Obituary
It brings us great sadness to announce that Dorothea Clare Mehl passed away early Sunday morning, April 5, 2024, in Clearwater, Florida. She was 90 years old.
Dot was born in Brooklyn to Daniel J. Devanie and Anna C. Higgins. And there she lived on Park Place until her much-beloved Brooklyn Dodgers left the borough. Continuing on in Queens, she worked for the NYC Board of Education as an Administrative Assistant until her retirement in 1990.
She then started the next chapter in her life, snowbirding between Tarpon Springs, Florida and New York’s Catskill Mountains, eventually settling year-round in Florida.
Dot is survived by her son Stephen, daughter-in-law Carol, and her deeply adored granddaughter Sophia, as well as three nieces, Mary, Elizabeth, and Lori, and a nephew, Robert.
She will be greatly missed.
In lieu of flowers, the family has suggested memorials in her name to: The Calvary Hospital via –https://fund.calvaryhospital.org/
Service
715 East Orange Street, Tarpon Springs, FL 34689
If someone has Stephen's information, if you could pass it along to mom we would greatly appreciate it.
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May she rest in peace.
Dot in 1963 when I was 20
years old. It was my first job with the NYC Education Department.
She immediately took me under her wing and we became life long friends.
We traveled over the years to the Bahamas, Pennsylvania with my two young sons, Acadia National Park, Lake George, NY, and Saratoga
Raceway, and many trips to Rockaway Beach, NY,
and the Catskill mountains in NY. We were both former Brooklyn Dodgers fans and turned our allegiance to the Amazing NY Mets, when the Dodgers deserted Brooklyn. Last September, I spent a wonderful week with her in her Palm
Harbor home. I last spoke with her on April 28th.
She was the most dearest and faithful friend and my life was blessed with her for 61 years. My most
deepest and heartfelt sympathy to her son Stephen, his wife Carol and precious daughter , Sophia.
She was godmother to my
younger son, Erik Volz.
Last September,
Aunt Dot with siblings