Dorothy May (Kenyon) SILL

SILL, KENYON, WILSON, PILLING

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/15/2008 at 09:56:54

Marietta Daily Journal (GA)
May 31, 2008

Dorothy M. Sill, 92, Kennesaw resident

Dorothy May Kenyon Sill, 92, of Kennesaw died on Wednesday, May 28, 2008. Services will be held at a later date in Eagle Grove, Iowa. An Iowa native, Mrs. Sill was a homemaker and an artist. Survivors include one son, Robert Sill of Lilburn; two daughters, Donna Wilson of Des Moines, Iowa and Janet Pilling of Kennesaw; and eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Contributions may be made to the American Diabetes Association.

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June 11, 2008
The Garner Leader & Signal - Iowa

Hancock County native, Dorothy May (Kenyon) Sill, 92, of Kennesaw, Georgia, died on Wednesday, May 28, 2008, at the Metropolitan Hospice in Marietta, Georgia following a stroke. A graveside service will be held later this summer at Eagle Grove. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to your local hospice or the American Diabetes Association. The Cremation Society of the SOUTH is in charge of the arrangements.

Dorothy May Kenyon, was born on April 11, 1916, the third of 5 children, 4 girls and one boy. Raised on a farm in Iowa, she graduated from the Garner High School in 1933. She graduated from the AIB School of Business in Des Moines, and met her future husband, Donald Sill of Eagle Grove, Iowa, while she was there. They were married on July 20, 1940, at Dorothy's mother's home in Garner. They lived in Kankakee, Illinois for a time, and then moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where two daughters were born, Donna Kay in 1942 and Janet Roberta in 1944. After WW II they returned to Des Moines, where a son, Robert Kenyon, was born in 1950. After a few years on a farm near St. Charles, the family returned to West Des Moines where all three children graduated from high school, and went on to college. Dorothy was primarily a wife and mother, but following their retirement in 1970, she became an accomplished artist. She and Don moved west to San Diego where she studied drawing and painting, and began to indulge in a lifelong pursuit of health and fitness. She began jogging in her sixties, followed by years of swimming a mile a day, in addition to as much golf as time allowed. During this time she and Don began traveling and visited many countries on several continents. Dorothy always loved dancing, and she and Don spent many happy years square dancing and round dancing. The round dancing took them to Mesa, Arizona, where she then took up tennis and they played daily in round robin matches. She became an excellent bowler, scoring games of 200 in her eighties! She continued with her art, winning several awards. They moved to Marietta, Georgia, in 2001 to be closer to family, where Don died in early 2004. She leaves two daughters, Donna Wilson (Mike) of Des Moines and Janet Pilling (Alan) of Kennesaw, Georgia; one son, Robert Sill (Gloria) of Lilburn, Georgia; eight grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.