Dorothy Parks

Dorothy Parks, 86, died of natural causes Oct. 6, 2010, at the Alaska Veterans and Pioneers Home in Palmer.

Dorothy was born Oct. 4, 1924, in Hamilton, Ohio. She first moved to Alaska in 1955, starting out in Anchorage and Eagle River, then on to Palmer in the 1960s. Dorothy travelled extensively around the country, settling for a few years at a time a ranch in Arkansas, a farm in Indiana and a place in Florida. But she always came back to Alaska.

Dorothy loved to create all sorts of needlecraft, do gardening and cook. She loved to spoil her grandchildren with homemade goodies.

She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, James and Kathi Van Zant; grandchildren Kim Levesque, Richard Byers, David Byers and Ivory Van Zant; and great-granddaughter Emily Levesque.

Arrangements were with Legacy Funeral Homes and Cremation Services — Kehl’s Palmer Chapel.