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Ancestors and Descendants of
Michael Hammes, Jr & Margaretha Hammen
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 1940 - 2004 (64 years)
Has 73 ancestors and 16 descendants in this family tree.
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| Name |
Dorothy Mae Heuberger |
| Birth |
17 May 1940 |
Salem, Marion County, Oregon  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
29 Aug 2004 |
Milwaukie, Clacamas County, Oregon |
| Burial |
2 Sep 2004 |
Plot Section GG Site 587, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon |
| Person ID |
I310 |
Peter and Anna |
| Last Modified |
14 Aug 2015 |
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| Notes |
- Dorothy Mae Heuberger
OBITUARY
Dorothy Mae Pietrok
A Mass of Christian burial will be at noon Thursday, Sept. 2, 2004, in St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Milwaukie for Dorothy Mae Pietrok, who died Aug. 29 at age 64.
Dorothy Mae Heuberger was born May 17, 1940, in Salem. She moved about 1967 to Milwaukie, where she ran a children's day care out of her home. A member of the church, she played piano and organ for its choir. She also played piano and organ for St. Peter Catholic Church in Portland. In 1959, she married Charles.
Survivors include her husband; sons, Mark, Ted, Scott, Neil and David; daughter, Mary Edwards; sister, Arlene Pekkola; brothers, Howard Heuberger, Melvin Heuberger and Paul Heuberger; and eight grandchildren.
Remembrances to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Arrangements by Stehn's Milwaukie.
SOURCE: The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Wednesday, September 1, 2004
- LIFE STORIES
DOROTHY PIETROK WAS FAMOUS FOR CARING
“The Milwaukie woman touched many lives with her kindness, day-care center and greeting cards”
There were at least 1,000 people at Dorothy Mae Pietrok’s service. People filled the pews and crammed along the sides and in the back of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church. The ushers ran out of funeral cards; there were 12 priests and the bishop at the altar with three priests sitting in the congregation.
Dorothy wasn’t rich or famous or prominent in the worldly sense. In fact, many would define her as “just a homemaker” although she ran a day-care center and was a musician. But her death touched the hearts of more people than many of greater status.
When the Rev. Todd Molinari asked whether anybody had received a card or a plate of cookies from Dorothy almost everybody in the church raised a hand.
LOVED SENDING CARDS
Dorothy loved sending cards to people. She’d buy hundred at a time and rolls of stamps. She sent birthday cards to all the children in her day care, even when they were in their 30s. She sent anniversary cards to all her friends and neighbors, condolence cards on anniversaries of deaths, and congratulatory cards for every imaginable triumph.
When cards weren’t enough, Dorothy sent food. Anybody who needed cheering up received a plate of cookies. Neighbors who were sick or having problems received meals. When she watched her grandchildren, she invariably sent a bag of snacks to work with the parent and had a meal for them to take home when they returned. She took milk every week to the Salvation Army Greenhouse and food to Elizabeth House.
No one can figure out where she got all her energy. She was extraordinarily organized; her house was meticulous, even though she ran a day care in it for 37 years. She played piano and organ at her church, St. John the Baptist in Milwaukie, and for Saturday night mass at St. Peter Catholic Church. She played for weddings and funerals.
The money she made was tucked away here and there and was brought out to pay for cards or to send to charities or to people who needed a little help. Her family is just learning about many people she helped through the years.
DAILY WALKS
Dorothy walked two miles every evening rain or shine, with her friend and neighbor Donna Harland. They talked over life as they walked, and Dorothy called it her psychotherapy. Then, after dinner, she went out again to walk as she said her rosary.
Every year since she was diagnose with breast cancer in 1998, she walked for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. She thought she had the cancer licked, but it came back last year, and Dorothy died August 29, 2004.
She was born in Salem, met Charles Pietrok at a high school dance and, after a year at Marylhurst, married him when she was 19, they lived a year in Struttgart, Germany, and moved in 1967 to a house in Milwaukie in a close-knit cul-de-sac of neighbors. She didn’t have children for three years and was considering adoption when she became pregnant. She then had five children in six years, then a 10 year break before she had her sixth child arrived as little dividend.
Dorothy ran a tight ship. All her children earned half their tuition at LaSalle High School by working summers at a nearby farm.
She was a tiny woman, always stayed thin and always kept her naturally dark hair, although she grew a distinctive white streak. She collected Hummel figurines. One of her favorite foods was fried oysters, which she never prepared because she was the only one in the family who liked them. But she always ordered them at the Ringside Restaurant.
She was determined to live, but recently asked a friend, “How do you know when to give up?” Her friend didn’t have an answer.
Dorothy was planning to walk again this Sunday in the Race for the Cure. Instead her name will be on
any, many pink “in memoriam” tags, worn by other walkers and runners who are participating in her spirit,
SOURCE: The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Tuesday, September 14, 2004
- DOROTHY MAE PIETROK
BORN: Dorothy Mae Heuberger, May 17, 1940, in Salem
DIED: Aug 29, 2004, in Milwaukie
SURVIVORS: Husband, Charles; daughter, Mary Edwards; sons, Mark, Ted, Scott, Neil, and David; sister, Arlene Pekkola; brothers, Howard Heuberger, Melvin Heuberger and Paul Heuberger; and eight grandchildren.
REMEMBRANCES: LaSalle High School, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation or St. John the Baptist Catholic Church.
SOURCE: The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Tuesday, September 14, 2004
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