Dorothy (Nilson) Fyfe (1930-2010)

FYFE, NILSON, BLANCHARD, INSCOE, MEYER

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 6/14/2010 at 07:30:31

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Friday, June 11, 2010.

Dorothy Fyfe, 80, of the Mayflower Community in Grinnell, died Tuesday, June 8, 2010, at Grinnell Regional Medical Center. A memorial service will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 14, in the Carman Center of the Mayflower Community with the Rev. Christine Tinker, chaplain of the Mayflower Community, officiating. Pianist will be William Tinker.

Dorothy was born June 8, 1930, in Talas, Turkey, to Paul and Harriet Blanchard Nilson, who were missionaries of the United Church of Christ. In 1951, she graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., with a degree in Latin. She married James Fyfe June 23, 1952, in Talas, Turkey. The couple moved to Chicago in 1954, and James entered the seminary. The family moved to Winneconne, Wis., in 1958, and Dorothy worked in many different capacities supporting her husband’s ministry in a Presbyterian Church. The family moved back to Turkey in 1962, and she taught in a private school in Iskenderun, Turkey. The family returned to the United States in 1966, and they lived in Auburn and Montrose. She was a mother to four sons and continued to support her husband’s ministry in the Presbyterian Church. In 1981, she completed her master’s degree in audiology from the University of Iowa. She worked as an audiologist in New Mexico and Keokuk before joining McFarland Clinic in Ames in 1988. She was a volunteer at Ames Public Library and Worldly Goods Store. She also was engaged in a writer’s club in Ames. She retired in 1997, and the couple moved to the Mayflower Community in Grinnell in 2006. While living in Grinnell, she was an active member of the Mayflower Poetry Club and the Iowa Poetry Association.

She is survived by her husband, James Fyfe, of Grinnell; four sons, John Fyfe, of Tinley Park, Ill., Paul Fyfe, of Albuquerque, N.M., Tim Fyfe, of Clear Lake, and Stephen Fyfe, of Pella; 13 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; one brother, Paul Nilson; and two sisters, May Inscoe and Sylvia Meyer.

She was preceded in death by her parents, and she died on her 80th birthday.

Memorials may be directed to the Mayflower Human Needs Fund.

Smith Funeral Home of Grinnell is in charge of arrangements.

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