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- Birth: May 26, 1927
Cambridge
Henry County
Illinois, USA
Death: Dec. 8, 2008
Kingfisher
Kingfisher County
Oklahoma, USA
Dorothy Jean Glass Mahaffey, 81, of Kingfisher, OK, formerly of Cambridge and Geneseo passed away Monday, December 8, 2008 at Cimarron Nursing Center in Kingfisher, OK. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Friday, December 12th at Stackhouse-Moore Funeral Services, 225 East Park St. Geneseo. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery, Geneseo. Rev. John Davis will officiate. Visitation will be held one hour prior to services on Friday. Memorials may be made to Alzheimer's Association.
Dorothy Jean Glass was born May 26, 1927 in Cambridge, IL, the daughter of William and Belle Young Glass, Jr. She attended school in Cambridge and married Ronald Howard Mahaffey Sr. on May 26, 1944 in Cambridge. She retired in 1973 from Bishop's Cafeteria in Davenport, IA. Dorothy moved to San Diego, CA where she worked at numerous jobs and then retired from the Canteen at the VA Hospital in La Jolla, CA in 1996. Because of ill health, she went to live with her daughter and son-in-law in El Reno, OK. As her health worsened, Dorothy went to live at Cimarron Nursing Center. She loved traveling to visit family and her family always received compliments on her being such a sweet lady. She was a beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.
Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Linda and Lanny Pierce, El Reno, OK; a son and daughter-in-law, Ron and Elizabeth Mahaffey, Jr., Dumfries, VA; four granddaughters; one grandson; four great-granddaughters; nine great-grandsons; numerous nieces and nephews; cousins; and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents; four sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Hill, Mrs. Phyllis Petitt, Mrs. Hazel Parker, and Mrs. Pearl Bell; and one brother, Howard Glass.
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