Dorothy Ludik

Ludik, Dorothy
BOISE, Idaho - Dorothy Ludik passed away on September 29, 2025. Dorothy grew up in the old Philadelphia neighborhood of Strawberry Mansion, skating in the streets over to Linder's for candy and ice cream, and sneaking onto the empty stage at Robin Hood Dell to pretend-act on closed weekends. She attended Fitzsimons Junior High and went on to the Philadelphia High School for Girls (Girls High), becoming class president. While excelling academically, she threw herself into extracurricular sports, clubs, and orchestra. The faculty and fellow classmates from Girls High Class of June '46 remained close to her heart, and she organized a reunion every year, having their 73rd reunion in 2019. She believed strongly in the importance of education, earning a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, a BS in Civil Engineering from Union College when she was 57, and an MBA from Russell Sage College when she was 67.
Dorothy's overriding focus and joy in life were her three daughters, Lisa (Dave), Jane, and Amy (Chuck); her five grandchildren, Emma (Brendan), Chaz (Meghan), Davis (Taylor), Dayne (Cameron), and Annie; and three great-grandchildren Taylor, Dyna, and Danica. Her husband, Albert, passed away in 2016. As an only child, having a close family of her own meant the world to her. She loved having her family together and planned many epic family trips over the years. She was passionate about exposing her family to different ways of living, believing, and creating art through travel and education. She loved trees and flowers, and spent the springs and summers tending her beautiful gardens at her home of close to 50 years in Delmar, N.Y. After retiring and moving to Boise, Idaho, she successfully completed the Master Gardener certification through the University of Idaho. She made wonderful new friendships at Boise's Dick Eardley Senior Center, and enjoyed their many programs.
Although cooking wasn't her favorite activity, Dorothy never met a dessert she didn't like, and baked delicious oatmeal cookies ("oatmealies"), "crumby" apple and peach pies.
Dorothy enjoyed her work as a civil engineer so much that she worked for the New York State Thruway until she was 88 years old, and dedicated her free time in her last years there to beautifully preserving historic blue-linen documents for future generations to study.
She was an inspiration to all who knew her. Dorothy's family and many friends will greatly miss her love, kindness, compassion, and wisdom. We'll love her always. As she wished, there will be no services, but donations are welcome in her memory to the Dick Eardley Senior Center here: www.cityofboise.org/departments/parks-and-recreation/donations/ or mailed to the Senior Center at 690 Robbins Rd., Boise, Idaho 83702. Arrangements are through Bowman Funeral Parlor in Garden City, Idaho.