Dorothy A. Gingerich

Dorothy Gingerich CORALVILLE, Iowa #45;- Dorothy A. Gingerich, 81, formerly of Coralville, died Friday, Jan. 24, 2003, at the Muscatine Care Center in Muscatine from complications of cancer. Services are 11:00 a.m. Monday, at the Gay amp; Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service in Iowa City. Burial will be at Memory Gardens Cemetery in Iowa City. Visitation is from 9:30 a.m. until services Monday at the funeral home. Memorial donations can be made in her memory to Muscatine Care Center or Beacon of Hospice in the Quad Cities. Online condolences may be sent for her family through our website @ www.gayandciha.com. Mrs. Gingerich was born on May 28, 1921 in rural Johnson County, Iowa, the daughter of Ernest and Emma Ackerman Drake. She graduated from Oxford High School in 1939. She married Delbert L. Gingerich on Aug. 27, 1939, in Iowa City. From 1965 until retiring in 1990, She worked for the City of Coralville in the Water Department. She was a member of V.F.W. Post 3949, Walter Johnson Post 721 of the Coralville American Legion, Eagles Auxiliary, and the Moose Lodge. She enjoyed bowling, fishing, playin...[more]

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uchre and spending as much time with her family. Survivors include one son, Jerry Gingerich and his wife, Phyllis, of Chicago, Ill.; one daughter, Judy Smith and her husband, Robert, of Muscatine; four grandchildren, Randy Smith and his wife, Darla, Sherry Miller and her husband Keith, Dan Smith and his special friend, Shelly Spoltman, and Jessica Smith; five great-grandchidlren; and two sisters, Esther Hemsted Lincoln of Lone Tree and Hazel Lamb of Bull Head City, Ariz. She was preceded in death by her husband and a brother, Harold Drake.