Mary Youngblood Dooley, 76, of Gettysburg and originally from Montrose, Pennsylvania, passed away on Monday, April 5. She was the daughter of the late Jake and Jerry Youngblood and was born on Oct. 18, 1944, in Binghamton, New York.
Mary was a 1966 graduate of West Chester University and taught in both Maryland and Pennsylvania. She finished her teaching career as an English as a Second Language teacher for the Lincoln Intermediate Unit. When summarizing her teaching career, she often said, âI was a teacher for 33 years and never had a boring day.â
Mary is survived by her daughter, Molly Wiles and son-in-law, Steve, and son, Dan Dooley. She is also survived by her grandchildren, Sarah, Jake, and AJ Wiles. She was predeceased in 2013 by her husband of 47 years, Jim Dooley, who was a popular area basketball coach. They met painting backboards on a basketball court at a summer camp in the Adirondack Mountains. From that summer romance, came an interesting life of being marri