Dolores,
	What an unjust death! I hope your suffering was brief and that you surrendered your sweet heart and beautiful soul to Life. You’re a part of beauty, goodness, truth, and love and will forever shine with radiance. The last few years at work have been challenging. You served as director for over a year and a half in addition to completing your duties. Changes in procedure working with a new, maddeningly broken system in the absence of adequate training added to the frustration.
	You remained professional through trying circumstances, problem-solved, and showed dedication to staff and especially students; your hard work and expertise is exemplary. You aimed for excellence, and you achieved it.  
	You taught me something valuable about going above and beyond. When we complete work that lies outside of our regular duties, we risk being used, investing in others rather than in ourselves, and being excluded from merited job-related rewards. I’ve learned that regardless of negative repercussions, we learn something, and it will invariably make us more knowledgeable, successful employees and better people. This is what I know, but you taught me something else.
	We met several times via Teams to resolve problems together and you also called me. “After the holidays (Thanksgiving),” you said, near the end of our last call, “we should get together and have a cup of coffee.” That would have been wonderful but didn’t happen. 
This is what I learned: when we help others without thought of rewards or consequences, we connect. You touched my life, Dolores, and I came to care about you personally. Thank you.
It was an honor working with you.
I wish your loved ones healing and wholeness. 
Rest in peace, sweet lady.  
Pauline	


May your wife's, your mother's, grandmother's, and sibling's memory be for a blessing to you and yours. She assisted many Veterans and provided support when needed as she did her work. She was very helpful whenever I asked.

Dolores was in our Italian class.  She was such a sweet lady.   I'm so saddened to hear of her passing.  My deepest condolences to her family and especially to Stephen.

Pam Riccardo Thomas

My beautiful Mom at a restaurant in Disneyland 💜

This is the day my Mom got baptized, along with Steve and her two granddaughters, Eleanora and Emmeline, last Spring.

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Dolores Renee Taylor

September 8, 1956 – December 13, 2022

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