PROFITT, Dorothy Arce Kauffman Gray

PROFFITT, KUNAMAN, ARCE, ESSLEY, KAUFFMAN, GRAY, BEAR, WEBB, DWYER, REINHARDT, WEED, HARPSTER

Posted By: Ann Miller White (email)
Date: 1/28/2006 at 14:01:37

OBITUARY: Winfield Beacon/Wayland News; 1/20/2000

Dorothy M. Proffitt, 72, Muscatine, died Saturday, January 15, 2000, following a lengthy illness. Funeral services were held at 10:00 A.M. Wednesday, January 19th, at the St. Mathias Catholic Church; Muscatine, with the Rev. John P. Gallagher officiating. Visitation was held from 4 -8 PM on Tuesday at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home in Muscatine. Burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery. A memorial fund has been established in her name.

Mrs. Proffitt was born March 28, 1927, in Cedar Rapids, to Joseph B. and Hazel F. Kunzman Arce . She was adopted and raised in Wayland By Christian M. and Mae Essley Kauffman. She married Doyle A. Gray in 1949. He preceded her in death in 1962. She married Schuyler "Skeeter" Proffitt, December 7, 1968 in Rock Island, Illinois.

Mrs. Proffitt graduated as valedictorian from Wayland High School in 1945. She was employed by Horak Insurance of Washington, Ivan "Mike"Goddard, Carver Michaels Co, and HON Industries , retiring from HON in 1985 as an accountant in corporate finance.

Mrs. Proffitt enjoyed music, oil painting, needlework, quilting, puzzles,and travel as well as politics and current events. She is survived by one daughter, Sandra Bear, Salinas, California; one son, Thomas Gray, Muscatine; two step-daughters, Suzi Webb, West Liberty and Cynthia Dwyer, Muscatine; one step-son, Craig A. Proffitt, Bakersfield,California; three half-sisters , Susie Reinhardt, Cedar Rapids; Carmen Weed, Palm Springs, California; and Becky Harpster, Alhambra, California; 12 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, and several nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Mrs. Proffitt was preceded in death by her biological and adoptive parents, her first husband Doyle, her second husband, Schuyler, and two brothers, Jimmy Arce, New York City, NY and Joseph Arce, Seaford, Delaware.