The Dolmars

Dorothy Dolmar — 11/28/1920 to 6/14/2009

My grandmother died last week. She’d been dealing with Alzheimer’s disease for years. At the end she passed peacefully. When my grandfather died, I gave a eulogy. Since that time the computer that I wrote that eulogy has been retired, I grabbed the hard drive and it’s sitting in my basement. I keep thinking one of these days I’ll put in a case so that I can get some of the data off, but it hasn’t happened.

I don’t want grandma’s eulogy to go the same way. So I’m taking a different tact with it. I’m posting it. It’ll be indexed and archived by people with really serious data backup plans. (I’m looking at you Internet Archive and Google).  It’ll be preserved in HTML which means that decades from now, I’ll still be able open it and parse it without needing to resort to any software more fancy than a browser or text editor. And if someone goes looking for my grandma on the internet, well her name isn’t that common so I suspect it’ll be found. I’m hoping it’s a good way to give her memory a bit more life, and she certainly deserves that.

So without further ado, here’s the text of the eulogy that I spoke at my grandmother’s funeral last Friday.

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• Dorothy Dolmar — 11/28/1920 to 6/14/2009 — school teacher, mother and grandmother. Travel safely and say “Hi” to grandpa. #

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