March 12, 1925 - Aug. 26, 2007
CYRUS -- Dorothy Joan Lindor, 82, of Cyrus died Sunday at the West Wind Village in Morris.
The service will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at Pedersen Funeral Home in Morris. Burial will be at Scandia East Cemetery, near Cyrus.
Visitation will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
She was born March 12, 1925, in Westport Township, Pope County, to Neil and Nellie (Olson) Hopkins. She grew up in Villard and graduated from high school in 1943. She then attended teachers' normal training in Glenwood. She taught in rural Pope County schools including Westport, Sedan, Farwell and Cyrus.
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She married Kenneth Lindor on Aug. 28, 1948. They lived on the Lindor family farm. She raised her children and then she continued her education at the University of Minnesota in Morris. She taught in the Cyrus School System. She moved to the West Wind Village in Morris in 1997.
She was a member of the American Legion Ladies Auxiliary. She was a Sunday school teacher and active in the parent-teacher association. She was a past member of the Villard Methodist Church, First Lutheran Church in Kensington and Trinity Lutheran Church in Cyrus.
She is survived by her husband; sons: Dennis (and Dawn Bjorge) Lindor of Morris, Larry (and Heidi) Lindor of rural Cyrus; daughters: Jill (and Steve) Van Kempen of Morris, Kay (and Mark) Blauert of Montevideo, Jody (and Brent) Reimnitz of Woodbury; 10 grandchildren; brothers: Bruce Hopkins of Twentynine Palms, Calif., Charles Hopkins of Mission, Texas; and sisters: Mary Selnes of Stillwater, June Frederick of Villard, Margaret Hopkins of Marysville, Wash., and Patricia Veum-Smith of Minneapolis.
She was preceded in death by one grandson, one sister and one brother.
