Dorothy Ruth Lindenmayer Chiles
August 31, 1924 -- August 2, 2001
Dorothy Ruth Lindenmayer
Most Beautiful
Central High School
Memphis, Tennessee
A Class Beauty . . . inside and out
A Loving Wife
A Grieving Widow
At twenty-five, she was a widow with two small children
July 28, 1949
A Devoted Mother
A Respected Teacher
Messick High School Memphis, Tennessee
A Protective Sister
Dorothy Chiles with her "baby brother", Bill Lindenmayer, and then in her youth with both brothers, Dave and Bill.
A Loyal Friend
(Mom with our cousin, Lawton Chiles,
on his Inauguration as Governor of Florida.)
(Mom in front of our favorite restaurant, the Sandbar,
located on Anna Maria Beach in Florida.)
A Precious and Caring Grandmother
A sweet memory . . . My Mother with all her grandchildren:
My dog for twelve years, Muffin, loved my mother just as much as the "other" grandkids!
Each Grandchild was dear to her heart. Haley, Robin, and Annaliese.
Mother meets Andrew Littleton, the boyfriend (and future husband) of her oldest Granddaughter, Haley Imholz
After her stroke, while left in a state of child-like dementia,
she still remained happy around her grandchildren.
Her dog, Dottie, remained by her side.
And we all loved her so much . . . even until the end.
August 2, 2001
Buried next to her husband at Arlington National Cemetery, August 11, 2001
Proverbs. 31:28
Click on the above picture to read the
written by Lt James Olin Chiles to his wife, Dorothy,
while he was on the Navy Carrier,
the USS Midway .
Click on the above picture to read the Article:
"Love That is Tender Leaves a
Strong Message in Room 844"
Peabody Hotel, Memphis, Tennessee
This article was printed in the Memphis Press-Scimitar,
on December 22, 1950,
on what would have been
Jim and Dorothy Chiles' Fifth Wedding Anniversary.
