Dorothy Lee Bossard was born March 5, 1933 to Harold Bernice and Mary Ruth Lee Smith at their home in Clarksville, Arkansas. Preceded in death by her parents, and siblings Harold Thomas Smith and Martha Ann Shahan. Survived by her husband of 66 years Randall Kent Bossard, and sons Dr. Robert Lee Bossard, entomologist, and Dr. John Arthur Bossard, aerospace engineer, his wife Carla Schindler Bossard, their sons, Dominic Igor Bossard, Carl Andrey Bossard, and Navy officer Everett Igor Bossard, and five great- grandchildren.

Dorothy enjoyed an idyllic childhood, and earned a B.A. at the College of the Ozarks, and a M.Ed. at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She was a teacher in Carlisle, Arkansas and Tulsa, Oklahoma, and taught typing, shorthand, English, math, and girls P.E., among other subjects.

She was active throughout her life in the Methodist Church, and volunteered in public schools, supporting Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, DeMolay and Job's Daughters, United Methodist Women and Ruth Circle, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, the Twickenham Doll Club, and P.E.O.

She was a southern belle, a homemaker in Colorado, Utah, and Alabama, and a superb cook, with wide- ranging interests including being an avid reader of travel adventures, mysteries, and biography, maintaining a voluminous correspondence. She enjoyed a good laugh, "laugh about it and go on". She was an accomplished artist and watercolorist, played the piano and sang, enjoyed country music, was "Dr. Mom" to the family, with knowledge in family history, fashion design, table place settings, flower arranging, miniatures, interior design, antiques, earthquakes and volcanology, gems and minerals, football (Go Hogs!).

Dorothy had a sharp mind and incredible memory and kept track of all birthdays and anniversaries of family and friends. She traveled extensively during her life to Canada (Banff), Mexico (Mazatlán and Copper Canyon), the Mediterranean, Egypt, Panama Canal, China, and Paris. She passed away May 23, 2026.

She was the kindest person, and is dearly missed.

Donations may be made to the P.E.O. Sisterhood Foundation (peointernational.org), or Aldersgate United Methodist Church, Huntsville, Alabama.