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Dorothy Price Obituary
7/21/1923-10/26/2012
Dorothy Lundy Price, formerly of Cool Calif., recently passed away peacefully in her sleep in Talent, Ore. She recently had a series of minor strokes and was moved into a foster-care facility last year. She passed away there while under the excellent, compassionate care of her Adult Foster Home caregivers and Providence Hospice of Medford, Oregon. Her daughter Wendyn Price was at her bedside.
Dorothy was born on July 21, 1923 in the state of Alaska where her father who was in the Navy was stationed. The family eventually moved to San Diego where she grew up. She attended San Diego State University and then went to U.C. Berkeley. While at San Diego State University she was a columnist for the college newspaper and wrote many articles on social liberties. Her liberal views even caught the attention of the FBI (it was after all the era of McCarthyism) although nothing ever came of it. While at U.C. she met and married Bill Price which led to an early end of her University education a few units shy of a degree.
Dorothy and Bill lived in San Francisco for a while, and then moved to Long Beach in the mid 1950's. Dorothy became involved in the local chapters for the PTA, rose to be local president, and then went on to become the president of the State Wide PTA. As president of the Long Beach Poly High School PTA she helped found a ground breaking group known as the "Poly Community Interracial Committee", which gained national recognition and became a model for other schools.
In the mid 1970's, after his retirement, she and her husband Bill moved to Auburn Lake Trails in Cool. They were among the earliest residents there. They build a house and started publishing the monthly community newspaper called the "Trail Views" she was Editor until the early 2000's.
Dorothy had a great talent for writing and composed many poems for her friends and loved ones. She also wrote plays. She and Bill were among the founders of "The Follies" at ALT. She wrote and directed the first six or seven plays. They were hilariously funny and widely acclaimed for their wit. She was an expert at cross-word puzzles and none of the family chose to take her on. Dorothy "slowed down" as she aged and in January, 2009 family members convinced her to move to a retirement home in Jacksonville Oregon so as to be closer to her daughter.
She is survived by: two daughters, Wendyn Price of Talent, Sharon Price of San Luis Obispo, son Stephen Price of West Covina, two step sons, Bill Price of Santa Monica and Cool, David Price and his wife Jan of Phoenix, five grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, four nieces, and a nephew.
She was greatly loved and will be missed by all who knew her. A memorial service, open to the public, will be held Saturday May 11, 2013 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Auburn Lake Trails at the Gallery. Enter Main Gate.
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May 14, 2013
Im sorry for your loss. I went bowling on an early bird league years ago with both Dorothy and her daughter. I fondly remember what a fun and caring person she was and got along with them well. Its been a very long time since ive heard or have seen either Mom or daughter but please except my condolences. Denise Meyer
Cam
May 12, 2013
Today on Mothers Day we said goodbye to my Grandma Dorothy.
By mid-morning, the clan started gathering at Ridge Airy, the home that my Grandpa Bill and Grandma Dorothy built in the early 70s and named after the family's ancestral home in Arrow Rock, Missouri.
Grandma and Grandpa married shortly after World War II. They raised my mom in San Diego and Long Beach, California. This vacation home that they built together in Cool, California, was the place where my family would gather for holidays and events when I was growing up. On a couple of summers, my parents sent my brother Aaron and I down to experience a different world from the house on the side of a mountain where we grew up.
It's hard to understate how much impact Grandma Dorothy had on my life. As a young person, she engaged me in the kind of intellectual discourse that encouraged me to think about what I was capable and what I could do. When I was 15, she sent me on a 2-week student tour of Europe. When I came back to the USA, I decided that I'd be focused on helping the whole world in some way….when I went to college, I got my degree in International Relations, then went into the Peace Corps. I got a job with IBM that I loved, but then I stayed with IBM because of the ‘International' part. Now I live in China with my family. In the nature of things, my family has become the center of my world, and the international focus, at least for this part of my life, has become fulfilled.
Grandma died this past December. When we got the news, my beautiful children, Nova and Vaughn, each wrote a sweet poem to Dorothy.
The ceremony was simple and beautiful. On the hill behind Ridge Airy, there is a spot where we scattered my Grandpa Bill's ashes 20 years ago. Grandpa was 20 years older than Grandma, and the synchronicity seems fitting. For Grandpa's ceremony, Grandma created an engaged brass plate as a sort of gravestone, and planted a tree. Uncle Bill retrieved the plate a week ago had it updated with both Grandpa Bill and Grandma Dorothy's dedication. As people walked up the plot, Billy started with a few words, and passed around the plate to the attendees. Words and stories where shared by many people. I read the poems that Nova and Vaughn wrote, and wept. My mom created and shared a book of Grandma's poems, including one that Dorothy wrote to Nova.
We scattered the ashes, each of us, one by one, by hand, allowing them to mix with my Grandfather's ashes, this wild hillside, and the world. We finished by going back to the house and did what my Grandma would have done – raised a glass of white wine in toast and celebration of her life.
Grandma, thank you for all that you gave me.
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Stephanie "Tepie" Brown
May 10, 2013
My dearest Aunt Dorothy, a progressive woman, always with the perfect word or phrase. She was the yin to my dad's yang. I miss her.
Tricia Longpre
May 10, 2013
I first met Dorothy at a WIFFS meeting, I was so surprised with her energy ans open mindedness. I enjoyed working on projects with her and our monthly bunco games. She is a great loss to the ALT community, her friends, and family.
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