<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Dolores Patton Vance, 81, passed away November 4, 2019. She was preceded in death by her parents Dorothy Edwards Patton and William Louis Patton, and brothers Louis Patton and Rick Patton. She is survived by her husband of nearly 61 years Samuel L. Vance, her sister Nancy Patton, sons L. Stuart Vance and William H. Vance, 3 grandchildren, and 2 great grandchildren.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">She was born in Nashville, and grew up both there and in Louisville. Her parents, Dot and Louis, married each other three times interspersed with two divorces. She attended school at Peabody Teacher’s College.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Dolores and her future husband Sam met on a blind date set up by two of their best friends. On their first date, while their friends were in the front seat of the car making out, Sam and Lo discovered their mutual love of <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="misc" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3" style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127, 127, 127, 0.380392);">Tom Lehrer</a> and were singing Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, The Masochism Tango, and Be Prepared in the back seat.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Her mother and grandmother were both special education teachers. This exposure helped give her the tools to take on teaching her younger son how to overcome his hearing loss, with the help of the Bud Wilkerson Clinic.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Dolores was an avid bridge player (as were many in her family) and a member of the ACBL and the Bridge Center in Huntsville. She was an ardent liberal and member of the Democratic Party, rising to become chairwoman of the Democratic Women of Madison County in the 1970s. She was also an avid basketball fan, especially of the Vanderbilt and Louisville teams.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Donations in her honor can be made to the Dorothy E. Patton Memorial Scholarship Ulster Community College Foundation, <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://4" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4" style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127, 127, 127, 0.380392);">PO Box 557, Stone Ridge, NY, 12484</a>.</span><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div></body></html>