VIRGINIA BEACH, VA — Dorothy D. Colwell, a long time resident of Topsham, ME and currently of Virginia Beach, VA, died on March 1, 2013. She was born June 4, 1930 in Glen Cove, NY, to the late Edmund J. and Lucy Reichert Denzler. She graduated from Sea Cliff (NY) High School, Berkeley Secretarial School of New York City, and for many years was employed as a legal secretary, retiring from McTeague-Higbee of Topsham in 1992.
In 1955 she married Anthony M. Colwell, Jr., who predeceased her in 2001. She was also predeceased by her son Anthony III, in 1980.
She was an avid reader, whose other hobbies included needlework, gardening and genealogy, having traced her family back multiple generations.
Her survivors include her daughters, Mary Hally and her husband Matthew of Branford, CT, Christine Colwell and her partner Joseph Bent of Nobleboro, ME, Jane Colwell of Branford, Rosemary Gagnon and her husband Mark of Virginia Beach, VA and Geraldine Metzger of Virginia Beach. She is also survived by her grandchildren, Erin Metzger and Mark Hally, her sister Helen Denzler of Springfield, OR, several nieces and nephews, and cherished cousins Chris and Barbara Reichert of Van Wert, OH.
Memorial donations may be made to a human society of one’s choice.
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