Dorothy Dotti J. Hersey

HERSHEY — Dorothy "Dotti" J. (McLennan), 81; born Aug. 27, 1938, Phoenix, Arizona; died April 12, 2020, Medford, Oregon. Surviving: husband of 62 years, John; daughters, DeAnne Hersey and Michele L. Gilley, both of Medford; sister, Donna Rose McLennan, Washoe Valley, Nevada; 4 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.

Dorothy "Dotti" J. McLennan Hershey was born August 27, 1938, in Phoenix, Arizona. She passed away Easter morning, April 12, 2020 in Medford, Oregon. She was raised in Phoenix, attended Arizona Academy, graduated from Thunderbird Academy as Valedictorian and year book editor in 1956. Dotti went to Walla Walla University in the Fall of 1956 as a pre-med major. While there, she was reunited with John. They were married Sept. 29, 1957, in the Phoenix Central Adventist Church. They lived in Glendale, California, briefly, then moved to Alhambra, California. She worked in the accounting department at the White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles for three years. For several years she was a stay-at-home mom.

In 1965, they moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, where she enrolled at N. Arizona University in the nursing program, geting her R.N. degree in 1967. They moved to Oxnard, California, in 1970, where she was Director of N urses of an 86-bed convalescent hospital. She took the Administrators State Board, passing that test also. In 1973, they moved to Lodi, California, where Dotti worked at Lodi Memorial Hospital. In 1980, after moving to Paradise, California, she worked at Feather River Hospital as O.B. Supervisor of a home health nurse then retired in 2004.

They moved to Redmond, Oregon, for seven years, then to Grants Pass for five years. Dotti volunteered at the Dorcas Society every Tuesday making boxes of food for the needy at the Grants Pass Adventist Church. In 2016, they moved to Medford, Oregon.

Dotti was a very accomplised church organist and pianist for over 60 years. She enjoyed and was very good at Duplicate Bridge, water and snow skiing, badminton, ping pong, softball, traveling and crusing. She always had a nice smile witha little twinkle in her eyes.

She was preceded in death in 1990 by her son, Jon R. Hershey, of Paradise, California.