Dorothy Bartow was born in Portland Oregon in on February 21, 1915 to Emma and Emil Hafner. Emil worked on the railroad which involved
relocating to Woodland Washington, Sacramento California, Oakland California and eventually to South Beach Oregon on the
south side of Yaguina Bay.
Dorothy went to High School on the northside of Yaguina Bay in Newport Oregon.
She met General Horace "Bart" Bartow, her future husband, in high school. Bart graduated from Newport High in 1934
and started working for a logging company on the Skagit river in northern Washington near Everett. When Dorothy graduated in 1935 she went to
Everett and married Bart. Shortly after Dorothy and Bart relocated to the Rainier Beach
area in Seattle, later moved to Beacon Hill, then Mt Baker Park, and eventually to the Lakeridge area at the southern end of Seattle near Renton.
They had a son, Philip, born in December of 1936 and a son Jeffery born in April 1942. Dorothy and Bart had five grandchildren. Philip had three children
(Jules, Sarah and Christopher) and Jeffery had had two children (Lee Marie and Christine).
The grandchildren in turn provided six great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild, - - four generations
Bart's parents pioneered in the Yaguina Bay area, a rough western wilderness, where logging and fishing and related industries dominated. Bart's career touched on all
facits of logging, tug boating and marine construction in the Seattle and surrounding areas. Dorothy was an industrious and creative mother who
worked in and explored several occupations -- day care, medical assistant, secretary, office manager, artist. From the early sixties on she painted, took
courses at the university and at private studios. (See Art1 and Art2 below).
She developed a passion for bridge and square dancing in the late fifties. She was an active bridge player until 2006.
Bart had three sisters and two brothers. Dorothy had two Sisters. Virginia was born to Emma and Emil.
Emma remarried and Betty was born to Emma and Jack O'Brien.
She lost beloved husband Bart in February of 2004. She was cared for by her son Philip since July of 2004 . Dorothy passed away quietly in her home on January 28, 2009.
Two weeks before she answered a question correctly asked on the TV program Jeopary before the host finished asking the question. The contestants
did not get the answer which was --a woman's work is never done.
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