee of the library for a decade. She compiled the Chadwick High School Alumni Directory, served as co-Chairman of the Bi-Centennial Celebration, and as Coordinator of the Chadwick Centennial.
A graduate of Frances Shimer College, Dorotha taught school for a number of years in the Chadwick – Milledgeville area, and following her military service was employed at the Savanna Army Depot for 26 years. She served on the board of directors for the Farmer's State Bank of Chadwick and Mount Carroll, the Rolling Hills Progress Center, and Timber Lake Playhouse. Visiting actors and directors at the playhouse frequently lived with her in Chadwick during their time at the theater. In 2010 she was elected to the Timber Lake Playhouse Hall of Fame.
With former Chadwick High School teacher, Frank McCann, Dot was an important force in the Chadwick Boosters Association, which provided lights for the high school baseball field using poles from the defunct ski jump at Terrapin Ridge.
She was a 50-year member of the Eastern Star and served as Worthy Matron, and she was an active member of the Carroll County Council on Aging, the Carroll County Historical Society, and was a charter member of WIMSA (Women in Military Service for America) and the Oakville Country Club.
She was preceded in death by her husband Jewell Reynolds Smith, Sr., her parents, W. J. and Eva (Brink) Schreiner, and a sister Bethel. She is survived by a sister, Jean Unzicker, of Rockford, IL, a son, Reynolds, and his wife, Linda, of Durham, NC, and a grandson, Lincoln, of Boston, MA.
A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, April 27, 2013, at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chadwick. Burial will be in the Chadwick Cemetery. A memorial fund has been established in Dorotha's memory.
awjonesfuneralhome.com
As a result of that service, Dorotha, known to many of her friends and family as Dot, was for a time the oldest living war veteran in Carroll County. She was the first female commander of the Chadwick American Legion Post, and the second woman commander in the state of Illinois.
Honored for community service by the Masonic Lodge and the DAR, she was instrumental in establishing the Chadwick Public Library and served as trustee of the library for a decade. She compiled the Chadwick High School Alumni Directory, served as co-Chairman of the Bi-Centennial Celebration, and as Coordinator of the Chadwick Centennial.
A graduate of Frances Shimer College, Dorotha taught school for a number of years in the Chadwick – Milledgeville area, and following her military service was employed at the Savanna Army Depot for 26 years. She served on the board of directors for the Farmer's State Bank of Chadwick and Mount Carroll, the Rolling Hills Progress Center, and Timber Lake Playhouse. Visiting actors and directors at the playhouse frequently lived with her in Chadwick during their time at the theater. In 2010 she was elected to the Timber Lake Playhouse Hall of Fame.
With former Chadwick High School teacher, Frank McCann, Dot was an important force in the Chadwick Boosters Association, which provided lights for the high school baseball field using poles from the defunct ski jump at Terrapin Ridge.
She was a 50-year member of the Eastern Star and served as Worthy Matron, and she was an active member of the Carroll County Council on Aging, the Carroll County Historical Society, and was a charter member of WIMSA (Women in Military Service for America) and the Oakville Country Club.
She was preceded in death by her husband Jewell Reynolds Smith, Sr., her parents, W. J. and Eva (Brink) Schreiner, and a sister Bethel. She is survived by a sister, Jean Unzicker, of Rockford, IL, a son, Reynolds, and his wife, Linda, of Durham, NC, and a grandson, Lincoln, of Boston, MA.
A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, April 27, 2013, at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chadwick. Burial will be in the Chadwick Cemetery. A memorial fund has been established in Dorotha's memory.
awjonesfuneralhome.com
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