Dorothy J. Winslow, 83

Published 2:12 pm Saturday, October 2, 2010

Dorothy Jeanne Winslow, age 83 of Austin, passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010, at Cedarview Care Center in Owatonna.

Jeanne was born on May 11, 1927, to Dr. Joseph and AdElla (Compton) Winslow in LaMoure, N.D. After graduating from high school, she attended Jamestown College in Jamestown, N.D., and then transferred to North Dakota State in Fargo. When she completed her degree work, she taught in North Dakota for a few years before transferring to Minnesota teaching in Hancock and Alexandria before coming to Austin in 1958. She also earned her Master’s Degree at Iowa State in Ames. Jeanne taught Home Economics at Ellis until retiring in 1989.

Jeanne loved to travel. She made the world more beautiful, too, with her flower gardening and decorated the Fellowship Hall in the Presbyterian Church every Sunday with those flowers and many other types of decorations that she gathered together, trying to use different things every Sunday as well as on special occasions.

Jeanne was a member of P.E.O., Chapter BZ, the Hospital Auxiliary, Austin Area Retired Teachers, the Mower County Historical Society, Presbyterian Women of the Congregation, and various other giving organizations. She also had many, many friends who shared their time and prayers with her through the long months of hospitalization and nursing home time battling her cancer condition.

She is survived by her sister Martha Myhrum of Michigan and her twin sister Jane Johnson of Iowa City as well as her sister-in-law Elaine Winslow of Idaho. She was a favorite Auntie Jeanne, always full of energy, gifts in hand, and creative to encourage family relationships for her 30 nieces and nephews. Few of them recognized differences between her and her lifetime identical twin sister, Jane. She is also survived by a friend of many years, Jo Knobel.

She was preceded in death by her parents: Dr. Joseph H. Winslow and her mother AdElla Winslow, her brothers: Harold, Donald, and Charles, her sisters: Ruth Mary and Joan.

The celebration honoring Jeanne’s life will be held at 2 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 4 at Westminster Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Dr. Andrew M. Lindahl officiating.

Clasen-Jordan Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.