Melodye A. Dolan
October 3, 1946 ~ January 28, 2013
Dolan, Melodye Dee Dee, age 66, of Oak Grove passed away on Monday, January 28, 2013. She is preceded in death by her parents and her infant daughter, Tiffany. Dee Dee is survived by her husband, Jim; her son Troy Gillette and his children Adam, Aaron and Devin; her son Shane Gillette; her daughter Kirsten (Kevin) Drewlow and their daughter Daycie; her daughter Kelly (Darin) Christofferson and their children Elizabeth and Emma; two great-grandchildren; her sister Pam (Blair) Malinski; and her brother Denny (Dagmar) Ondrachek. A Gathering of Family and Friends will be held at Roberts Family Funeral Home from 1-3 PM on Friday, February 1st with a Memorial Service at 3 PM.
Dear Jim, and Family! Our sympathy to you and your loved ones, in the loss of your Dear Wife and Mother! You are in our thoughts and prayers today as you celebrate her life and recall wonderful memories, with family and friends! With Love from Uncle Bob and Aunt Janice.
Jim. My heart goes out to you in the loss of your wife DeeDee. She was a very outgoing and nice gal and I know you will miss her a lot. I can’t be there in person but know that my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Much Love, Aunt Sue
Dear Cousin Jim,
Thoughts are with you on the loss of your Wife and Best Friend DeeDee.
You and I haven’t stayed in touch much over our past adult years, although your mom Dear Aunt Lois, while helping me at the shoe store kept me informed of You and DeeDee visititing her in Austin, how much fun you were to be with, how compatable devoted You and DeeDee were to each other, and sharing the Who,What, Where and Why of Your Families events and growing.
I appreciated DeeDee’s correspondence and willingness to help me with The Dolan Family Ancestry, and with great saddnes I must include this event into our Families History.
TO remember is to LOVE, and CELEBRATE, to LAUGH, and CRY, to CONNECT, and SHARE…
With Sympathy, and Prayers to You and Your Families,
Your Cousin,
Bob and Carol Weis
To Dee’s Family – I am so saddened to hear of your loss. Dee and I worked for SOO/CP. She and I had some great laughs together. I was in marketing at the time. My favorite memory of Dee was when she baked chocolate chip cookies for one of the customers she was talking with much of the time…that was just how Dee was…funny, kind and a hard worker. The last 15 years of my RR career, I didn’t have much contact with Dee as I had moved on to a regional railroad but I will never forget her in my RR family of friends. You were lucky to have her in your lives…
That was So amazing Troy, thank you. I was there until 1pm. I am so glad you were there with her. She loved you so much. She is at peace, and we must, through our grief, rejoice in her place in her new home with Our Father. Thank you for sharing.
last night i lost one of the most important person in my life and that was my mother. while i was there she was unable to open her eyes like she was in a coma like state, she could hear me and scene me, she had lymph node cancer she did do some of the chemo and decided that she did not want to go that way, she was a tough cookie. the Dr had her on some strong medication that would help her through all this. on New Years Eve i spend most of my day and night with her and which was one of the better new years i have had in years.
On Jan 28th 8:20 she opened her eyes and i jumped up and said the my step father Jim her eyes are open as we stood there she looks at us and squeezed my hand i asked to say hello to my sister Tiffany that past when she was 8 months old and that we love her and miss her. Jim and I continue to tell her that we love her. at that moment when she was squeezing my hand i could see that she was trying to talk nothing came out but she didn’t need say anything her eyes said EVERYTHING they said I LOVE and I will Miss you until you come to see me again. at that moment she was on her last few breaths at 8:30 pm Jim Looked at me and said i think this is it. I couldn’t hold it in any more the tears poured out and i cried and i cried i grabbed her and kissed her she was taking her last breath.
i didn’t want to let her go how do you let go of someone you love so much, she is in a better place and i love her for it. at that time i felt like the worse thing happened to me but she is in a better place and at peace.
I lost my Best Friend she was everything to me she taught me so much my whole life and i love her for that also.
P.S. I love you Mom and will never forget.
Dee Dee, there are so many memories, I can not count. You have been the sister I never had and the sister I always wanted. I will carry you and all our time together in my heart from now until. We are together again in Gods kingdom, but I will miss you every day until then. I love you Sis.
Love you lots Dee Dee! Glad you are in peace!
and I forgot sweet Devin her grandson & Olivia whom she also loved, along with Kari, who was loved by Dee Dee and who loved Dee Dee like a 2nd mom, and called her mom. Sorry for all this, but this is what real grief does! You just can’t think of everyone & everything. Again my love & sweet slumber to you Dee Dee.
sorry Troy for not getting the Y in your name!
My dear sweet Dee Dee. I am so sorry we did not get our Olive Garden take out dinner. I love you and always have. I am just sorry that we lost track of each other for so long. Jim, you were an incredible loving husband to her, and I know your days to come will be lonely. Hang in there. The pain will fade, but the memories will NEVER fade. She loved your girls & the Grandkids so much, I know she was hoping to move closer to them. My love to your entire family and to Tro, Shane, Adam, Arron, and precious Sophie who will arrive in a couple months.
I was so surprised to see that DeeDee had passed. We were neighbors in BP