Dorothy M. Wynne

Dorothy Wynne passed away Saturday, January 7, 2017 at the Yuma Life Care Center in Yuma, Colorado at the

age of 108 years.

Dorothy was born on January 13, 1908 the daughter of William and Evelyn May Brinkworth Sawyer in

Mankato, Kansas.

After graduation from high school she and her sister decided to move to Colorado. Finding themselves in Boulder,

Colorado, they found employment at the University of Colorado. Dorothy worked in the laundry.

Dorothy had one son by her first marriage. She married Lyle Wynne in 1944. They were married fifty five years.

Along with this marriage came three young children, ages eleven, eight, and six to love mother.

Dorothy was well suited for the work she chose. She worked at the main Montgomery Ward store in Denver,

then wanted a change so she went to Sears Roebuck and worked in the baby department for twenty five years before

retirement.

After retirement, she and her husband began to travel over most of the United States. They enjoyed taking

trips with their Calvary Temple Senior friends.

Growing up on the farm, chickens and horses where her favorite animals. Through out the years she

filled her home with a collection of chickens later passed on to a grandson-in-law who shared her love for

them.

She is survived by children Lois (George) Spellman, Donald Wynne and late wife Dorothy and Joan Kauahi, several grandchildren including Michael Bailey, Richard Bailey, Janet Strong, Kathleen (Michael) Holland and Beverly (Marvin) Pletcher, many great-grandchildren including Megan (Josh) Ringlein, Melissa (Ben) Augustine and Makala (Jeff) Koester and a few great-great grandchildren including Meritt Ringlein. She was preceded in death by her parents, Guy and May Sawyer, her beloved Lyle, siblings Bernard Sawyer and Evelyn Dunn and son Max Bailey.

Funeral services will be at 11:00am on Thursday, Jan. 19. at Olinger Crown Hill. Following the service, she will be placed with her husband Lyle at the Garden Mausoleum at Olinger Crown Hill Cemetery.

2 Timothy 4:7-8

7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.