Dorothy Anna Lu (Hall) Schild passed on October 25, 2015, three days prior to her 91st birthday in Walla Walla, Wash.
She married Russell Blower in 1944 of Lakeport, California. He passed away in 1956. Dorothy later married Glenn Carr, a widower with three children from Milton-Freewater in 1958. He passed away suddenly in 1961. In 1964, she met and married Emil Schild, also a widower with two children in College Place, WA. They later settled in Milton-Freewater. Emil passed away in 2001, again leaving her a widow alone. Dorothy moved into Eagle Meadows Assisted Care Living Facility in College Place, Washington. In 2015, illness forced her to move into Regency at the Park Nursing Home, where she has lived since.
Dorothy is a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in College Place. She worked as a nurse’s aide for many years. Dorothy and Emil Schild helped to manage a nursing home in Milton-Freewater for a number of years. She loved gardening, needlework, reading, crossword puzzles, and reading her bible until declining health prevented her from doing many of the things she enjoyed.
She has survived the loss of her parents, her three husbands, two brothers: James Carl Hall in 1998 and Edward Eugene Hall in 1985, stepsons: Leon Carr in 2011 and Floyd Schild in 2014; a niece: Carla (Hall) Howard in 2008, and a nephew: James Hall in 2013.
He remaining family consists of step-children: Donna Schild (Floyd), Milton-Freewater, OR, Kathleen (Schild) Thompson, Nampa, ID, Neil Carr, College Place, WA, and Nelda (Carr) King, Weston, OR; 2 nieces: Barbara (Hall) Horn, Hermiston, OR, Gisele (Hall) Blanton, Federal Way, WA; 2 nephews: Edward A. Hall, Pendleton, OR, and Edward E. Hall Jr., Greeley, CO, and many other extended family members.
A private family burial will take place at the Hermiston Cemetery next to her first husband, Russell Blower.
Please sign the online guest book at burnsmortuaryhermiston.com.
Burns Mortuary of Hermiston is in care of arrangements.
