Dorothy Avis Dailey Reich passed away Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. She was a strong, resourceful, beautiful wife and mother who would have been 104 on March 14. Dorothy was much admired for her independence and perseverance as well as for her longevity.
She lived many places in her early years, traveling from Billings, Montana, where she was born, to Idaho and Wyoming, and on to Washington and Oregon by the time she was 5. This included a home on Coal Creek Road in Chehalis when she was around 4. She spent most of the rest of her childhood between Yakima, Washington, where her mother and stepfather lived, and Tracy, California, where her father worked on the railroad.
In 1939, she married Arnold Reich in Yakima, where they had met in a fruit packing warehouse. After the wedding, they spent several years working in fruit orchards and construction projects in California before Arnold got work in Bremerton and they returned to Washington permanently.
In 1943, Arnold was hired at the Hanford project in Richland and Dorothy and their two girls moved with him to the Tri-Cities. They lived there until Arnold’s death in 1966. Dorothy then moved to Bonney Lake with her youngest daughter and trained for and became an LPN. She worked at Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup until she retired in 1980 and moved to Chehalis. After retirement, Dorothy spent most of her time working in her yard and the gardens that she loved so much. Her property became a source of admiration for neighbors and those who passed by. In 2019, to celebrate her 100th birthday, she traveled with eight friends and family members to Ireland to see where her dad’s family had come from.
At 103, she had outlived her parents, Elsie Morris Dailey Wray and Harry Dailey, her siblings, Lucella Dailey Belshee Bowers and Morris Dailey, and most of her nieces and nephews. She is survived by her daughters, Loretta Reich Rippee, Phyllis Reich Wellander and Marcia Reich Peterson, as well as six grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren.
She will be laid to rest at Claquato Cemetery with her husband Arnold.
A memorial will be planned at a later date.
In Loving Memory of Dorothy Reich: 1919-2023
Dorothy Avis Dailey Reich passed away Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. She was a strong, resourceful, beautiful wife and mother who would have been 104 on March 14. Dorothy was much admired for her independence and perseverance as well as for her longevity.
She lived many places in her early years, traveling from Billings, Montana, where she was born, to Idaho and Wyoming, and on to Washington and Oregon by the time she was 5. This included a home on Coal Creek Road in Chehalis when she was around 4. She spent most of the rest of her childhood between Yakima, Washington, where her mother and stepfather lived, and Tracy, California, where her father worked on the railroad.
In 1939, she married Arnold Reich in Yakima, where they had met in a fruit packing warehouse. After the wedding, they spent several years working in fruit orchards and construction projects in California before Arnold got work in Bremerton and they returned to Washington permanently.
In 1943, Arnold was hired at the Hanford project in Richland and Dorothy and their two girls moved with him to the Tri-Cities. They lived there until Arnold’s death in 1966. Dorothy then moved to Bonney Lake with her youngest daughter and trained for and became an LPN. She worked at Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup until she retired in 1980 and moved to Chehalis. After retirement, Dorothy spent most of her time working in her yard and the gardens that she loved so much. Her property became a source of admiration for neighbors and those who passed by. In 2019, to celebrate her 100th birthday, she traveled with eight friends and family members to Ireland to see where her dad’s family had come from.
At 103, she had outlived her parents, Elsie Morris Dailey Wray and Harry Dailey, her siblings, Lucella Dailey Belshee Bowers and Morris Dailey, and most of her nieces and nephews. She is survived by her daughters, Loretta Reich Rippee, Phyllis Reich Wellander and Marcia Reich Peterson, as well as six grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren.
She will be laid to rest at Claquato Cemetery with her husband Arnold.
A memorial will be planned at a later date.
