Dorothy McCleery Redding

Redding Dorothy McCleery Redding was born on May 14, 1927 in Cleveland, Ohio to Dr. John Maxwell McCleery and Pearl Mae Roe McCleery. She graduated from Muskingum in 1948. She also followed her mother’s lead and went to Biblical Seminary in New York, and graduated with a Masters in Christian Education from Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary in 1951. She married her childhood sweetheart, World War II veteran Ensign David Asbury Redding on June 16, 1951, and started with him their family: Marion Telford, John Maxwell (Shari), David Mitchell (Bobbie), and Mark McCleery (Sarah), Sandy McIntosh (Fred) and, Rob Greene (Pam), Chris Way (Pam) and Ashley, and Jennie Tran. She enjoyed her grandchildren, SPC. Alexei Lizanich, USAR, Katrina Hayes (Ryan), Danielle Dean, Alicia Redding Shipe (and great-granddaughter, Ava Lyn Grace), Ian and Cameron Redding, Hannah, Kate and David Redding, Mary, Nancy, and Don McIntosh, Christiana and David Greene, and Ashley Way.It only takes her laughter like her singing to bring her back to mind. Her grieving husband attempted a closing tribute his last morning at Liberty Barn Church: You Taught Me How to Dance (with apologies to “Miss Potter”) It’s a painful triumph for My Dee to get here Sundays, anymore, Tied to a chair and perched on wheels; Why, she used to teach the Marines how to swim, And I had a showpiece jitterbug To teach me how to dance. You caught me, dear, with your sky blue eyes; And with your beguiling arms around me, You made a sailor brainless. So, I’m still ready to dance with you forever. How time flies! It only seems like yesterday This also applies to the nearly 30 years all of you took To show me how to let down my hair and Dance with Old Liberty. But I won’t forget that night My partner got the steps across to me, till all of you -- And I know it must have seemed forever -- Finally encircled a wooden-legged preacher Who only said he loved you till You taught him how to dance In here. (October 14, 2007) Come Celebrate Dee’s Life and Life to Come with us at Liberty Barn Church, on April 20, 2008 at 2 o’clock p.m. 7080 Olentangy River Rd. , Delaware, OH 43015. Gifts in her memory may be given to the Community Health Access Project, Attn: Dan Wertenberger, Ocie Hill Neighborhood Ctr, 523 Park Ave E., Mansfield, OH 44905 or Liberty Church to finish the Carriage House. (FURTHER INFORMATION AND COMMENTS AT www.davidredding.com.) Arrangements by Rutherford-Corbin Funeral Home, 515 High Street, Worthington, Ohio 43085. Condolences to www.rutherfordfuneralhome.com

Dorothy McCleery Redding

April 7, 2008