Dorothy Elaine (Fletcher) Dean
DEAN, FLETCHER, HANFT, SCHWERIN
Posted By: Stacy Bliesener (email)
Date: 11/25/2014 at 06:28:20
Dorothy Elaine Dean, 80, of Mediapolis, died at 3:30 PM Wednesday, May 14, 2014, at the Prairie Ridge Care & Rehabilitation in Mediapolis.
Born February 8, 1934, in Columbus City, IA, she was the daughter of Harlan Clinton and Lucy Pauline Hanft Fletcher. On June 24, 1950, she married Delbert Allen Dean in Iowa City.
Dorothy worked at Sylvania for four years and then was a school bus driver for the Mediapolis Community School for 25 years. For the past 36 years she has been a rural mail carrier for the Burlington U.S. Postal Service.
She was of the Methodist faith and spent many years as a Sunday school teacher. She was a volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America and Assistant Scoutmaster for Troop 53 and Troop 57. She was a member of the Silver Tomahawk Lodge 80 where she was known as Silver Dove. She loved camping and baking cookies for everyone. She loved cooking dinners every Sunday evening for all of her family. She dearly loved her dog, Duke that she met on her mail route.
Survivors include her husband, Delbert of Mediapolis; one son, Larry Dean of Burlington; and one daughter, Brenda Schwerin of Mediapolis; five grandchildren; Matthew Dean, Jeff Dean, Martha Dean, Skyler Schwerin, and Emily Schwerin; two great-grandchildren, Greyson Dean, and Harlan Schwerin; one sister, Linda Fletcher of KS; and one aunt, Lillian Fletcher of Wapello; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents and one brother.
Cremation has been entrusted to the care of Thielen Crematory.
A celebration of life for Dorothy will be from 5:30 PM until 9:30 PM at the large shelter house at Crapo Park. There will be a potluck dinner, please bring a covered dish to share. A sky lantern launch will be held by Lake Starker at dusk. Inurnment will be in Kossuth Cemetery, Mediapolis.
Thielen Funeral Home & Crematory is in care of the arrangements.
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