Dorotha Marie Binkley Sheets of Grace Village Retirement Community, Winona Lake, passed away at 8:50 a.m. Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, at Grace Village Health Care at the age of 102.
She was born May 1, 1916, in Bourbon, to James Arthur Hershberger and Aurel Ethel McCuen Hershberger. In 1936 she was married to Victor Binkley; he died in 1974. Dorotha re-married in 1994 to William Lee Sheets; he passed away in 2008.
Dorotha was a resident of Kosciusko County for the past 81 years, and she had worked for 22 years in the machine shop at DePuy in Warsaw.
She was a member of Warsaw Community Grace Brethren Church.
Dorotha lived a long and full life, she enjoyed sewing, but most of all she loved her family.
She will be lovingly remembered by her son, Curtis (Judy) Binkley, Florida; daughter, Sheila Poe, Warsaw; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, two husbands, two brothers and two sisters.
Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon Monday, Oct. 22, at Redpath-Fruth Funeral Home, 225 Argonne Road, Warsaw. Her funeral service will follow at noon, officiated by Pastor Andy Gavin.
Burial will follow with a graveside service at Stony Point Cemetery, Atwood.
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Memorials to Warsaw Christian School, 909 S. Buffalo St., Warsaw, IN 46580.
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