HART, DOROTHY
Dorothy Jean Hart, 95, of Main Street Care Center (Sprenger Health Care System), Avon Lake, passed away on Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020, of Corona Virus 2019. Dolly was born July 5, 1924 to Mayme (Bailey) and George Albert Reimer, at Deaconess Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. She grew up on S Boone Road, in Columbia Station, Lorain County, graduating Columbia High School 1942 as an excellent student, cheer leader and musician. She worked that summer as a “Rosie the Riveter” at the bomber plant (todays IX Center), and then attended Bowling Green State University as a music major, and Oberlin Business School. Dolly married Robert Beckwith in 1944, living in Berea, Avon Lake, where she was active in the Avon Lake Players, and in Bay Village. The couple moved to Avon Lake in 1950, as her husband Bob went to work as a manager for his father, Fred Williams who owned Williams Ford of Avon Lake. She married her second husband Arthur Rogers of Elyria, proprietor of Rogers Photography Studio. They bought a Cessna 172 and got their pilots licenses and were the first husband and wife team in Lorain County to do so. Their air travel included trips to ...Read More