Obituary for Dorine S. Winger
Dorine Smoke Winger passed away February 19th, 2024, at the age of 89. She was born Dec. 18, 1934, on Smokey Ridge in Magnet Cove, Arkansas. Dorine is survived by three of her four children, Daniel (Kathy) Winger, Donna (Scott) Kuzel and Diane (Blase) Salvatore. As well as her six grandchildren Joshua (Lindsay) Winger, Michael Winger, Marideth (Josiah) Canzanella, Alayna Kuzel, Brianna (David) Lambropoulos and Blase Salvatore, III. And her great joys: nine great grandchildren: Luke, Grant, Max, Garrett, Wesley, Easton, Lydia, David, and Ella.
She is preceded in death by her beloved husband, David and their oldest son, Douglas (Dawn Ellen) Winger and her father and mother, Lewis & Thelma Smoke, and her brothers and sisters, William “Dude”, Leon, John L., Betty, Clifford, Georgia and Kenneth.
Dorine met her husband, David, in the summer of 1957. They married August 1, 1959, in Hot Springs, Arkansas and were married for 63 years. They lived in Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas before moving to Maryland in 1973.
Dorine loved to work. She was proud to receive her Property & Casualty Insurance license at the age of 25. She went on to have a long career in office management & bookkeeping at various companies eventually retiring from Olde Mill High School in Millersville, MD, after 16 years.
She taught herself how to sew when she was 12 and bought her Singer sewing machine in 1952 at 18 before, she even had a car. She used that same machine her entire life.
Her love of Jesus, sewing, crafts and decorating for banquets, showers, and weddings led to a life of helping churches, ladies’ auxiliaries, family, and friends in making special times in their lives even more special.
Clutter didn’t matter to Dorine, PEOPLE did. No one could accuse Dorine of spending too much time worrying about a neat house, but she always had just the right thing that was needed to make a craft or to sew something for anyone who asked just because she loved to help them.
She also loved to bake and feed people. She is known for her variety of desserts including her peanut butter crisscross cookies and meltaway cookies. And who can forget her famous shrimp dip with Bugles or her barbequed green bean casserole. And she was so humbly honored to be highlighted in the 50 years of “Grace in the Kitchen” cookbook at Grace Baptist Church.
And even though Dorine suffered with dementia in the last years of her life, she never failed to entertain with her spunkiness, wit, and sweet southern accent.
“Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest. It’s about who walked into your life and said I’M HERE FOR YOU and proved it!” If Dorine was your friend, you certainly knew it.
Relatives and friends are invited to her VISITATION Thursday March 14 2024 10AM-11AM with a memorial service to follow at 11AM at Grace Baptist Church, 7210 Racetrack Rd, Bowie, MD. Internment will be held private. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Grace Baptist Church, Bowie, MD, for help with mission work around the world.
She is preceded in death by her beloved husband, David and their oldest son, Douglas (Dawn Ellen) Winger and her father and mother, Lewis & Thelma Smoke, and her brothers and sisters, William “Dude”, Leon, John L., Betty, Clifford, Georgia and Kenneth.
Dorine met her husband, David, in the summer of 1957. They married August 1, 1959, in Hot Springs, Arkansas and were married for 63 years. They lived in Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas before moving to Maryland in 1973.
Dorine loved to work. She was proud to receive her Property & Casualty Insurance license at the age of 25. She went on to have a long career in office management & bookkeeping at various companies eventually retiring from Olde Mill High School in Millersville, MD, after 16 years.
She taught herself how to sew when she was 12 and bought her Singer sewing machine in 1952 at 18 before, she even had a car. She used that same machine her entire life.
Her love of Jesus, sewing, crafts and decorating for banquets, showers, and weddings led to a life of helping churches, ladies’ auxiliaries, family, and friends in making special times in their lives even more special.
Clutter didn’t matter to Dorine, PEOPLE did. No one could accuse Dorine of spending too much time worrying about a neat house, but she always had just the right thing that was needed to make a craft or to sew something for anyone who asked just because she loved to help them.
She also loved to bake and feed people. She is known for her variety of desserts including her peanut butter crisscross cookies and meltaway cookies. And who can forget her famous shrimp dip with Bugles or her barbequed green bean casserole. And she was so humbly honored to be highlighted in the 50 years of “Grace in the Kitchen” cookbook at Grace Baptist Church.
And even though Dorine suffered with dementia in the last years of her life, she never failed to entertain with her spunkiness, wit, and sweet southern accent.
“Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest. It’s about who walked into your life and said I’M HERE FOR YOU and proved it!” If Dorine was your friend, you certainly knew it.
Relatives and friends are invited to her VISITATION Thursday March 14 2024 10AM-11AM with a memorial service to follow at 11AM at Grace Baptist Church, 7210 Racetrack Rd, Bowie, MD. Internment will be held private. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Grace Baptist Church, Bowie, MD, for help with mission work around the world.