Elizabeth Hochreiter Dunn

The funeral service will be held Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 11 am  at  St. Joan of Arc Church in Orleans, Massachusetts.  Visitation will be held Monday, Feb. 17, 5-7 pm at  Nickerson Funeral Home in Orleans. Burial will follow the funeral at  Massachusetts National Cemetery  at  1 pm Tuesday.

Elizabeth  was born in  Lincoln, Nebraska,  on  Sept. 13, 1921.  She  graduated from  Lincoln High School and continued on to receive a  bachelor’s of science and home economics degree  from  University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Elizabeth was married to  Joseph F. Dunn  on  Feb. 12, 1945. During a marriage that spanned 56 years until Joseph’s death in 2001, they lived in Nebraska, Massachusetts, Missouri, and Texas. They retired in 1981 to their summer home on Cape Cod.

Following college graduation, Elizabeth  worked as a  dietician at the University of Nebraska campus, planning and providing meals for servicemen during World War II. She was the mother of six children, worked as a home economics teacher, and later was assistant town clerk in Wilbraham, Massachusetts.

She  enjoyed  sewing, quilting, rug-hooking, painting, gardening, gourmet cooking, and travel.  She  also was actively involved in her sorority, Alpha Xi Delta, serving as her chapter’s president for a number of years, as well as the women’s club at her church, and Bridge groups. She loved telling stories.

Elizabeth  is survived by  her six children: Patricia Meneghelli (Lance), Marguerite Hankowski (Alan), Elizabeth Dunn (Anthony Goder), Joseph Dunn (Gary Gates), Kathleen Dunn Jacobs (David Miller), Peter Dunn (Heather); six grandchildren: Kathleen Weyer, Angela Dufresne, Suzanne Meneghelli, Alexander Hankowski, Katherine Hankowski, Christina Hankowski; great grandchildren: Elizabeth Weyer, Virginia Weyer, Alice Hankowski, William Hankowski, several nieces and nephews, and other family and friends.

Elizabeth  is preceded in death by husband Joseph, parents Otto and Katherine Hochreiter, siblings Mary Steinauer, Katharine Ochsenbein, Marguerite Stanley, Otto Hochreiter, and Max Hochreiter.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be sent to  St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105 (www.stjude.org) or Catholic Charities, 1600 Bay Street, PO Box M/So. Station, Fall River, MA 02724 (https://www.cssdioc.org/monetary-giftsonline-donation/).