Dorothy Jean (Schussler) Drew |
| Posted 2009-05-11 by Arizona Newspapers |
| Dorothy Jean Drew, 99, of Kearny, died April 9, 2007 at Heritage House in Globe of complications due to Alzheimer’s. Mrs. Drew lived in Kearny for a short time with her son, Glenn Edward Drew. She was born Jan. 24, 1908 in Tecumseh, Michigan to Frederick and Mary Helen Schussler and was the youngest of four children. In 1926, she graduated from Warrant State Hospital in Pennsylvania as a psychiatric nurse. Later that year, she married Matthew Duncan. Of this marriage, three children survived, Jean, Fred and Matt. She divorced Mr. Duncan in 1946. She moved with her children to Arizona where she met and married Glenn Edwin Drew of Pima. Of this union, two children were born, Glenn Edward and Marie Pauline. Pauline died at birth. After the death of Glenn Edwin in 1974, she moved to Houston to live with her daughter, Jean, where she lived until Jean’s death in 2005. Dorothy, with her daughter Jean, traveled extensively throughout the United States and in Canada and Europe. She has ridden everything from a gondola in Venice to white water rafting in Montana and the Maid of the Mist on the Niagara. She has hiked up Mount Rushmore and worn wooden shoes in Holland. One of her favorite places to go was Seven Flags in Texas with her grandchildren. She loved to dance and go places with her family. Prior to her retirement, she worked as a psychiatric nurse in Pennsylvania; during World War II she was a freight clerk and supervisor of a Native American maintenance crew in Winslow; and as a nurse’s aide at the Safford Inn Hospital and Safford Nursing Home. She is preceded in death by her parents, her husbands, siblings, eight children and three grandsons. Surviving are sons, Dr. Mathew (Mary) Duncan of Glen Ivy, California and Glenn Edward (Becky) Drew of Kearny; seven grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and 12 great-great-grandchildren. A closed casket service will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Pima Ward in Pima with interment following at 3 p.m. in Pima Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of Griffith Mortuary in Kearny. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Alzheimer’s Association or another charity. 04/10/07 See Also: Find A Grave |
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