Dorothy Ann ‘Dottie’ Kissner

Dorothy Ann “Dot­tie” Kiss­ner, 85, died peace­fully on Sat­ur­day (Oct. 20, 2012) at Coun­try View of Sun­bury Care Center.

Dot­tie was born in Colum­bus to Frances and Harold Brown on July 13, 1927. She lived most of her life in Delaware, grad­u­at­ing from Willis High School in 1945 and from Ohio Wes­leyan Uni­ver­sity in 1949 with a degree in com­mu­nity recre­ation. She met the love of her life, Richard “Dick” Kiss­ner, in third grade. They were mar­ried on July 30, 1949, and raised two chil­dren in the home they built on Olen­tangy View Drive. Dot­tie taught 2nd grade and high school girl’s PE for the Buck­eye Val­ley school dis­trict. Later, she entered a sec­ond career as a real estate agent, work­ing for local agen­cies, Dis­ben­net and HER. She attended Lib­erty Pres­by­ter­ian Church.

She will be remem­bered as a devoted wife and a lov­ing and fun mother and grand­mother. She enjoyed sports of all kinds and cheered with her hus­band for The Ohio State Buck­eyes and the New York Yan­kees. Upon retire­ment in 1982, she and Dick moved to Venice, Fla., where they lived for 22 years before return­ing to Delaware County in 2004.

Dot­tie is sur­vived by daugh­ter, Tracey Scott (Brad), of Pow­ell; grand­daugh­ters, Shawna Scott Hewitt (Cameron) and Court­ney Scott, both of Seat­tle, and Jes­sica Kiss­ner Tucker (Gene) of Mar­ion; great-granddaughters, Natalie, Emi­lie and Madalaine; sis­ters, Gene Nel­son (Jim), Arlou Senft and Vicki Osborn, all for­merly of Delaware; and nieces and nephews.

She was pre­ceded in death by Dick, her hus­band of 55 years; by her son, Jack; sis­ter, Jeanette Augs­burger; and brothers-in-law, Don­ald Senft and Harold Augsburger.

A memo­r­ial ser­vice will be held at a later date at Lib­erty Pres­by­ter­ian Church with inurn­ment at the church’s Path­way to the Son. Memo­r­ial con­tri­bu­tions may be made to Coun­try View of Sun­bury, Mem­ory Care Unit, 14961 N. Old 3C High­way, Sun­bury, OH 43074.

The fam­ily wishes to express heart­felt grat­i­tude to the car­ing staff at Coun­tryView where Dot­tie lived for more than four years and to Dottie’s for­mer stu­dent, Wendy, whose thought­ful remem­brances of “Mrs. K” meant so much.

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