Colleen Dummitt

Brooksville-(Lois) Colleen Dummitt, (née McClanahan), 82 years old, of 2307 Glen Drive in Maysville, Kentucky, passed away on Tuesday, November 25, 2025 at the Meadowview Regional Medical Center, after suffering a heart attack.
Colleen was born on August 2, 1943 in Cincinnati, Ohio. She graduated from Bracken County High School in 1961 and graduated from Morehead State University with a BA in 1965 and a MA degree in 1966.
Colleen met the love of her life, Dale Dummitt, at Morehead and they were married on June 1, 1963. They were happily married and spent sixty wonderful years together until Dale's passing in 2023.
Colleen and Dale relocated to Horseheads, NY in 1969 when Dale was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to pursue a Master's Degree at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Colleen taught all levels of high school English at Elmira Free Academy in Elmira, NY, from 1969-1998.
Colleen and Dale retired in 1998 and later returned to Kentucky and resided in Maysville. They enjoyed golf with friends in Horseheads and later with friends at Laurel Oak Golf Club where they were members for several years. They both had a passion for gardening and enjoyed sharing produce with many of their Washington Glen neighbors. Colleen was known in her neighborhood for her beautiful flowers.
Colleen was a dedicated fan of UK basketball and loved watching the games with her husband. She loved to travel and had been to Europe several times and went on many adventures with her sisters.
She is survived by her daughter Cindy (John) Scott and granddaughter Sasi Scott of Middletown, Ohio, and her son Sean (Anna Laura Bennett) and granddaughters Claudia June Bennett-Dummitt and Lucy Ann Bennett-Dummitt of Odenton, Maryland. She is also survived by her sisters, Sharon Teegarden of Brooksville, Kentucky, and Kim McClanahan of Waynesboro, Virginia. She is also survived by her sister-in-law, Erma Hamilton, of Greensburg, Indiana and many nieces and nephews of the Dummitt family as well as nieces and nephews from the McClanahan family, and a former brother-in-law, Jay White, of Sandpoint, Idaho. In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by a sister, Michele McClanahan White, of Augusta, Kentucky and brothers-in law, Richard Teegarden of Brooksville, Kentucky, and Lou Kalin of Waynesboro, Virginia.
She was a member of the Retired Teachers Association of Horseheads, New York, a proud member of NYSUT (New York State Teachers Union) She was also a baptized member of the former Wellsburg Christian Church, which her husband helped to build in the early 1960's along with her father, Adrian McClanahan, and her brother-in-law, Richard Teegarden. More recently she was a member of New Hope Christian Church in Maysville. She was an avid reader and was a member of a book club and enjoyed participating in water aerobics at the Limestone Family YMCA.
Services will be 12 pm on Saturday, December 6 at Moore and Parker Funeral Home in Brooksville, Kentucky, located at 41 Hackett Ridge Road. Visitation will be held on December 6 from 10 AM-12 PM. Burial at Johnsville Cemetery will follow after the funeral services are concluded.
Condolences may be sent to www.MooreAndParkerFH.com