Dolores Earle, 91, entered into heaven becoming an angel amongst angels on October 20, 2020. Dolores was born the only child to Frank and Julia Slivka, both children of Czechoslovakian immigrants, in New York City on July 10, 1929. Her childhood years were spent living in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. As a teenager in the 1940’s, her family moved to Queens where at that time she became a fashion model. In 1955, she went on a weeklong ski package that included ski lessons at Mont Tremblant, Quebec. She was placed in the ski school of a Canadian ski instructor named Jack Earle. It was love at first sight on the ski slopes! The two became inseparable. They married that year on December 10, 1955 in New York City. It would be a marriage to last nearly 65 years. They decided to raise their soon-to-be family in California where in Los Angeles she gave birth to their daughter Laurie, followed by son Jeff. They moved to the suburbs of Anaheim, next to Disneyland, in 1957. There, she gave birth to her third son, David. In the late ‘70’s they moved to Anaheim Hills, then to South Lake Tahoe in 1986, and finally to their final home in Indian Hills (Carson City) in 2002 that she always affectionately referred to as “Shangri-La”.
Dolores was a proud homemaker and loving mother, always putting her children and her husband first above herself. Family meant everything to her. Her love and compassion towards everyone and everything showed no bounds. She loved animals (especially her cats), her flower garden, loved musicals, and held strong to her religious faith. She had an extraordinary life. She fished, hiked, golfed, loved to ski, ice skate, even cliff repelled. She traveled to nearly every part of this world, including six of the seven continents, sailed on 28 cruises, and adored RV camping all over this country as well as Canada. Loved by her family and by all who knew her, she will be dearly missed and never forgotten.
Among her survivors are her husband, Jack of Indian Hills; her daughter, Laurie Swanson and husband Keith of Genoa; son, David of Indian Hills; three grandchildren, Jason Scott, Jennifer Meyer, her husband Rich, and Randy Scott; and two great-grandchildren, Rayland and Jack.
In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Nevada Humane Society or Saint Peter's Episcopal Church in memory of Dolores.
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