On Nov. 1, shortly after 2 a.m., Meredith Dallas, surrounded by family, died peacefully at the Friends Care Center, where he had been living for the past year.
The third child and second son of a factory foreman, Meredith Eugene Dallas, or Dal, as his friends and colleagues affectionately called him, was born on Dec. 3, 1916, in Detroit, Mich., to William and Ethel Dallas who would go on to have six children. When his older brother died at the age nine, the 6-year-old Meredith became the vessel of his father’s ambition that his oldest son grow up to be a Methodist minister. This ambition dovetailed nicely with the influence Detroit’s Central Methodist Church had on the young Meredith. Of particular influence were people of social conscience and national renown, like educator and civil rights leader Mary Bethune, who would on occasion speak to the congregation. Through the church, Meredith was active in the Young People’s League, an organization that examined issues of race a
By YS News Staff
After 100 years of full and fruitful life as a beloved matriarch and faithful friend, Dorothy Wiletta (Perry) Boyce departed this life on Feb. 14, 2021.
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Roger “Lee” Johnston, longtime resident of Yellow Springs, died Feb. 3, 2021, at Friends Care Center. He was 87.
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Donna Carol Cottrell died Feb. 4, 2021, at the age of 84. She was born in Quincy, Ill., on Sept. 25, 1936, to Maxine and Carl Cottrell.
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Dan (né Joseph Daniel) Carrigan, 66, died suddenly and unexpectedly at home on the evening of Jan. 30, 2021.
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Donna Carol Cottrell died Feb. 4, 2021, at the age of 84. She was born in Quincy, Ill., on Sept. 25, 1936, to Maxine and Carl Cottrell.
Donna is remembered as the beloved of James Parker, with whom she brought four children into the world. Donna and Jim moved from the Fairborn, Ohio, area to Yellow Springs in 1974 so that their kids could continue their education at Antioch School.
They quickly came to embrace the village, where Donna worked for the Chamber of Commerce in helping to make the annual sidewalk sale into what we know now as the biannual Street Fair. She served on various boards and committees, including the Yellow Springs School Board and a fundraising committee for the Friends Care Center. In later years, she volunteered at the YS Senior Center.