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The Memorial Candle Program has been designed to help offset the costs associated with the hosting this Tribute Website in perpetuity. Through the lighting of a memorial candle, your thoughtful gesture will be recorded in the Book of Memories and the proceeds will go directly towards helping ensure that the family and friends of Dorothy Bologna can continue to memorialize, re-visit, interact with each other and enhance this tribute for future generations.

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In Memory of
Dorothy Helen
Bologna (Munna)
1929 - 2017
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The lighting of a Memorial Candle not only provides a gesture of sympathy and support to the immediate family during their time of need but also provides the gift of extending the Book of Memories for future generations.

Encouragement

 One of the greatest memories I have of my grandmother is clamming with her in Ocean City, Maryland when I was a young boy.  She coordinated using a pontoon boat from her friend Norene, and took me out to the shallow, mucky, section on the bayside of the strand.  As a young boy I didn’t know what was beneath the chocolate milk colored water, how deep it was, or what dangerous sea creatures lurked below.  Grandma had a way of ‘jumping in both feet first’.  Watching her do this, I was right behind her.  She showed me how to dig into the muck with my feet until I found some clams.  If I brought up a large one, she would make a big celebration as if it would feed the entire family.  If I brought up a small one, she would lavish me with praise because the little ones tasted so much better.  It didn’t occur to me then that she would strongly encourage me and shower me with praise no matter what I came up with.  When I brought many up she would say, “it’s a nest!”, with her thick New York accent, acting like we won the jackpot.  Those rich childhood experiences ended up being far more valuable than winning the jackpot lottery for me.

 God broke the mold when he made my grandmother.  I have never met a tougher woman who had such a warm, sensitive, loving heart.  I am so grateful for the vivid memories I have of our time together.  Things that would be seemingly inconsequential to an adult resulted in shaping my childhood memories in a wonderful way.  She will be greatly missed.

 

Posted by Alex
Monday February 13, 2017 at 6:25 pm
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