Dinah Marie Dubble

Her parents were Anna Elizabeth Moyer (kept her maiden name) and Noah Chapman and she was an only child. (Anna raised Dinah as a single parent, with help from her parents, Noah was never a significant presence in my mom's life.)

Dinah is survived by three children and six grandchildren; son Scott Dubble, his wife, Robyn Cloughley, daughter Beth Dubble, Beth's children Zack and Josh Dubble, and son Todd Dubble his wife, Jen Dubble, and their children Jocelyn, Logan, Elora, and Azalea.

She graduated from Reading High School in 1959, and from the Reading Hospital School of Nursing in 1962.

Dinah was drawn to work that directly helped others and was very proud of the nursing education she received and her lifetime of work as a registered nurse including her time at the Reading Hospital and Johns Hopkins, with a particular love for coronary care medical intensive care. Dinah deeply believed that God is Love and that motivated her to do her best to help create a better world, one rooted in love and compassion for our human family and all God's creation. First, through her direct compassion for each individual in her care, then after her nursing career, writing a book describing her philosophy and approach to transcending material limitations and tapping into that energy of Love to work toward positive change.

While Dinah was amazed by technological progress and advances in medicine, she also expressed some distress at feeling there had been a shift over the years from a primary focus on each individual patient's health instilled in her during her training toward a primary focus on corporate profits, negatively influencing the quality of care delivered to many people. She continued to be a passionate advocate for healthcare for all and many causes aimed at providing assistance for those who were most disadvantaged both at home and around the world. She was always ready to have a conversation about God's call to act from a state of Love, the state of healthcare and how access and its delivery could be improved, her family and loved ones. She supported many social justice, health-oriented, and environmental advocacy organizations, mentioning St. Jude's often and was deeply inspired by the work of Dr. Farmer and the organization he helped found, Partners in Health https://www.pih.org. She believed he set a wonderful example of how one person can truly inspire others to help effect a great amount of positive change in the world and this would be a wonderful place to donate on her behalf.

While Dinah's outward persona was as a nurse, her love for her family was central to her identity. Raising three children as a single parent in the '70s was difficult, and she often worked two and three jobs to ensure her children weren't lacking. Shortly after our parents divorced, her mother moved in and became the children's loving Nanny from then on, creating a home filled with unconditional love.

Dinah was always a fun-loving, often somewhat mischievous, and adventurous spirit, who valued education and instilled those qualities in her children. We spent many happy holidays when we were young with the extended family at the usual gathering spot, Aunt Amy and Uncle Les' house. She enjoyed spending time with her children, watching TV, playing board games, and traveling to the ocean. Favorite destinations were the Jersey Shore, especially Wildwood, and Virginia Beach. We also spent time in the Reading Museum, picnicking at the Pagoda, driving the Skyline Highway, visiting historical sites like Gettysburg, the Liberty Bell, Statue of Liberty, national museums in Washington D.C., and colonial Williamsburg.

Her sense of adventure led experiences living all over the country, outside of Baltimore, rural northern Maryland, the Maryland Shore, and El Paso where Scott graduated from high school and briefly moved to Austin before joining the Air Force. From El Paso, Dinah moved the rest of the family to a small 10-bed hospital in Iraan, a small town in rural West Texas, where Beth Graduated from high school. Dinah's next adventure was in Las Vegas, where Todd graduated from high school. Dinah and Beth came to visit Scott in Italy and Germany, and then, as the joke became, gave Todd a one-way ticket out of the country for graduation from high school, to spend a summer in Italy with Scott.

The next adventure was Washington State, from where Dinah took various traveling nurse positions in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Steamboat Springs, CO, then a longer period in Harlingen, TX where Beth and her boys joined her and Nanny for a while, before they all returned to Washington's fairy land tall trees, big rivers, and Puget Sound.

Dinah cherished her family, always looking for ways to support us and encourage us, and ever vigilant for news of our latest adventures and opportunities to stay connected, especially with her grandchildren. Dinah saw the best in us and believed we could do anything, then helped us believe in ourselves.

While Dinah made many friends along the way, she maintained a strong connection with, and love for, her cousin Ruthie and her extended family, who in turn kept us updated on happenings and family in Reading, and their various adventures. Another important loving friendship maintained over the years was with her close friend from nurses training, Marlene Falvey.

Dinah was a unique, strong, intelligent, loving, and well-loved woman with a passion for helping others. While we are grateful that she has transcended the hardships of her last weeks and the limitations of her physical form, and is at peace in the "all-surrounding Ocean of Love that God Is, and Was, and Ever Will Be" described in a prayer that her mother said every night, her physical presence will be missed dearly by those who knew and loved her until the time comes to join her.