Dorothy Louise (Parish) Aylor, 85, of Keosauqua, died Monday, Sept. 21st, 2020, at the University of Iowa Hospital following a heart attack at her home.
She was born on Aug. 6, 1935, on her family’s farm in Luray, Mo., to Charley and Doris Parish.
She married Joseph Norris Aylor on May 23, 1954, when he returned from U.S. Army service in Korea. Together they raised two children, Steven Brent and Teresa Louise.
Dorothy and Joe left Keosauqua to live in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the early 1960s where Joe learned a trade in refrigeration and pipefitting and found employment at the Nevada Nuclear Test Range.
They returned to Keosauqua in 1966, walking away from Joe’s pension, to satisfy overwhelming homesickness for Iowa.
Dorothy attended elementary school in a one-room school house in Granger, Mo., and enrolled in high school in Keosauqua by taking on a nanny position with a local family. She graduated from Keosauqua High School in 1953 and in that same year was crowned queen at the annual Sheep Empire Days celebration.
Before marriage, she was employed at the Van Buren County Register newspaper.
Dorothy was a devoted stay-at-home mother and provided a magical childhood for her children. She cooked a hot homemade dinner virtually every night everyday of the year until the death of her husband and is famous among her children and grandchildren for her Sunday homemade beef and noodles , which she made in the same manner as her mother and grandmother. Her daughter and granddaughter now prepare the same dish.
When her children were older, Dorothy worked as a postal clerk at the Keosauqua Post Office.
Dorothy had a volunteer spirit, taking on roles as homeroom mother in her children’s classrooms, Sunday school teacher, children’s choir director, Bible School teacher and she sang in adult church choirs at both the Christian and Methodist churches in Keosauqua where she held dual memberships. She served on citizen advisory boards for Friends of Lacey Keosauqua State Park, the Good Samaritan Nursing Home and the Riverview Country Club, of which she and Joe were among the inauguaral members in the year it opened.
She and Joe loved to play golf and in early retirement greatly enjoyed playing travel golf with other local couples who put their golf carts on trailers and drove around southeast Iowa to play in scramble tournaments.
Dorothy loved playing cards in a local Canasta Club and was a member of the Mother’s Club. She has been most active recently in the United Methodist Church Women’s organization, providing funeral meals and cooking at the church’s food stand at community events and fundraisers.
Dorothy experienced love again late in life when a friend and neighbor, Bob Muir, became her beau. They shared a church pew, tomato garden, restaurant hopping, and daily life tasks with joy.
Dorothy is survived by her son, retired Col. Steven Aylor (Jeannie) of Layton, Utah; her daughter Teresa Aylor Silver (Mitchell) of Milford, Mich.; six grandchildren Erica Silver Harrison (Genelle) of Broomfield, Colo., Ty Silver of Milford, Mich., Landon Aylor (Lexi) of Layton, Utah; Marisa Aylor of Salt Lake City, Utah; Ryne Silver of Broomfield, Colo.; Aric Silver of Fort Collins, Colo.; three great-grandchildren Beau, Wyatt and River Aylor of Layton, Utah; two step-grandsons Casey Ripple (Stacy) of Helena, Montana; Rhett Williams (Lana) of Ogden, Utah; and two step-great-grandchildren Reece and Caden Williams. She is also survived by a brother, Don Parish of Colo, Iowa; numerous nieces and nephews; and a companion Robert Muir of Keosauqua.
Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Joe in 1996, her toddler brother Darrell in 1943, and her brother Danny “Bucky” Parish in 2014.
Due to the pandemic, the family held a private family burial at Fellows Cemetery where her body was interned next to Joe.
Memorials can be made to Keosauqua Christian Church, Keosauqua United Methodist Church or Friends of Lacy Keosauqua State Park and mailed to Pedrick Funeral Home.
Condolences can be mailed to Teresa Aylor Silver at 559 Valley Drive, Milford, MI 48381.
Pedrick Funeral Home.
She was born on Aug. 6, 1935, on her family’s farm in Luray, Mo., to Charley and Doris Parish.
She married Joseph Norris Aylor on May 23, 1954, when he returned from U.S. Army service in Korea. Together they raised two children, Steven Brent and Teresa Louise.
Dorothy and Joe left Keosauqua to live in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the early 1960s where Joe learned a trade in refrigeration and pipefitting and found employment at the Nevada Nuclear Test Range.
They returned to Keosauqua in 1966, walking away from Joe’s pension, to satisfy overwhelming homesickness for Iowa.
Dorothy attended elementary school in a one-room school house in Granger, Mo., and enrolled in high school in Keosauqua by taking on a nanny position with a local family. She graduated from Keosauqua High School in 1953 and in that same year was crowned queen at the annual Sheep Empire Days celebration.
Before marriage, she was employed at the Van Buren County Register newspaper.
Dorothy was a devoted stay-at-home mother and provided a magical childhood for her children. She cooked a hot homemade dinner virtually every night everyday of the year until the death of her husband and is famous among her children and grandchildren for her Sunday homemade beef and noodles , which she made in the same manner as her mother and grandmother. Her daughter and granddaughter now prepare the same dish.
When her children were older, Dorothy worked as a postal clerk at the Keosauqua Post Office.
Dorothy had a volunteer spirit, taking on roles as homeroom mother in her children’s classrooms, Sunday school teacher, children’s choir director, Bible School teacher and she sang in adult church choirs at both the Christian and Methodist churches in Keosauqua where she held dual memberships. She served on citizen advisory boards for Friends of Lacey Keosauqua State Park, the Good Samaritan Nursing Home and the Riverview Country Club, of which she and Joe were among the inauguaral members in the year it opened.
She and Joe loved to play golf and in early retirement greatly enjoyed playing travel golf with other local couples who put their golf carts on trailers and drove around southeast Iowa to play in scramble tournaments.
Dorothy loved playing cards in a local Canasta Club and was a member of the Mother’s Club. She has been most active recently in the United Methodist Church Women’s organization, providing funeral meals and cooking at the church’s food stand at community events and fundraisers.
Dorothy experienced love again late in life when a friend and neighbor, Bob Muir, became her beau. They shared a church pew, tomato garden, restaurant hopping, and daily life tasks with joy.
Dorothy is survived by her son, retired Col. Steven Aylor (Jeannie) of Layton, Utah; her daughter Teresa Aylor Silver (Mitchell) of Milford, Mich.; six grandchildren Erica Silver Harrison (Genelle) of Broomfield, Colo., Ty Silver of Milford, Mich., Landon Aylor (Lexi) of Layton, Utah; Marisa Aylor of Salt Lake City, Utah; Ryne Silver of Broomfield, Colo.; Aric Silver of Fort Collins, Colo.; three great-grandchildren Beau, Wyatt and River Aylor of Layton, Utah; two step-grandsons Casey Ripple (Stacy) of Helena, Montana; Rhett Williams (Lana) of Ogden, Utah; and two step-great-grandchildren Reece and Caden Williams. She is also survived by a brother, Don Parish of Colo, Iowa; numerous nieces and nephews; and a companion Robert Muir of Keosauqua.
Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Joe in 1996, her toddler brother Darrell in 1943, and her brother Danny “Bucky” Parish in 2014.
Due to the pandemic, the family held a private family burial at Fellows Cemetery where her body was interned next to Joe.
Memorials can be made to Keosauqua Christian Church, Keosauqua United Methodist Church or Friends of Lacy Keosauqua State Park and mailed to Pedrick Funeral Home.
Condolences can be mailed to Teresa Aylor Silver at 559 Valley Drive, Milford, MI 48381.
Pedrick Funeral Home.
Dorothy Louise (Parish) Aylor, 85, of Keosauqua, died Monday, Sept. 21st, 2020, at the University of Iowa Hospital following a heart attack at her home.
She was born on Aug. 6, 1935, on her family’s farm in Luray, Mo., to Charley and Doris Parish.
She married Joseph Norris Aylor on May 23, 1954, when he returned from U.S. Army service in Korea. Together they raised two children, Steven Brent and Teresa Louise.
Dorothy and Joe left Keosauqua to live in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the early 1960s where Joe learned a trade in refrigeration and pipefitting and found employment at the Nevada Nuclear Test Range.
They returned to Keosauqua in 1966, walking away from Joe’s pension, to satisfy overwhelming homesickness for Iowa.
Dorothy attended elementary school in a one-room school house in Granger, Mo., and enrolled in high school in Keosauqua by taking on a nanny position with a local family. She graduated from Keosauqua High School in 1953 and in that same year was crowned queen at the annual Sheep Empire Days celebration.
Before marriage, she was employed at the Van Buren County Register newspaper.
Dorothy was a devoted stay-at-home mother and provided a magical childhood for her children. She cooked a hot homemade dinner virtually every night everyday of the year until the death of her husband and is famous among her children and grandchildren for her Sunday homemade beef and noodles , which she made in the same manner as her mother and grandmother. Her daughter and granddaughter now prepare the same dish.
When her children were older, Dorothy worked as a postal clerk at the Keosauqua Post Office.
Dorothy had a volunteer spirit, taking on roles as homeroom mother in her children’s classrooms, Sunday school teacher, children’s choir director, Bible School teacher and she sang in adult church choirs at both the Christian and Methodist churches in Keosauqua where she held dual memberships. She served on citizen advisory boards for Friends of Lacey Keosauqua State Park, the Good Samaritan Nursing Home and the Riverview Country Club, of which she and Joe were among the inauguaral members in the year it opened.
She and Joe loved to play golf and in early retirement greatly enjoyed playing travel golf with other local couples who put their golf carts on trailers and drove around southeast Iowa to play in scramble tournaments.
Dorothy loved playing cards in a local Canasta Club and was a member of the Mother’s Club. She has been most active recently in the United Methodist Church Women’s organization, providing funeral meals and cooking at the church’s food stand at community events and fundraisers.
Dorothy experienced love again late in life when a friend and neighbor, Bob Muir, became her beau. They shared a church pew, tomato garden, restaurant hopping, and daily life tasks with joy.
Dorothy is survived by her son, retired Col. Steven Aylor (Jeannie) of Layton, Utah; her daughter Teresa Aylor Silver (Mitchell) of Milford, Mich.; six grandchildren Erica Silver Harrison (Genelle) of Broomfield, Colo., Ty Silver of Milford, Mich., Landon Aylor (Lexi) of Layton, Utah; Marisa Aylor of Salt Lake City, Utah; Ryne Silver of Broomfield, Colo.; Aric Silver of Fort Collins, Colo.; three great-grandchildren Beau, Wyatt and River Aylor of Layton, Utah; two step-grandsons Casey Ripple (Stacy) of Helena, Montana; Rhett Williams (Lana) of Ogden, Utah; and two step-great-grandchildren Reece and Caden Williams. She is also survived by a brother, Don Parish of Colo, Iowa; numerous nieces and nephews; and a companion Robert Muir of Keosauqua.
Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Joe in 1996, her toddler brother Darrell in 1943, and her brother Danny “Bucky” Parish in 2014.
Due to the pandemic, the family held a private family burial at Fellows Cemetery where her body was interned next to Joe.
Memorials can be made to Keosauqua Christian Church, Keosauqua United Methodist Church or Friends of Lacy Keosauqua State Park and mailed to Pedrick Funeral Home.
Condolences can be mailed to Teresa Aylor Silver at 559 Valley Drive, Milford, MI 48381.
Pedrick Funeral Home.
She was born on Aug. 6, 1935, on her family’s farm in Luray, Mo., to Charley and Doris Parish.
She married Joseph Norris Aylor on May 23, 1954, when he returned from U.S. Army service in Korea. Together they raised two children, Steven Brent and Teresa Louise.
Dorothy and Joe left Keosauqua to live in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the early 1960s where Joe learned a trade in refrigeration and pipefitting and found employment at the Nevada Nuclear Test Range.
They returned to Keosauqua in 1966, walking away from Joe’s pension, to satisfy overwhelming homesickness for Iowa.
Dorothy attended elementary school in a one-room school house in Granger, Mo., and enrolled in high school in Keosauqua by taking on a nanny position with a local family. She graduated from Keosauqua High School in 1953 and in that same year was crowned queen at the annual Sheep Empire Days celebration.
Before marriage, she was employed at the Van Buren County Register newspaper.
Dorothy was a devoted stay-at-home mother and provided a magical childhood for her children. She cooked a hot homemade dinner virtually every night everyday of the year until the death of her husband and is famous among her children and grandchildren for her Sunday homemade beef and noodles , which she made in the same manner as her mother and grandmother. Her daughter and granddaughter now prepare the same dish.
When her children were older, Dorothy worked as a postal clerk at the Keosauqua Post Office.
Dorothy had a volunteer spirit, taking on roles as homeroom mother in her children’s classrooms, Sunday school teacher, children’s choir director, Bible School teacher and she sang in adult church choirs at both the Christian and Methodist churches in Keosauqua where she held dual memberships. She served on citizen advisory boards for Friends of Lacey Keosauqua State Park, the Good Samaritan Nursing Home and the Riverview Country Club, of which she and Joe were among the inauguaral members in the year it opened.
She and Joe loved to play golf and in early retirement greatly enjoyed playing travel golf with other local couples who put their golf carts on trailers and drove around southeast Iowa to play in scramble tournaments.
Dorothy loved playing cards in a local Canasta Club and was a member of the Mother’s Club. She has been most active recently in the United Methodist Church Women’s organization, providing funeral meals and cooking at the church’s food stand at community events and fundraisers.
Dorothy experienced love again late in life when a friend and neighbor, Bob Muir, became her beau. They shared a church pew, tomato garden, restaurant hopping, and daily life tasks with joy.
Dorothy is survived by her son, retired Col. Steven Aylor (Jeannie) of Layton, Utah; her daughter Teresa Aylor Silver (Mitchell) of Milford, Mich.; six grandchildren Erica Silver Harrison (Genelle) of Broomfield, Colo., Ty Silver of Milford, Mich., Landon Aylor (Lexi) of Layton, Utah; Marisa Aylor of Salt Lake City, Utah; Ryne Silver of Broomfield, Colo.; Aric Silver of Fort Collins, Colo.; three great-grandchildren Beau, Wyatt and River Aylor of Layton, Utah; two step-grandsons Casey Ripple (Stacy) of Helena, Montana; Rhett Williams (Lana) of Ogden, Utah; and two step-great-grandchildren Reece and Caden Williams. She is also survived by a brother, Don Parish of Colo, Iowa; numerous nieces and nephews; and a companion Robert Muir of Keosauqua.
Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Joe in 1996, her toddler brother Darrell in 1943, and her brother Danny “Bucky” Parish in 2014.
Due to the pandemic, the family held a private family burial at Fellows Cemetery where her body was interned next to Joe.
Memorials can be made to Keosauqua Christian Church, Keosauqua United Methodist Church or Friends of Lacy Keosauqua State Park and mailed to Pedrick Funeral Home.
Condolences can be mailed to Teresa Aylor Silver at 559 Valley Drive, Milford, MI 48381.
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