Dolores C. Kyle

Dolores Christina Kyle

OCEAN VIEW, Del. — Dolores Christina Kyle (nee George), age 91, of Ocean View, Del. and formerly of Ocean City and Baltimore, went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2014.

She was born on May 29, 1923, the first child of Joseph and Bertha George. She attended grammar school and high school in the Baltimore area. As a young adult, she did bookkeeping for her father’s ice business before taking a clerical position at Bethlehem Steel Corporation. She also enjoyed duckpin bowling, a skill that she perfected becoming a Major League Bowler, bowling in sponsored tournaments all over the Mid–Atlantic area.

Paired first with him in a local “mixed doubles” bowling tournament, she met and then married another major league bowler Raymond Kyle in 1943. She and Ray gave birth to one child, Raymond Donald, in March of 1947. After his birth and caring for her invalid mother until her passing, she then took an accounting position at Commercial Credit Corporation located in Baltimore City. She worked 31 years for Commercial Credit retiring in 1985.

She and her husband then sold their house in Baltimore and moved to Ocean City where she lived until moving in with her son in 2011. In Ocean City, she enjoyed line dancing and playing cards – all kinds of card games. She was a member of St. Luke’s Church and the Knights of Columbus Ladies Auxiliary. She became a widow in 1992 but still lived in Ocean City enjoying the friendship of women from her church as well as her neighbors.

At 88 and no longer able to live alone, she moved in with her son and daughter-in-law in Ocean View, Del., and lived with them until her death from congestive heart failure. Her father, mother, and her only brother, Joseph, predeceased her.

She is survived by her one son, Raymond Donald Kyle and his wife Lynne; a sister-in-law, Evelyn George of Baltimore; as well as many loving nieces.

A Celebration of her life and a Mass of Christian Burial was held at St. Luke’s Catholic Church in Ocean City, on Monday Dec. 29. Family and friends gathered one hour before Mass at St. Luke’s to share memories. A private interment ceremony followed on Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014 at Holy Cross Cemetery in Baltimore.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions in her name be made to the Little Sisters of the Poor, 185 Salem Church Rd., Newark, Del. 19713.

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