Dorothy Hebertson

Dorothy Marie Foltz Hebertson was born July 26, 1924 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri. She “Skipped Away” to find the love of her life Keith Madsen Hebertson on the 3rd of April 2014. She found him along with “those people who are here to get me”.
Devoted wife and mother of 5 children: Suzanne (Gary)Lemmons, Mike (Molly)Hebertson, Jane (Gary)Quincy, Alan (Dieter Sellmair)Hebertson, and Marsha (Kent)Bradford. Grandmother of 14, Great-grandmother to 38. She was preceded in death by her husband Keith, her daughter Marsha, her granddaughter Allison, her brother Jimmy, and her parents James Elmer and Glessnor Lorene Foltz.
At the age of two she moved with her family to the town of Kilgore in East Texas, where her father and his brothers had procured work in the newly discovered oil fields. There she graduated from high school and completed her schooling at Kilgore Junior College.
She met Keith while he was on leave with a friend from Officers Candidate School in 1942. Keith spoke at the commencement exercises and asked his friend who the “dizzy blond” was. They dated and started a correspondence that lasted throughout WWII while Keith served in Patton’s Third Army as a forward observer in the 71st Field Artillery. They were married on the 4th of December 1945 in Kilgore, Texas.
Dorothy was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, on 21 November 1951 while the family was living in Denver Colorado. The Hebertson family Keith, Dorothy, Suzie, Mike, and Jane were sealed as a family on the 17th of October 1952 when Jane was only 3 months old. They moved to Murray, Utah in 1953 where Alan and Marsha were born in 1957 and 1958 respectively. They lived there until they were relocated to Wheat Ridge Colorado in 1961.
In 1969 the family moved to Holladay, Utah, the place Dorothy always felt was more like home than anywhere. It was during this time that she served for 9 years writing curriculum for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She served three times as President of the Relief Society for the wards where she lived.
In 1988 Keith and Dorothy began wintering in St. George, Utah, and settled there permanently two years later. She was instrumental in organizing her friends and family as traveling companions, and she did love to travel. Europe, Australia, Alaska, Panama Canal, Hawaii, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Greece, Italy, Spain, England and Ireland.
Dorothy was a 52 year survivor of cancer! In 1962 she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and during the next 4 years she underwent two radical mastectomies and first-generation chemo- and radiation therapies. Her mother Glessie, moved in with the family and assisted in duties of mother until her passing in 1987. In the last two years Dorothy witnessed breast cancer claim the lives of her granddaughter Allison in September of 2012, and her daughter Marsha in March of 2013.
She was brave, and endured faithfully to the very end.
A viewing will be held Thursday April 10 6-8 PM and Memorial Services will be held at Holladay Cottonwood Mortuary 4670 South Highland Drive, at 2:00 PM Friday April 11. A viewing will be held from 1:00-1:45 prior to the funeral services. Condolences can be shared with the family at www.holladaycottonwoodmortuary.com