Grandmie Years
These may have been the hardest of her life other than she got to do what she loved best and that was to travel. You see her daughter married an Air Force NCO so it was a many of trips to visit.
Her first grandchild, Christopher David Nybro was born 3 weeks early on January 28, 1978 at a no longer active base of Blytheville AFB, Mississippi County, Arkansas. Her first plane right from Chicago to Memphis, the Jonesboro. She was thrilled. On March 6, 1979 and 3 weeks late Lynda Heather Nybro appeared and one month later her and Robert drove down to spend a week with their grandchildren.
Then in 1981 it was trips to the Black Hills and the Badlands of South Dakota as Denns was stationed at Ellsworth AFB. They loved making trips out there, Robert could watch the "dogs" run and Dorothea had unlimited areas to shop, dine out, and it was beautiful country and as she said as friendly as her hometown area of Carrier Mills.
But at 43 years of marriage, Robert died on April 2, 1998 at the exact age as his father, she told people. But it wasn't until her brother died in January of 1999 that she began to close herself off from people. She resented her niece just dropping in, she sister-in-law just coming over and taking charge. She began to hate life, and didn't go out enjoy it has she had before. She use to enjoy just picking her daughter and granddaughter up and just spending the day when they were not working. She would have her grandson over to help her with yard work, or just to drive her around from place to place.
She would come out to the Nybro's home for a family get together. And then in 2006 she was pushed down hitting her head which brought on her alzheimer's very early stages. In late 2007 she was not allowed to see her daughter due to some family feud that was started long before.
But on May 13, 2012 she went to heaven to be with her brother to live in peace at last.