This is a tribute to my longtime friend. Dorothy Sue Harman. I first met her when I started working for Waremart, later the name changed to WinCo. When I first started though, she was on medical leave for a sprained ankle. Her son Kenny, was about 3 at the time, and she had sprained her ankle chasing him and tripped over his toys. Everyone called her old Dorothy because a new girl that was hired with me was also Dorothy. The first time I saw her I had to laugh because she was only about 20, and so was the new girl. The following summer, Doug, Dorothy, Cleve and I joined a summer bowling league with a few others from work and then we took a trip to Winnamucca at the end of the season. We had a lot of fun. Dorothy and I worked the evening shifts together so we got to know each other.
When the store moved to our big new store, Dorothy was in charge of stocking the stores bread. She had sundays and mondays off, and I worked her weekends going in at 3am on those days. I did that for about 5 years until Lorraine asked to take over that shift. Then on Dorothy's 14th anniversary, Doug proposed to her again, asking her to marry him allover again on their 15th. It was so sweet. Then in early spring of 2007, Dorothy was diagnosed with cancer. She had surgery, and they went ahead and on July 2nd on their 15th anniversary, they had their wedding. They had been married by a judge, so this was her wedding, and she rode in a horse drawn carriage, and at the end of the ceremony, they released doves
. I had to work until 11pm that day, but I got to see pictures and it was so beautiful. Dorothy got cancer a couple more times. She lost alot of weight, and her hair changed from straight blonde to dark curly brown,
but her smile never changed. One thing I still haven't done is, I haven't deleted her from my cell phone or my email. I'm sure that I will eventually.The cancer finally overtook her on May 3rd of this year. We will always miss her.
When the store moved to our big new store, Dorothy was in charge of stocking the stores bread. She had sundays and mondays off, and I worked her weekends going in at 3am on those days. I did that for about 5 years until Lorraine asked to take over that shift. Then on Dorothy's 14th anniversary, Doug proposed to her again, asking her to marry him allover again on their 15th. It was so sweet. Then in early spring of 2007, Dorothy was diagnosed with cancer. She had surgery, and they went ahead and on July 2nd on their 15th anniversary, they had their wedding. They had been married by a judge, so this was her wedding, and she rode in a horse drawn carriage, and at the end of the ceremony, they released doves
. I had to work until 11pm that day, but I got to see pictures and it was so beautiful. Dorothy got cancer a couple more times. She lost alot of weight, and her hair changed from straight blonde to dark curly brown, but her smile never changed. One thing I still haven't done is, I haven't deleted her from my cell phone or my email. I'm sure that I will eventually.The cancer finally overtook her on May 3rd of this year. We will always miss her.
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