Dorothy Ruth (Scott) Montgomery passed away quietly the evening of June 24, 2011 after a brief illness. Dottie, as she was known, was born August 22, 1914, in Fairmount, Indiana, the daughter of Merle Luthur Scott and Georganna (Davis) Scott. On July 22, 1936, she married Edwin Jones Montgomery Sr. of Tucson, Arizona, whom she met when both were students at the University of Arizona. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a daughter, Bethany Scott Montgomery, and a sister, Sarah Kathleen Foster. She is survived by her son, Edwin, Jr., two daughters, Dorothy Joan Parker and Mary Anna Soifer, a sister Barbara Joan Cox, thirteen grandchildren, twenty-two great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
A gifted writer and speaker, Dottie helped her husband found the first commercial helicopter service in the United States (Arizona Helicopter Service) in 1946 by traveling around the southwest and speaking at service clubs, Chambers of Commerce, city councils and the like to advertise the capabilities of that new means of transportation. She represented her husband again in March of this year when he was inducted posthumously into the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame as a helicopter pioneer.
There will be a Memorial Service for her at Swan-Law Cascade Chapel, 501 N. Cascade Avenue, on Friday July 1, 2011 at 4:00 in the evening, with Father Donald Armstrong, Rector of St. George’s Anglican Church where she was a member, officiating. Her ashes will be interred with her husband’s at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Columbus, Georgia, at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, friends are asked to support the Alzheimer’s Association of Colorado, at 455 Sherman Street, Suite 500, Denver, CO 80203 in her memory.
Arrangements under the direction of Swan-Law Funeral Directors, Colorado Springs, CO.
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