Dunlop, Dorothy L. Mrs. Robert 1918-2010

DUNLOP, HILTON, CARR

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/9/2010 at 00:26:07

Dorothy L. Dunlop
November 28, 1918 - August 26, 2010
Mrs. Dorothy Dunlop, age 91, of Orange City, passed away on Thursday, August 26, 2010, at the Orange City Area Health System Hospital.
There will be a memorial service on Monday, August 30, at 2:00pm, at the American Reformed Church in Orange City. The Rev. Keith Krebs will officiate. Interment will be prior to the service at the West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City. There will be a prayer service on Monday, at 1:00pm, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Orange City. Visitation will be after 4:00pm on Sunday, with the family present from 5:00pm to 7:00pm, at the funeral home.
Dorothy Louise was born on November 28, 1918, in Knoxville, Iowa, the daughter of William and Della (Hilton) Carr. She was raised in Cedar Rapids, where she graduated from the Washington High School.
She attended Coe College in Cedar Rapids, where she was a member of various organizations, which included Chi Omega Sorority, Mortar Board, and Phi Kappa Psi. She was active in theatre and speech, and she broadcast a daily radio program for the Armstrong Clothing Company over station WMT. She was also named TKE Fraternity Sweetheart. When she graduated Magna Cum Laude from Coe in 1940, she was named Outstanding Senior Woman.
She taught school for one year in Newhall, Iowa, and then returned to Cedar Rapids and worked for Armstrong’s.
On October 21, 1941, she married Robert Mitchell Dunlop in Cedar Rapids. After World War II, she and "Bob" moved to Orange City. He passed away on December 22, 2003, in Orange City, after 62 years of marriage. Dorothy was a member of the American Reformed Church, where she served in the Reformed Church Women’s Ministries and her circle. She organized the idea to "Adopt a Family" at Christmas, by giving them gifts they would otherwise not receive. This plan has now grown to be a county-wide program supervised by the Sioux County Department of Human Services.
In 1950, she directed the first Tulip Festival Night Show in Orange City, and continued to direct or produce shows for the next eleven years. She also served on the Tulip Festival Queen’s Committee and was chosen to be the Parade Marshall one year. She and Bob were active in the Ramblers.
Over the years, she served on the boards of directors of the Sioux County Concert Series, the Northwestern College Auxiliary and the Theatre Patrons, and the Sioux County Historical Society, all in Orange City. In 1946, she joined the Pressman-Kosters American Legion Auxiliary in Orange City, where she served a term as president. She was also instrumental in the restoration of the interior of the Sioux County Court House, and she and a friend, Kay Doornink, were the co-founders of the Orange City Arts Council. In addition, she was appointed by the Governor of Iowa to the Judicial District 3B Nominating Commission, on which she served for six years.
Survivors include a son and his wife, Scott and Carmel Dunlop, of Edina, Minnesota, and their children, Robert Dunlop and Katherine Dunlop; a daughter and her husband, Deborah "Deb" and Dennis De Haan, of Orange City, and their daughters, Jessica, and her husband, Michael Kiss, and their sons, Kade and Grayson, and Michelle De Haan, and her fiancé, Jordan Warntjes; a daughter-in-law, JoAnne Dunlop, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and her children, Chad Dunlop, and his wife, Melanie, and their children Tanner, Derek, and Emily, Todd Dunlop, and Christy Dunlop; and many nephews and nieces.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a son, Mark Dunlop, on December 17, 2005, in Orange City; a brother and his wife, Warren and Mary Ellen Carr; a brother-in-law and his wife, Don and Betty Dunlop; and a sister-in-law and her husband, Jean and Eb Eischeid.
Source: Oolman Funeral Home obit.