This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stennett, Shagla, Bates, Pettit, Emborsky, Destro, Sampson, Kightlinger Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/11979 Message Board Post: PJ: 5/20/2002: Dorothy E. Shagla Stennett, 79, formerly of 26 Chestnut St. and Old Fluvanna Road, died t 10:44 a.m. Thursday May 16, 2002 in Heritage Green Health Care Center. A lifelong area resident, she was born June 20, 1922, in Sherman, the daughter of Herman E. and Ethel M. Pettit Bates. She was a 1940 graduate of Jamestown High School, and along with her first husband, she owned and operated the Maple Leaf Restaurant from 1947 to 1957 and The Apple Inn from 1957 until retiring in 1989. She attended Christ First United Methodist Church. She was also the past president, vice president, secretary and treasurer of the Chautauqua County Beverage Dealers Association, state secretary of the United Restaurant Association, a delegate to the National Restaurant Association and a member of the American Association of Retired Persons and Jamestown Senior Citizens. She will be remembered by her many friends and customers for her wonderful organ and piano music that she played at The Apple Inn for their enjoyment. She also enjoyed her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and her knitting for family and friends. She loved playing cards with her friends of many years. She is survived by a son, Thom E. Shagla of Bemus Point; two daughters: Christine M. Emborsky and Nancy L. Shagla Destro, both of Jamestown; five grandchildren; Stephanie E. Shagla of Charlotte, N.C., and Michael D. Sampson, Marcy L. Kightlinger, Christopher T. and Anthony D. Destro II, all of Jamestown; and a brother, Robert E. Bates of Livingston, Tenn. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Chris T. Shagla, whom she married Aug. 16, 1942, and who died April 16, 1995, and her second husband, Homer E. Stennett, whom she married June 14, 1996, and who died Aug. 6, 2001. Burial will be in Sunset Hill Cemetery.