DOROTHY O'DONNELL

1918 - 2022

Dorothy Krafft O'Donnell  (Age 103)  
Passed away peacefully on Tuesday, December 28, 2021, at home with family.  Dorothy was born on July 12, 1918, in Brooklyn, New York. At six months her family moved to Alexandria, Virginia. She attended Saint Mary's Academy. She graduated from Dunbarton College of the Holy Cross in its first graduating class as a two-year school in 1937, and she returned and graduated from Dunbaton's four-year program in its last graduating class in 1973. She married John Bernard O'Donnell on June 14, 1941, and she survived him by more years than they were married. She was an active member of Saint Mary's and Saint Louis Catholic churches in Alexandria, and the Lay Carmelites in Washington, DC. She was the strong, warm, constant center for her family and she loved, swimming, travelling and decades of much-beloved family beach week reunion vacations. She is survived by her 11 children, Mary Beth, Dorothy (Steve), Jack (Lynn), Denny (Shirley), Mike, Tim, Chris (Debbie), Patty (Richard), Mark (Susan), Regina (John), and Ellen (David), 21 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren, her brother Frank, sister-in-law Jeanette, and numerous nieces, nephews and their families. In lieu of flowers, a memorial gift may be sent to St. Louis Catholic Church at www.saintlouisparish.org. Please view and sign the family guestbook online at: www.jeffersonfuneralchapel.com