[Oe List ...] Death of Dorothy Appelgate

[A.M. Noel]

Dear Margaret,
Thank you for sharing her life journey with us.
A.M. Noel
206-321-6274

A.M. Noel

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Margaret Aiseayew via OE <
oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Dorothy died peacefully this morning.  She was only a month from her 98th
> birthday.  I think she crossed off everything on her bucket list except
> riding a horse on her birthday this year.  After going up in a hot air
> balloon last year, she crossed off parasailing.
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> Dorothy was an incredible woman who took on all of the challenges life
> presented with joy and determination.  She married my dad, Bill, when they
> were in their fifties.  She is the only grandmother my children ever knew.
> She traveled to Peru with Heifer Project and after surviving that trip,
> took on all possibilities.  They went to Columbia and Guatemala and even
> represented Heifer International on its tenth anniversary all over China.
> When Dad decided to go to Israel, she put her foot down—only for a little
> while before she decided to join him.
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> Dorothy raised a family of six, doing what was necessary to keep their
> lives together.  She loved her family and adopted my brother and me
> immediately.  She stretched herself and expanded her love to include
> grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren from many
> relationship configurations.
>
> Her faith was her mainstay.  A serious question would send her to the
> Bible until she discovered either affirmation or good reason to change her
> mind.  Neither changed her faith, the core belief that God is good—all the
> time.
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> I could bore you all for a long time when really what I wanted you to know
> is that a true Saint has left our plane of existence and will be dearly
> missed.
>
> Emmanuel, Margaret
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