Edith E. Dawdy, 101, of Sheridan, died Monday, Jan. 26, 2009, at her home.

Services will be in the summer. Arrangements are with Champion Ferries Funeral Home.

Born Dec. 24, 1907, in Lamar, Colo., to Harry and Estelle (Hughes) Robinson, she came to Sheridan in 1910 and graduated from Sheridan High School in 1925.

She worked as a reader for the Sheridan Journal newspaper.

She married Paul Dawdy in 1928 and handled the bookkeeping for their Conoco station.

She was active in the community volunteering for the Red Cross during World War II and helping to organize All American Indian Days and the Miss Indian American Foundation. She also volunteered at the Chamber of Commerce, Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library Wyoming Room, Community Chest, Nile Youth Center Board, PTA and Hospital Auxiliary. She continued to volunteer well into her 90s.

Daughters of the American Revolution honored Mrs. Dawdy with the Women in American History certificate.

She enjoyed traveling around the United States and also visited Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar.

She also enjoyed hunting and fishing in the Big Horn Mountains and was an active and longtime member of First Christian Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1971 and a daughter, Janet Schaffer.

Survivors include three daughters, Marylin Miller of Colbert, Okla., Carol Gelardi of Magnolia, Texas, and Marie Wright-Byrum of Sheridan; 32 grand-, great-grand- and great-great-grandchildren.

Memorials may benefit Hospice of the Big Horns, 1401 W. Fifth St., Sheridan, WY 82801 or Lifelink, Box 2095, Sheridan.

The Sheridan Press - January 28, 2009.