She and her husband Eric Edwin Nylen, along with their children, Nancy, Barbara, David and Stephen, were long time residents of Bellflower, CA. Her beloved husband, Eric entered eternal life on December 1, 1996, and her precious daughter, Barbara joined him in Heaven on July 12, 2004.

She is survived by her daughter, Nancy Stevens and her husband, Calvin; sons, David and his wife Nancy, and Stephen and his wife Pamela Nylen; 14 grandchildren; 12 great grandchildren; a niece, Bonnie Lathrop and her husband Richard; a nephew, Albert Baxter; and her sisters in law, Elaine Palmer and her husband Monte, Dauris Slaughter and Georgia Porter.

The funeral service will be Monday, April 18, 2005 at 10:30 AM at the Cornerstone Christian Worship Center, 9001 Paramount Blvd., Downey, CA. She will be lovingly laid to rest by her beloved Eric at Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, CA following the service.

When you have a relationship with other humans, you experience them with your 5 senses. . .
You hear their voice
You touch them or they touch you
You feel their hand stroke your cheek
You talk to them
You smell their cologne as they pass by
Now that Dorothy passed from this world into Eternity you have to develop your 6th sense. You can no longer see her. You can no longer touch her or feel her touch you, you can no longer hear her voice, you can no longer smell her fragrance.

It may take a while to develop this 6th sense. It may come sooner for you or later for others. But it will come! You may be alone, you may be at a family gathering, you may be at home, or you may be somewhere else. But all of a sudden y ou will know Dorothy is there with you. You will be just as sure of her presence as you were of her presence last week.

Dorothy loved you from the first, she loved you till she took her last breath and she'll continue to love you till the day comes when you are reunited and she welcomes you home.

Just because a loved one moves to another state and you no longer see that person every day, it doesn't mean they stopped being your sister, your brother, your uncle, your grandfather, your grandmother, or your friend. You just can't see that person. Dorothy hasn't left. God allowed her to dwell on this earth as you saw her. At birth, she was an infant. Then she grew into a child, a teenager, a young woman, a mature woman, an elder woman. Now you just have to adjust to this change in their life. The body that God allowed her to dwell in on this earth wore out; her heart wore out. So, she changed into the new form that God ultimately intended her to be. Accept this change in her life as you accepted the changes in her life in the last 82 years. She didn't turn into a cloud, a tree, a star or any other earthly form that we know of. She's now dwelling in a form that we, as Christians, are not truly able to comprehend while we dwell in the earthly bodies that we are familiar with. But, she hasn't stopped living, in fact, she's just started living as God intended her to do. Just as someone else we've heard of before. His name is Jesus. Our Lord said, "I go to prepare a place for you that you may dwell there with me." Some day we each one will understand the change that has taken place in Dorothy's life. A change that we, ourselves, will experience when we pass from this body on earth into our new bodies in Eternity

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF DEATH

Death is a gateway we all must pass through
To reach that fair land where the soul's born anew,
For man's born to die, and his sojourn on earth
Is a short span of years beginning with birth.
And like pilgrims we wander until Death takes our hand
And we start on the journey to God's Promised Land--
A place where we'll find no suffering or tears
Where time is not counted in days, months, or years
And in that fair city that God has prepared
Are unending joys to be happily shared
With all of our loved ones who patiently wait
On death's other side to open the gate