nks, Alaska, where she taught Remedial Reading at Nordale School in the Fairbanks school system for four years. On October 1, 1954, she married Kenneth H. Ubbelohde, a Boy Scout Executive for the Midnight Sun District of the Alaska Council, Boy Scouts of America. Their two eldest sons were born in the Territory of Alaska, and their third son was born in Tacoma, Washington. Kenneth returned to the active ministry in 1963 and the family moved about when he was called to serve churches in Gary, Indiana, Bowling Green, Ohio, and Metlakatla, Alaska. When the boys grew older, Dorothy again taught school. She earned a Master's Degree in Education at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
The family moved to Clear Lake, Iowa in 1971. Kenneth was minister of the 1st Congregationalist Church from 1971 to 1987. Dorothy taught an Adult Basic Education Program at the newly established Handicap Village for four years. Then she taught a Learning Disabled or Multicategorical Classroom at the Clear Lake Junior High School for eleven years.
Dorothy was an active participant in a number of community clubs and organization including PEO, WA TAN YE, Federated Women's Club, Progress Club, and Crescent Club. Dorothy served as President in a number of these organizations. She was a Life Member of the National Education Association and the NEA Retired Teachers' Association. Dorothy was also an avid weaver and a member of the North Iowa Weavers Guild.
In retirement, she became active in the local Retired Teachers Organization. She also volunteered with Hospice of North Iowa and the Handicap Village Store. Dorothy and Ken traveled several times. They visited many countries in Europe. Dorothy traveled once around the world, and then to Australia and New Zealand, and finally to Japan, Philippines and Hawaii. Dorothy and Ken had a Condo in Mesa, Arizona, and would spend the colder months there and the warmer months in Clear Lake, Iowa.
Dorothy was a member of the First Congregational Church and taught an adult Sunday School Class for many years.
Dorothy is survived by three sons, Mark Harry Ubbelohde of Clear Lake, Kurt Frederick Ubbelohde of Papillion, Nebraska, and Kevin Kenneth Ubbelohde of Waterloo, Iowa; 13 grandchildren; a sister, Rae Given of Colorado; a brother-in-law, John Ehmann of South Bend, Indiana; and ten nieces and nephews.
Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters, Pat and Marjorie, and her husband, Kenneth Ubbelohde.
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