SANTA BARBARA – Dorothy Elizabeth Nutting Ambrose passed away peacefully on May 31, 2019 in Santa Barbara, California. She was 97 years old.

Dorothy was born on August 8, 1921 in Hartland, Vermont on the farm that had been inher mother's family since Moses Webster returned from fighting in the Revolutionary War. She and her parents, George Edwin Nutting and Elizabeth Webster Nutting, settled in Woodstock, Vermont, where she graduated from high school in 1940. She studied for her RN degree at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover, New Hampshire, graduating in 1943.

On February 5, 1944, she married Alfred Homer Ambrose of Woodstock. Following his induction into the U.S. Navy during World War II, she was able to put her nursing training to good use in hospitals near his duty stations in Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi, Corpus Christi, Texas, and Jacksonville, Florida.

After the war, Dot and Al returned to Woodstock to begin raising their family. Once her children came along, the focus of her life was creating a beautiful and loving home for her family, which she achieved abundantly. While her husband built a successful career as a mechanical engineer with IBM Corporation in Vestal, New York and Huntsville, Alabama, ultimately working on the Instrument Unit for the massive Saturn V moon rockets, she made sure that her children and grandchildren were diligent and successful in school, that her church was regularly supplied with beautiful flower arrangements from her garden, and that she and Al could relax with friends over a bridge table.

Alfred, her dear husband of 65 years, died on Memorial Day, 2009. She was also preceded in death by her sister Marjorie Jane Nutting Cone and husband R.Adm. Warren Mason Cone. She is survived by: her two children, Robert Paul Ambrose (Elaine Elizabeth Hoffman Ambrose) of Wayzata, Minnesota and Rebecca Jane Ambrose Backer (Dr. Gary Wayne Backer) of Santa Barbara, California; her five grandchildren, John Webster Ambrose (Leah Herling Ambrose) of New Brighton, Minnesota; William Shepard Ambrose of Flagstaff, Arizona; Jennifer Elizabeth Backer Kosek, M.D. (Vincent Kosek) of Santa Barbara, California; Matthew Wayne Backer, M.D. of Santa Barbara, California; and Kyle Nathan Backer, M.D. (Kerri Marie Backer) of San Diego, California; her four great grandchildren, Alfred August Ambrose, Dane McKelvy Kosek, Audrey Elizabeth Kosek, and Svea Marie Backer; her two sisters-in-

law, Nancy Ambrose Swanson of Randolph, Vermont and Lucille Carpenter Tancreti of Hartland, Vermont; and many nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

A memorial service and celebration of Dorothy's life will be held at the ProsperCemetery, Woodstock, Vermont at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, August 4, 2019. The service will be led by Rev. Lucia Anne Jackson of the First Congregational Church, Hartland, Vermont. A reception for family and friends will be held immediately following the service at the Prosper Community House on Route 12. Memorials are suggested to the Prosper Community House, c/o Martha Leonard, Treasurer, P.O. Box 54, Woodstock, VT 05091.