Dorothy Gorman Dorsey Dwyer, 83, died Sept. 19, 2016. She was the daughter of the late William Basil Gorman and Esther Kinsley Gorman, of New York. After her mother died and her father remarried Patricia McGowan, she regained a mom, and two new siblings were born.

She graduated from Rye High School where she was elected Queen of the Schmoos, then from Trinity University in Washington, D.C., where she played on the field hockey team. After graduation, she worked in the water department for the city of Rye. Introduced on a blind date, she married Dr. James T. Dorsey, with whom she raised a passel of ornery kids in Emmaus.

She was an exemplary mom and dynamic volunteer throughout her life, as Scout leader, librarian, PTA mom, church lector, Fall Fest and ADA volunteer at church and president of the Women’s Auxiliary to the Lehigh County Medical Society. Always ready for an MS walk, or available for a round of Meals-on-Wheels, she also loved her bridge-playing friends, her book club cohorts and her First Wives co-conspirators.

She led the way on many fronts--recycling, reading, blazing her own trails through the sky as a Piper Cherokee pilot.

She was an avid Catholic and often brought a priest along on vacations so she wouldn’t miss Mass.

A knitting guru who could talk you through a complex pattern, she traveled primarily by station wagon, with the friendliest disposition in all of America. “Hey, Gram!” was the constant cry from her ten grandchildren, and so it was written on her license plate.

She trekked the wilds of the Colorado Rockies and down in the sands along Sarasota Bay for college graduations, never missing a milestone without a visit, card or a call. A packrat--whether by birth or fortune--she also faithfully passed the gene to everyone of her kids, who hope, one day, to recover.

She faced down sudden blindness in one eye and other weird MS symptoms, and emerged with a smile, even though it meant she could no longer pilot. She was even able to catch John Dwyer, a gentle, nimble man whom she married several years after the sudden death of her first husband in 1995.

She is survived by her husband; sisters, Joan Carey; Barbara Aylward; Patricia and her husband Jock Richardson; brother, Peter Gorman and his wife Linda; sister-in-law, Betty Jane Gorman; children, Jim and Lucia Dorsey; Ann and Kevin O’Brien; Dan and Colleen Dorsey; Susan and Rick Kahr; and Bob and Freddy Dorsey; Bill, Kathy and Barbara Dwyer; grandchildren, James, Liam, Elena, Erin, Caitlin, Kevin, David, Jonathan, Caitlin, Mike and his wife Erika, Jason and his wife Audra, Alyssa, Chet, Candace and her husband David MacDougall; great-grandchildren, Hailey and Ryan, Joshua and Sophia, Emily and Kaelyn; 26 nieces and nephews and a multitude of other relatives and dear friends.

Contributions may be made to Meals on Wheels, 4234 Dorney Park Road, Allentown, 18104 or to the National M.S. Society, 30 S. 7th St., Suite 800, Philadelphia, 19103.

Arrangements were made by the Bachman, Kulik & Reinsmith Funeral Home, Emmaus.