Dorothy Marie Johansson Rhoades

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Dorothy Marie Johansson Rhoades
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Date of Birth: 
August 3 1924
Date of Death: 
January 19 2011

Dorothy Rhoades of Lebanon, PA., formerly of Ludlow Falls passed away on ,January 19, 2011 at Cedar Haven Nursing Home, Lebonon,PA.
Graveside services were conducted March 14, 2011 at Riverside Cemetery,West Milton.

Dorothy Marie Johansson, Dorothy Glynn Dollins Jones, and Jef Wintter Seghers were friends in 1942 at Orlando Senior High School when they signed yearbooks. Their lives took them down different paths but they are all three back together again at EpochLegacies.org The photograph of Dorothy on her wedding day was returned to Dorothy's family in June 2014. Read the story on OrlandoMemory.info.

Dorothy's daughter, Kathy Rhoades Wolfson, provided the "rest of the story" for this post in an email dated June 28, 2014:

I remember my mother talking about her 2 best friends, Jet Seghers and Tibbie Gibson over the years. Mother and Tibbie kept in touch till the end, but she Jet Seghers must have lost touch with one another many years ago.

Mother left Florida College for Women (Florida State University) after her sophomore year to marry our dad, Robert E. Rhoades, whom she met when he was stationed at the airbase near the campus. After he returned from WWII, they moved around a bit till he was discharged from Wright Patterson Air base near Dayton, OH.

My sister was born while they lived in Dayton, and I came along 3 1/2 years later after they had built a home in Ludlow Falls about 20 min. from where my dad was raised near Greenville, OH. Sadly my dad died in 1978 at just 56 yrs. of age and my mother never remarried.

She worked as a realtor for the next 12-15 years. Mother was a lifelong smoker, which eventually caught up with her. I moved her near me (Lebanon PA) into an assisted living community for the last 8 years of her life. She died in Jan. 2011 and was buried next to our dad in West Milton, OH.

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Place of Birth: 
United States
Place of Death: 
Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States
Primary State of Residence: 
Pennsylvania, United States

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