Graveside services for Dinah Dicker O’Connor, 75, Lawrence, will be at 2 pm Wednesday at Oak Hill Cemetery. Dinah passed away Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018.
She was born Dec. 30, 1942, in Kansas City, Mo., the daughter of Alfred and Jeanne Metz Dicker. She married Larry O’Connor on Oct. 22, 1988, in Lawrence. He survives of the home. Other survivors include three children, Tonya Brenn, Tracy Rohr (Jeff), and Matt Sarna; nine grandchildren, Kaitlan, Scott, Tyler, Madison, Mason, MaKenna, Bailey, Maggie, and Dylan; great grandsons Brantley and Jaxson; and one brother, Jim Dicker (Jan).
Dinah attended Lawrence High School and graduated in 1960. After graduation she attended Baker University. As a stay-at-home mom, Dinah was very active with her children and as a 4-H leader, Sunday School teacher, Brownies, and Girl Scouts leader. After the children were grown, she worked at the District Attorney’s office for 24 years before retiring. She loved her dogs and all wild animals. Jacque, Yoda, Marlo, Miller, Oreo, and Duke were all her little loves. She was a member of the Community of Christ Church, past president of the Legal Secretaries of Lawrence, and Beta Sigma Phi.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to the Lawrence Humane Society or VNA/Hospice, in care of Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, 601 Indiana St., Lawrence, KS, 66044.
I am very saddened to hear of Dinah’s death. I first knew Dinah as my student at Lawrence Junior High. She was a beautiful person–inside and out. Her mother, Jeanne, was the school nurse when I went to Liberty Memorial High School and later a colleague. My deepest sympathy to her family. What a huge loss of a darling person.
Larry, I am so sorry. She was always so nice to me.
I know everyone’s lives she touched will miss her.
Larry, words cannot express my deepest sympathy for your loss of Dinah. Please know you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers
Dinah was a dear friend and classmate at LHS. She was beautiful, friendly, kind and had great personal style. I always loved catching up wit her st reunions. My sincere sympathy to her family and friends as she will be greatly missed. R.I.P. Dinah – you made the world a better place!
Sending our deepest sympathies to you and your family during this time of sorrow.
Larry, Matt, Tonya and Tracy,
I wish to extend my deepest sympathy to all of you for the loss of a great wife, mother, sister, aunt, grandmother and friend. Everyone who knew Dinah was blessed to have been touched by her beauty and her love of life. May each of you continue to be surrounded by her eternal love until we see her again. She was the BEST, and no one will be able to fill the void. I pray the days, and weeks ahead that are filled with sorrow are replaced with lots of loving memories.
God Bless,
Dinah and I became friends in grade school. She was one of the nicest people I knew. She had such a beautiful soul. Condolences to her family.
Heaven has a beautiful new angel now. What a wonderful soul and I’m so very lucky to have known her. Many prayers to Larry and all of the children, grandchildren, family and pets.
Such a lovely person…..Thinking of the family