© The Guthrie News Leader

Tuesday, December 9, 2003

Dorothy (Dot) was born in McCloud May 17, 1915, and died Friday, Dec. 5, 2003, in Guthrie.

She was the daughter of John and Alta Rosetta May Nealey and one of seven children that included five sisters and one brother Susie, Bessie, John, Lola, Lorita and Tahwahnah.

Like many Oklahomans, Dot moved with her family from Oklahoma in the 30's to California. It was there that she met the love of her life, Robert F. Gogan, who was a sailor in the U. S. Navy. On Jan. 18, 1947, after the end of World War II, they married, and for the next 20 years, they ran a hardware store in Pollock Pines, Calif. In retirement, they moved to Guthrie where her older sister Susie Uselton and her husband Frank were living.

Dot will be missed by many in her family as well as those friends that she had in the Guthrie community at Cole's Nursing Home where she has lived for the last few years.

Dot is survived by one brother, John Taylor and wife Bobbie; one sister, Lola and husband Howard Fitzpatrick; and three generations of nieces and nephews.

Services were held Monday, Dec. 8 at 10 a.m. with interment at Summit View Cemetery under the direction of Smith Funeral Home.

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