Age: 67 yrs.
d/o Lester Williamson & Cora Elizabeth (Morgan) Crouse and wife of Anthony Texeira (aka Antonio Teixeira). She was a civil servant who worked at the Springfield Armory, Springfield, MA and then at Westover Air Force Base in Chicopee Falls, MA. After her only child (me, Sharon Lee) graduated from nursing school, Dorothy relocated to her beloved San Francisco, CA where she worked for the Social Security Administration. She died, doing what she loved, riding a cable car, when she fell off on a sharp turn at Jackson & Hyde Streets.
Herb Caen, well known columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, put it this way, 14 Sep 1989:
OF HUMAN INTEREST: Dorothy (Dot) Texeira, who often contributed items, came to S.F. from the East in 1966 and fell in love with everything, especially the cable cars. In fact, she took an apt. on Hyde St. simply so she could ride the cables daily to work. In her first letter home in '66, she wrote to her daughter, Sherry, in New Hampshire, that if she should die, "scatter my ashes around Union Square. That won't be me. I shall be happily riding around on cable cars, enjoying my captivating city." Yes, it came to pass. On Aug. 17, as a cable was making its sharp, " 'Out fer da coive!" turn into Hyde, she fell off the outside step, hit her head on the pavement and never regained consciousness. She died last Saturday and will be riding free as long as the cable cars keep running.
d/o Lester Williamson & Cora Elizabeth (Morgan) Crouse and wife of Anthony Texeira (aka Antonio Teixeira). She was a civil servant who worked at the Springfield Armory, Springfield, MA and then at Westover Air Force Base in Chicopee Falls, MA. After her only child (me, Sharon Lee) graduated from nursing school, Dorothy relocated to her beloved San Francisco, CA where she worked for the Social Security Administration. She died, doing what she loved, riding a cable car, when she fell off on a sharp turn at Jackson & Hyde Streets.
Herb Caen, well known columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, put it this way, 14 Sep 1989:
OF HUMAN INTEREST: Dorothy (Dot) Texeira, who often contributed items, came to S.F. from the East in 1966 and fell in love with everything, especially the cable cars. In fact, she took an apt. on Hyde St. simply so she could ride the cables daily to work. In her first letter home in '66, she wrote to her daughter, Sherry, in New Hampshire, that if she should die, "scatter my ashes around Union Square. That won't be me. I shall be happily riding around on cable cars, enjoying my captivating city." Yes, it came to pass. On Aug. 17, as a cable was making its sharp, " 'Out fer da coive!" turn into Hyde, she fell off the outside step, hit her head on the pavement and never regained consciousness. She died last Saturday and will be riding free as long as the cable cars keep running.
Age: 67 yrs.
d/o Lester Williamson & Cora Elizabeth (Morgan) Crouse and wife of Anthony Texeira (aka Antonio Teixeira). She was a civil servant who worked at the Springfield Armory, Springfield, MA and then at Westover Air Force Base in Chicopee Falls, MA. After her only child (me, Sharon Lee) graduated from nursing school, Dorothy relocated to her beloved San Francisco, CA where she worked for the Social Security Administration. She died, doing what she loved, riding a cable car, when she fell off on a sharp turn at Jackson & Hyde Streets.
Herb Caen, well known columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, put it this way, 14 Sep 1989:
OF HUMAN INTEREST: Dorothy (Dot) Texeira, who often contributed items, came to S.F. from the East in 1966 and fell in love with everything, especially the cable cars. In fact, she took an apt. on Hyde St. simply so she could ride the cables daily to work. In her first letter home in '66, she wrote to her daughter, Sherry, in New Hampshire, that if she should die, "scatter my ashes around Union Square. That won't be me. I shall be happily riding around on cable cars, enjoying my captivating city." Yes, it came to pass. On Aug. 17, as a cable was making its sharp, " 'Out fer da coive!" turn into Hyde, she fell off the outside step, hit her head on the pavement and never regained consciousness. She died last Saturday and will be riding free as long as the cable cars keep running.
d/o Lester Williamson & Cora Elizabeth (Morgan) Crouse and wife of Anthony Texeira (aka Antonio Teixeira). She was a civil servant who worked at the Springfield Armory, Springfield, MA and then at Westover Air Force Base in Chicopee Falls, MA. After her only child (me, Sharon Lee) graduated from nursing school, Dorothy relocated to her beloved San Francisco, CA where she worked for the Social Security Administration. She died, doing what she loved, riding a cable car, when she fell off on a sharp turn at Jackson & Hyde Streets.
Herb Caen, well known columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, put it this way, 14 Sep 1989:
OF HUMAN INTEREST: Dorothy (Dot) Texeira, who often contributed items, came to S.F. from the East in 1966 and fell in love with everything, especially the cable cars. In fact, she took an apt. on Hyde St. simply so she could ride the cables daily to work. In her first letter home in '66, she wrote to her daughter, Sherry, in New Hampshire, that if she should die, "scatter my ashes around Union Square. That won't be me. I shall be happily riding around on cable cars, enjoying my captivating city." Yes, it came to pass. On Aug. 17, as a cable was making its sharp, " 'Out fer da coive!" turn into Hyde, she fell off the outside step, hit her head on the pavement and never regained consciousness. She died last Saturday and will be riding free as long as the cable cars keep running.
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