Dorothy Ann Herry

1929 - 2020

BORN

1929

DIED

2020

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Cibola High School West Mesa High School Stephens College University of New Mexico

Dorothy Herry Obituary

Dorothy Ann Herry

12/20/1929 â€"

3/28/2020

Grew up and attended school in Harlingen Texas. She graduated from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri with a Bachelor of Science Degree and later a Master's Degree in Education from the University of New Mexico. She taught school for 25 years at West Mesa High School and Cibola High School in Albuquerque, NM. She was proud to be an Air Force wife; enjoying the many moves, making new friends, and finding something positive in every assignment her husband had. She was an active volunteer with Museum of Natural History, The University of New Mexico Hospital, the Assistance League of Albuquerque, St Paul's United Methodist Church and both the local and National Military Widow's Association. She was active in several social and philanthropic organizations and had both local friends and friends from military days across the country.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 48 years, Major Cale C. Herry in 1999. They shared a love of travel, the outdoors, golf, sailing, photography, and flying. She is survived by her daughter, Deborah L. Chavez; her son-in-law, Thomas D. Chavez; two granddaughters, Cynthia Hollingsworth and Carla Parkinson; as well as five great-grandchildren. Burial will be at the National Cemetery in Santa Fe with her husband.

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Published by Albuquerque Journal on Apr. 5, 2020.

Memories and Condolences
for Dorothy Herry

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Peggy Schultz

April 5, 2020

Mrs. Ann Herry was one of my teachers in "Family Studies" at West Mesa High School 1972-1973. Historically, girls only took "Home Economics" (sewing, cooking, etc.) and the boys were funneled into "Shop" (mechanics, woodworking etc.) The Family Studies class was an early effort by the school(s?) to bring both genders into a course that integrated elements of the (required) courses of Home Ec. and Shop with added curriculum of child development/relationship foundations, etc. It was team taught to classes of very nervous teenagers who feared the content as well as the co-ed "practicals" (i.e. skills.) Making it harder was that West Mesa was the largest school in the state with students from VERY diverse populations in a broad geographic area so the classes were packed-this was a mandatory class for graduation. (Our graduating class alone was nearly 700.) I share this with you because I remember Mrs. Herry as being lead teacher for the group of instructors tackling this initiative. The class was cogent, well organized, informative...and controlled-especially when filled with attempted antics of boisterous, self-conscious teenagers on skills days (read meal preparation days.) This required someone with a strong back and firm grip and we found it in Mrs. Herry. To have a "rainbows and butterflies"-"let's be pals!" kind of teacher would have left us all in a melting glob of goo on the floor. And yet... She had a wonderful kindly smile. While I remember thinking it wouldn't be a good idea "to cross her" (teenaged thinking) I loved and lived to see that smile because I caught a glimpse of her "other" self. Though I hoped we could have the "rainbows and butterflies" scenario, we had the environment we needed. To Mrs. Herry's grandchildren, I would also share with you that all of the above was happening in the same time of the Vietnam War, the "free love movement", LSD infusion into the culture bringing heroin and abuse of prescription drugs with it, hippies, communes, Mother Earth philosophies, an explosion in the number of cults, protest marches, sit-ins, riots in cities, mini-skirts, long hair, long beards, big sideburns, afros, psychedelic anything, hatred for the military, hatred for vets coming home from Vietnam, hatred for anyone over 30, the Civil Rights Movement, assassination of Martin Luther King, the draft, the "Age of Aquarius" permeation of thought, people attempting to live out the brotherhood of man, and even a revival sweep across America/Europe of young people genuinely coming to Jesus! I didn't name everything here, but imagine all of this affecting your own life and still having to teach teenagers who carried it ALL with them to school everyday...perhaps it will help deepen the significance of your grandmother's accomplishments.
From one of those teenagers in the seventies (now retirement aged), my sincere condolences on the passing of Mrs. Herry. My apologies for the length of this, but I hope it communicates something of my gratitude for the significance of her calling and kindness to me more than 47 years ago. I will thank her in person someday because of the salvation Jesus offers, but until then, thank you to her family and friends.
(P.S. The picture you selected has the smile I remember. Thank you!)

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