Avis de décès de Dorothy-Marie Bartlett - Nécrologie - MesAieux.com

NORTHFIELD – Dorothy M. Bartlett, 82, a longtime area resident, died Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, at the Merrimack County Nursing Home following a period of failing health. Dot was born in Hill, May 8, 1932, daughter of Ross and Doris (Mosher) Woodward. She lived in Hill until leaving at the age of 8. Dorothy graduated from Franklin High School, class of 1950. She lived in Franklin for over 30 years, moving to Belmont in 1985. She moved to Tilton in 2005 later to Northfield in 2010 to live with her daughter, Mary. She was a dressmaker and seamstress for over 30 years and for a time worked in the laundry at Mountain Ridge Health Care Center in Franklin, giving this work up to care for her husband, Harland, when he became ill in 2004. Dorothy always had an opinion and voiced it when she felt it was necessary. She was predeceased by her husband of 49 years, Harland L. Bartlett who died in 2004; daughters, Velma Joslyn in 2004 and Susan Bartlett in 2012. Also brothers, Herbert and Ralph Woodward; and son-in-law, Aurlow Stanley. She leaves, two daughters, Glenna Stevens of Manchester and Mary Stanley of Northfield; stepson, Thomas Geer of Contoocook; grandchildren, Zachary Stanley, Ben Stevens, Julie Partridge, Brie Elliott, Lissa Tupeck, Kiley Joslyn and Stephanie Stevens. Two great-grandchildren; her sister, Marion Gokey of Tilton; her brother, Harold Woodward of Franklin; and numerous nieces and nephews and cousinsCalling hours will be held Thursday, Jan. 29, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the William F. Smart Sr. Memorial Home, Franklin-Tilton Road, 584 West Main St., in Tilton. A funeral service will be held Friday, Jan. 30, at 10 a.m. in the Memorial Home.Spring burial will be in the family lot at Franklin Cemetery in Franklin. Those wishing may make memorial contributions in Dorothy's name to Merrimack County Nursing Home, "directed to the Special Care Unit", 325 Daniel Webster Highway, Boscawen, NH 03303.For more information go to smartfuneralhome.com.