Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Dewar, Dixie Riley February 7, 2003 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Robert Woolfitt http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008401 April 8, 2022, 10:26 am Virginian-Pilot February 12, 2003 CHESAPEAKE - Dixie Riley Dewar, 74, of the 2900 block of Bunch Walnuts Road, devoted, loving mother and wife, went to be with the Lord on Feb. 7, 2003. Mrs. Dewar was a native of Oberlin, Kan. She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother, a sister and two daughters, Carol Anne Dewar and Nancy Dewar Powell. Mrs. Dewar graduated from Seton School of Nursing in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1949. She married William A. Dewar on July 30, 1950, in Oberlin, and moved to the Tidewater area. In the years to follow she was involved in Girl Scouting, raising her children and caring for multiple foster children. She was employed at Norfolk General Hospital for more than 15 years, during which she provided hospice care. Mrs. Dewar was an active member of The Catholic Church of Saint Stephen Martyr and attended weekly Bible study. She was involved in Christ The King Guild and delivered food for the Chesapeake Food Closet. Survivors include her husband, William Dewar; her children, William A. Dewar Jr., and his wife, Pam, Linda Hodges, and her husband Dave, a son-in-law, Bill Powell, Geralyn Hoggard, and her husband, Buddy, Karen Neary, and her husband, Jim, and David Dewar, and his wife, Ami; 16 grandchildren, Jason, Josh, April, Jenny, Michael, Annie, Mandy, Jessica, Bobby, Allen, Jeff, Ross, Josh, Molly, Alex and Hannah; and six great-grandchildren. A Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated Thursday at 11 a.m. at The Catholic Church of Saint Stephen Martyr by the Rev. James E. Gordon. Entombment will follow at St. Mary's Mausoleum in Norfolk. The family will receive friends Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. in H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments, Chesapeake Chapel. Memorial donations may be made to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Virginia Chapter 2101 Executive Drive, Box 21, Hampton, VA 23666. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/d/dewar2323nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/vafiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb