Dolores Orma Mayer Tolhurst
Dolores Orma Mayer Tolhurst
March 20 1928 - November 1, 2022
In the early morning hours of November 1, 2022 (All Saints Day) Dolores left this life here for the life to come. Dolores was born March 20, 1928 to Charles Edward and Irma Valeria Saxon Mayer in Cleveland, Ohio. Her early years were spent in the Collinwood area, until her family moved out to Wickliffe where she graduated from High School in 1948, as Salutatorian of her class.
After graduation Dolores entered the field of cosmetology. She owned several Beauty Solons first in the downtown area. Here she met and interviewed her future husband Robert for a position at her shop. She married Robert in April of 1955. A few years later they opened Lakeland Beauty Solon on 200th Street in Euclid. She and her husband would go on to own another solon and a flower shop until they retired in 1996. Always creative she entered and won several competitions in cosmetology, while single and while married to Robert, throughout Ohio and the northeast area.
In retirement she and Robert were active in their church and other community groups. They traveled together. She enjoyed reading and kept herself busy with her home and sewing, she had many projects and enjoyed teaching “Stitch and Sew” in Mentor. She was always a student, she read everything given to her, including all medical information. On one stay in the hospital the nurses told us of her inquiring mind and the technical questions she posed to them after reading every instruction and piece of information they gave her. “If every patient were like her our job would be much easier.” Dolores was mentally sharp until the very end of her life.
The family (and Dolores) would like to thank Linda Walkowski and Judith Tolhurst for their work with Dolores. They put their lives on hold to provide all the extra loving care given to Dolores these last 5 months. Thank you both! To Crossroads Hospice nurses and aids for their wise and tender care, Thank you! We wish to express our deepest appreciation to Blessing Cremation Services for handling the arrangements, Thank you! Finally, to all of you who took the time to visit with Dolores either in person or by phone, those visits meant a lot to her. Thank you!
A memorial service, at her request, will be held on Saturday November 26, 2022 at 2:00 P.M. It will be held at The Salvation Army Cleveland Temple Corps located at 17625 Grove Wood Ave. Cleveland, Ohio 44119, [(216) 692-1388]. There will be a time of visitation from Noon until the time of the service.
Dolores and Robert will be interned at the Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery on Monday November 28, 2022 (at 2:00 pm), {with full Military rites for Robert} you are invited to attend if you are able.