SEATTLE, Wash. — Dolores (Dee Dee) Schwartz passed away at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle on March 8, 2022. She was 85.
Dee Dee was born in Hartford, Kentucky, in 1936, graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1958 and worked in Bandung, Java, Indonesia, as an administrator for a team of U.S. professors at a technology institute from 1959-1961.
She moved to San Francisco, California, in 1962 where she met Allen Schwartz. They married in 1965. Their first son was born in 1968 and then moved to Mill Valley, California, where they had their second son in 1970. She lost her husband in 1993. Dee Dee worked a variety of administrative jobs over the course of her career and retired in 2013. She moved to Seattle, Washington in March 2021 to be close to her family.
She is survived by her two sons, two daughters-in-law, and four grandchildren.
Donations can be made in her name to the Southern Poverty Law Center.