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Joseph Dobry Obituary
Marshall, Arlene Dobry Shoemaker, Susan Dobry, Carol Dobry Ginsberg Schoolnick and Irene Dobry Glass; dear brother of Charles Dobry, Emily Pachuta and the late Marie Dobry and Helen Lawler; beloved grandfather of Joshua Dobry Shoemaker and his wife Stephanie, Stefan Leonard Shoemaker and his wife Barbara, Jared Alan Shoemaker and his wife Kristy, Robert
Joseph Ginsberg and his fiancee Jennifer Ornstein; great-grandfather of Madison and Hailey Shoemaker; also survived by sons-in-law Reggie Marshall, Leonard Shoemaker, Brett Schoolnick and David Eidman, dear friend Rose Bramble and nieces and
nephews.
Friends may call at the Lassahn Funeral Home, Inc., 7401 Belair Road (Overlea) on Friday and Saturday 3-5 and 7-9 P.M.
A Christian Wake Service will be held on Friday at 3:00 P.M. A Mass of Christian
Burial will be celebrated at St. Michael the Archangel Church (Overlea) on Monday
at 10:00 A.M . Interment Sacred Heart of Jesus Cemetery.
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Memories and Condolences
for Joseph Dobry
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Kari Curtis
November 29, 2007
The world has lost a kind man who was a strong foundation for a wonderful family. He will be missed. The entire family is in our thoughts and prayers.
Joshua Shoemaker
November 29, 2007
To me, Pop Pop was someone that I aspired to be like. His seemingly infinite patience, kindness and love for his daughters, and innate ability to fix just about anything are all things I would like to emulate in my life.
A lasting memory, that I had the opportunity to share with him the Friday before he passed, was one of crafting paper airplanes with him when I was a kid. To be specific, these were not the standard "fold a piece of paper a few times and then throw it at your brother" planes... these were highly engineered paper gliding machines. I don't know where he got the design for the device I code-named "The Dragonfly", it may have been from his head, a book, or his days as an engineer... but this object of paper folding art and balance was something else. It started as a standard 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper and after some serious manipulation (the design involved a precise tearing of the sheet so a counterbalancing tail could be created) we ended up with an airplane that could be launched from Nana and Pop Pop's back porch, over the rock wall, and well into the neighbor's back yard. Pretty sweet even by my adult standards of today.
I think the reason that memory sticks is it combined a lot of Pop Pop's strengths. It had to have taken a lot of patience to guide me through the process. Pop Pop was a very measured and precise man from my perspective, this was also vital to the "dragonfly". Finally, the simple pursuit of creating and flying paper airplanes with a grandson requires a measure of good old fashioned fun.
So what do you get when you mix all of these desirable elements into one person and sprinkle liberally with care and compassion? My grandfather.
Joseph Dobry, the amazingly kind father of 5 daughters who I have witnessed love him back with an intensity of love that is almost unfathomable. The fun and loving grandfther to his four grandchildren who will miss him dearly and the great grandfather to two nieces and soon to be born others that will just have to learn how to make a dragonfly airplane from their Uncle Josh.
God bless you Pop Pop.
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