Custer-Dawson County NeArchives Obituaries.....Elfgren, Dorothy Oatley September 11, 2010
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Lexington Clipper-Herald Sept. 15, 2010
Dorothy Elfgren died on Sept.11, 2010 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney at
the age of 96. 

Funeral services will be held Wednesday Sept. 15, 2010 at 10:30 AM at Govier
Bros. Mortuary in Broken Bow with Reverend Roger Sloan officiating.

Burial will be in the Broken Bow Cemetery.

Visitation was Tuesday at Govier Bros. Mortuary with the family greeting friends
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

She was born Aug.15, 1914 to Ina Oatley in East Killingly, Conn.  She was
adopted at a young age by her grandparents, Henry and Ellie Oatley.  While
growing up, she lived with her grandparents in a two-tenant house.  Her mother
Ina and stepfather, Harold Brooks and siblings lived in the other side of the
house.  She attended school in East Killingly until the age of 18, when she went
to work in the office at the Acme mill. 

She was united in marriage to Ernest T. Elfgren on Sept. 22, 1935 at Port Ann,
N.Y.  They were parents of six children – Oscar, Carl, Sandra, Roger, Linda and
Donna.  Dorothy was a devoted wife and mother.  Her family was her main focus in
life.

She resided in Connecticut until 1955 when she became a modern day pioneer,
traveling with her husband and family to Nebraska in a covered wagon, getting to
Broken Bow in August of 1956.  She resided in Berwyn until the family moved to
Gothenburg and then later to Lexington, where she lived in her own home until
her death.

She enjoyed traveling and returned to Connecticut several times to visit the
many relatives that resided in the east.  All you had to do is call mom up, tell
her to get ready because we were going shopping or some place and she was ready
to go.

Dorothy loved to embroider and knit.  She knitted afghans for all her children,
grandchildren and great-grandchildren and was a blanketeer for Project Linus. 
People were always welcome in her home and when someone showed up at mealtime,
she set an extra plate on the table.    When visiting with Dorothy, she gifted
them with one of the many dishcloths she had knit. 

Dorothy had 15 grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren, and four
great-great-grandchildren and throughout the years, was known as “Gramma Dot” to
many.

Survivors include three sons, Oscar Elfgren, Lexington; Carl Elfgren, Overton
and Roger Elfgren, Elm Creek; three daughters, Sandra (Junior) Dunkel, Broken
Bow; Linda (Delbert) Smith, Cozad and Donna (Michael) Hatfield, Lexington; 15
grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren;
brother, Allen Brooks of Brooklyn, Conn.; sister-in-law, Wynne Brooks, Madison,
Wis.; sister-in-law, Francis Pechie, East Killingly, Conn. and several nieces,
nephews and special family friends, Phyllis Samp, Westerville and Dick and Ann
Bush, Pahrump, Nev.

Dorothy was preceded in death by her husband, Ernest; parents Ina and Harold
Brooks; grandparents Henry and Ellie Oatley; brother Henry Brooks; sisters
Florence Osterhoudt and Alice Griffin; sister-in-law Hildur Weeden;
brothers-in-law Ralph Elfgren and Arthur Elfgren and daughter-in-law Irene Elfgren.

 

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