COLUMBIA - A memorial service for Dorothy Marie Lahman Alexander, 93, will be held at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, June 2, 2018 at Ebenezer Lutheran Church. The family will receive friends following the service at the church. Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, is assisting the family.
Mrs. Alexander died Thursday, May 17, 2018. Born in Dayton, Ohio on February 12, 1925, she was a daughter of the late William Lahman and Catherine Marie Weber Lahman. A Registered Nurse, she graduated in 1946 from Miami Valley Hospital Nursing School in Dayton, Ohio. She married Robert Herman Alexander on August 6, 1948 in Miamisburg, Ohio. They were married for 67 years when he passed away September 7, 2015.
She worked as an orthopedic nurse, volunteered at the South Carolina State Museum for 20 years and Palmetto Baptist Hospital for 15 years. An avid nature lover, she loved gardening, walking and being outside.
Surviving are her children, Barbara Greene of Charlotte, NC, Jane Bruno of Palm Beach Gardens, FL, and Nancy Alexander of Orange, VA; grandchildren, Richard Greene, Alex Greene, Kristin Utley, Lauren Godfrey, Kelly Bruno, and Anna Bruno; great-grandchildren, Nicholas Godfrey, Grace Godfrey, Elise Godfrey, Douglas Greene, Marshall Greene, Finn Utley and Alexandria Utley.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to SQ Rescue, Inc., P.O. Box 291450, Columbia, SC 29229 or an animal rescue charity of one’s choice.
Please sign the online guestbook at www.dunbarfunerals.com.
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