Dolores Pound

Dolores Pound

NEWARK: Funeral service for Dolores Pound, of Newark, will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. at Brucker & Kishler Funeral Home, 985 N. 21st St, Newark, with Rev. John Minihan officiating. Burial will follow in Wilson Cemetery.

Dolores Pound passed away Saturday, November 20, 2010 at the Selma Markowitz Hospice Center in the Licking Memorial Hospital, she was 93. Eleanor Dolores Price was born April 9, 1917, to Guy H. and Margaret E. (Butler) Price at the Price family farm near Chatham, Ohio. She was a retired school clerk for the Newark Public Schools serving most recently at Hazelwood Elementary, the same school where she began her association with the Newark Schools as a first grade student. She also served at Cherry Valley, Johnny Clem, and Keller schools. She began her working career as a legal secretary and had also worked in several other secretarial positions. During World War II, from 1943 to 1946, she and her first husband Floyd Smith worked as civilian employees at the Panama Air Depot in the Panama Canal Zone.

Dolores was the longest term member of First Presbyterian Church in Newark, having joined the church in 1930. An avid bridge player, she continued to enjoy the game until recently, continuing to play with several women whom she knew from high school when they started their first bridge club. She was an accomplished seamstress making many articles of clothing for herself and family, as well as numerous quilts, many done when she was well into her 80's. Her love of cats began in her early childhood and continued until her last days when she enjoyed the company of her cat Misty on her lap.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Floyd E. Smith, who passed away in 1964; her second husband, Ernest E. Pound; and a sister, Marjorie Rauch Frazier.

She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Stephen D. and Linda L. (Belt) Smith; three grandchildren, Adrian E. Smith, Andrea L. Smith, and Aaron D. (Megan) Smith; a nephew, Jeffrey (Jenny) Rauch; and two nieces, Cathy Rauch and Amy (Rick) Bishoff.

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