This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XY.2ADE/738 Message Board Post: NOTE-I am not related to this family Loveland Reporter Herald (Loveland, Larimer, Colorado) Thursday July 24, 2003 page B-4 Preifer (picture) Dorothy L. “Dottie” Pfeifer, 76, of Longmont and formerly of Berthoud, died July 21, 2003, at Boulder Community Hospital. She was born Dec. 22, 1926, in Hays City, Kan., to Valentine B. and Barbara Seitz Orth. She grew up and attended school in Hays and was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church. She married Vitus Pfeifer in Hays on Sept. 14, 1948. The couple moved to Colorado from Kansas in 1952. Mrs. Pfeifer worked for food service in the schools for 30 years. She served at schools in Lyons, Berthoud and Longmont and always enjoyed what she was doing. For the past couple of years she volunteered at the OUR Center in Longmont. She was a life member of the Ladies Auxiliary for both the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion. She and her husband enjoyed traveling and visited many places in Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean, Puerto Rico and the United States. They also enjoyed dancing and went to polka and Dutch hop dances. The couple had lived part time in Arizona for a number of years. She loved to grow flowers and enjoyed many different kinds of crafts, including needlework, sewing, knitting and making anything that she saw and liked. She is survived by her husband, Vitus Pfeifer; four daughters, Sharon Eliasen and husband Dan of Berthoud, Phyllis Stewart and husband Norman of Bella Vista, Ark., Pam Cross and husband Jack of Rogers, Ark., and Jackie Wolf and husband Greg of Loveland; two brothers; two sisters; seven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two sisters. A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. today at Guardian Angels Catholic Church in Mead, with the Rev. Robert Whipkey presiding. Burial will follow at Longmont Mountain View Cemetery. Memorial contributions can be made to the Dorothy Pfeifer Memorial Fund in care of First Community Bank, 600 Kimbark St., Longmont, 80501.