Dorothy Ramsbottom

Burial will be at the Zion Cemetery east of Orient. Memorials may be directed to The Village, Indianola, IA.
Dorothy Pauline (Blackmer) Ramsbottom, the daughter of Kenneth and Bessie (Rutt) Blackmer, was born on October 10, 1916, in Casey, Iowa. Dorothy entered eternal rest on January 30, 2010, at The Village, in Indianola, Iowa, at the age of ninety-three years.
Dorothy attended the Casey Public School, graduating in 1933. She attended Simpson College from 1933-1935 and taught in Redfield, Iowa for three years. In 1937, Dorothy married Clair Ramsbottom and they made their home on a farm near Orient, Iowa. Their three children, Jay, Nile and Cathy, were born there.
Later, Dorothy taught in the Orient-Macksburg Schools. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Drake University in 1965 and she continued teaching at O-M until her retirement in 1981. After her husbands death in 1978, Dorothy traveled and volunteered at the O-M School, the Orient Methodist Church and the Creston hospital.
Dorothy was a long-time Sunday School Teacher and held various offices for the United Methodist Women. She traveled world-wide and visited Europe, China and Russia. Dorothy loved to play piano for her own enjoyment and always had two vegetable gardens; one for her family and one for her husbands family. In 1992, she moved to The Village, a retirement community in Indianola, where she continued her activity in the Indianola United Methodist Church and volunteered at The Village.
Left to cherish Dorothys memory are her son: Nile (wife Terry) Ramsbottom, Innsbrook, MO; her daughter: Cathy (husband Jim) Garrett, Indianola, IA; her daughter-in-law: Trudy Ramsbottom, LaCrosse, WI; Eight Grandchildren; Fourteen Great-Grandchildren; her Brother-in-law: Raymond Chadwick; and many nieces and nephews.
Preceding Dorothy in death were her parents; her husband, Clair in 1978; her brother, Ward Blackmer, and her son, Jay Ramsbottom.