SEAFORD - Dorothy A. Dickinson passed away Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at Genesis Seaford Center. Dorothy was one of eight children born to the late Addie (Scott) Gillenwater and Clarence Cleveland Gillenwater in Saltville, VA. She was a member of Holy Cross Catholic Church in Dover for over fifty years. She worked at General Foods/Kraft for twenty years, retiring in 1985. She did some traveling, but truly enjoyed being home and tending her flower gardens. Growing up, she loved the outdoors and was somewhat of a tomboy. She played on the girls' basketball team in high school. After graduation she moved to Kentucky, where she met her future husband, Gerald V. Dickinson. While he was overseas in Korea, she worked in a factory and as a waitress in The Brown Hotel in Louisville, KY. After the war, they were a military family and lived in various states until they were transferred to Dover Air Force Base in the early 1950's. After her husband's passing in 1966, she lived in a bungalow on Fifer's Orchards in Wyoming, DE for thirty years. She was content there, for she loved the smell of apples and peaches. Dorothy is survived by her daughter, Edris Ann Irwin-Jasper of Seaford; grandsons Samuel Allan and Charles Allan of NC; great-grandchildren, Christina Sherman of PA, Charles J. Allan and Paul Downs, both of Seaford, and Ryan, Sean and Sammy Allan of NC. She is also survived by an older sister, Lelia Davis of Augusta, GA and a nephew, Rick Davis of Bristol, NC. She also loved her extended family of Irwins; Scot, Dianna, "little" Scot, and Chelsea of Frederica, and Brian, Carmela, Alexander, Holly, Savannah and Shilyn Skubis of WV. The Jasper family was new to her and she did not have the chance to know them well, but she would have loved them deeply as well. A viewing will be held on Monday, March 10, 2014 at Watson-Yates Funeral Home, Front & King Sts., Seaford, where friends may call from 9:30 am - 10:30 am. A funeral mass will be held at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, 532 East Stein Highway, Seaford at 11 AM. Interment will follow at Our Lady of Lourdes Cemetery in Blades.