BULKHEAD CITY, Arizona — From sleep to eternal sleep is what happened to Dorothy, in the early hours of February 10, 2018. Daughter of Herbert and Angie (Allen) Lapham. Born May 21, 1920, in Brunswick, Maine.
Dorothy and husband, Wilfred, headed for Burbank, California, in March 1963; in a snowstorm, to a job and apartment waiting for Wilfred.
Besides her parents and two dearly loved uncles, Dot was predeceased by her two sisters, Viola Rhodes (Guy) and Ameida Orr (Kenneth), and one brother, Harold Lapham (Betty), youngest son, Richard E. Lachance, in January 2018. Husband Wilfred on June 23, 1996, after a courageous trip to Maine to visit his family the first of the month.
She will be laid to rest beside Wilfred at Desert Lawn Gardens in Mohave Valley, Arizona.
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