Dorothy C. Newell (nee Knollman)
June 10, 1939 – January 24, 2025

Dear daughter of the late Edward and Rose (Sciarrelli) Knollman; beloved wife of the late Richard G. Newell; dear mother of Jennifer Newell and Rebecca Lancaster; loving grandmother of Isabella and Lilly Lancaster; dear sister of Rosemary Knollman; dear aunt of Rick and Chris Holscher, dear fur mom to dog Penny, dear friend to many.

Dorothy was born and raised in St. Louis, also living a few years in Hawaii. She graduated from Southeast Missouri State University with a math degree and spent her career working as a cartographer for the Defense Mapping Agency in St. Louis until she retired in 1998.

She met Richard in September 1962, and they cemented their once-in-a-lifetime love through marriage in November 1962. "Dick and Dotty" lived in Hawaii for a time and moved back to St. Louis to start their family. From 1969 with her husband until his death in 1977 and afterward independently, Dorothy lovingly raised her daughters and then joyfully helped raise her granddaughters.

Raised Catholic, Dorothy eventually found her true spiritual home in the Unitarian Universalist community, where she spent the last several decades making and savoring lifelong friendships.

Dorothy spent years in NOW and NARAL, fighting for women's rights, including the Equal Rights Amendment, which she saw President Biden declare the law of the land one week before she died. Dotty believed in women, civil and human rights, democracy, science, truth and facts, journalism, mental health, all genders and ethnicities, true equality, dry humor and puns, kindness, and love in all forms.

Memorial Service at Eliot Unitarian Chapel, 100 S. Taylor Ave., Kirkwood, MO 63122 on Saturday, February 15 at 2pm. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Planned Parenthood, Unitarian Universalist Association, or Humane Society of Missouri.

Ortmann Stipanovich Funeral Home   www.osfuneralhomes.com