Dorothy Dean Stump Waterman, MD, 86, of Waldoboro, passed away Nov. 24 at her home surrounded by her loving family. She was born April 12, 1923, in Kansas City, Mo., the youngest child of Alice May Shore Stump and Lee Calvin Stump. She graduated at age 15 from Paseo High School, the largest school in Kansas City, as salutatorian of her class. She then graduated from the University of Kansas School of Business in Lawrence, Kans., and worked as a secretary at Hallmark Cards while attending chemistry classes in night school.
She entered the University of Kansas Medical School, where she met and married Richard D. Waterman of North Haven, on Jan. 3, 1947. She received her M.D. degree in June of 1948. She interned at Trinity Lutheran Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., followed by a year of Pathology Residency at Eastern Maine General Hospital, Bangor.
The Waterman family settled first in Friendship, where their first two children were born, later moving to Waldoboro where their third child was born. They also lived in Waterloo, N.Y. for two years while Dr. Richard was in the USAF.
Dr. Waterman lived in Waldoboro for over 50 years where she reared her children, and augmented her husband’s medical practice, answering the phone and filling in if her husband was unavailable for office hours, when her children were small. Dr. Waterman led Girl Scout troops for many years and organized the first Cub Scout dens in Waldoboro. She was also involved with P.T.A. When her children were old enough, she added a medical practice of her own. She worked for years with school health programs and well baby clinics.
Dorothy was an avid reader, knitter, and typist with wide interests, who prized education and knowledge. She also loved music and played the piano. Above all else, she was a faithful and loving friend and devoted wife, mother and grandmother.
Dr. Dorothy was predeceased by her parents and brothers, Dr. James David Stump and Lee Kimball Stump.
Survivors include her husband, Richard D. Waterman, MD of Waldoboro; daughter, Anne W. Sienkewicz, PhD and husband Thomas J. Sienkewicz, PhD of Monmouth, Ill.; sons, Jack L. Waterman, MD and wife Deborah of Waldoboro, and Carl D. Waterman of Waldoboro; grandchildren, Marie Sienkewicz, DVM and husband Kyle Bond of Waconda, Ill., Julia Sienkewicz, PhD and husband Victor Martinez, PhD of Champaign, Ill., Richard O. Sienkewicz (law student at Marquette University School of Law in Milwaukee, Wis.), Timothy F. Waterman (masters student at Columbia University in New York) and Nicholas C. Waterman (undergraduate at the University of Maine at Farmington) of Waldoboro; and sisters-in-law, Mrs. Bernadette Worthy and husband George Worthy of Daly City, Cal., and Mrs. Lee K. Stump of Lindsborg, Kan.
Cremation has been accorded. A memorial service is being planned for a later time.
Arrangements are entrusted to Hall Funeral Home and Cremation Service, 949 Main St., Waldoboro.
