"…Now if Dorothy was sitting next to you in a church pew now, you know that she’d be in your ear making comments like, ‘What’s he saying, I can’t hear him?’ or ‘I don’t agree with that.’ She was loud, Dot, she knew her own mind very well indeed and expressed herself without constraint. This could make her difficult to live with at times – until you realised that often she was right, or at least that she was fighting for something she felt was right. How many residents of Rotary House have received extra help from social services or the NHS because Dorothy has stood up for them; how many Red Cross missions have been strengthened by her determined leadership…"
Click here for my eulogy in celebration of 'that tour-de-force, that force of nature, in our lives, (who) stirred things up, and supported us all so much.'
