Longtime Rumsonite and volunteer with the borough’s PTO, Education Foundation, Holy Cross and Red Bank’s Lunch Break, Dorothy T. Bailey, lost her five-year fight against cancer on Oct. 3 at New York Tish Hospital. She was 63.
A “woman of remarkable character and strength,” is what her loved ones called her in her obituary.
“Dorothy raised her family in Rumson, where she devoted her time to volunteering and service throughout her community. She volunteered in the religious education program at Holy Cross Church. She was a volunteer and committee chair for the Rumson PTO and a trustee of the Rumson Education Foundation, (for) which she served as a co-president helping to lead the Chromebook Project, one of REF’s largest grant awards, to the Rumson School District.
“She also started a group through Lunch Break collecting donated prom dresses and jewelry for distribution to underprivileged high school girls. Her interests included family ski trips to Stratton, VT and going to the theater, with season tickets to both the Two River Theater in Red Bank and the Roundabout Theater in NYC, the city she forever adored.
“Dorothy was a strong advocate and mentor for women in business. Even during her cancer treatment, Dorothy continued her business pursuits co-founding Bailey Allen Advisors, Stanton Advisors and working as a career coach.
” … We all will miss Dorothy terribly. “
Loved ones of Dorothy T. Bailey in her obituary
Born in Teaneck to the late Lester DeVries and Mary Parsons, Dorothy left high school at age 17 to accept a full scholarship to New York University where she studied business and finance as a university scholar.
She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business and worked on Wall Street for 20 years, rising to the position of chief operating officer and business manager of Institutional Client Services at Merrill Lynch, at the time, one of the highest business positions in the firm held by a woman.
Dorothy is survived by: her husband Michael; three loving children, Elizabeth, Rachel and Samuel; brothers, Peter and Paul; and sisters, Ann and Margaret.
A visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 7, at the John E. Day Funeral Home, Red Bank. A mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8 at Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church, Rumson.
In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Lunch Break Red Bank at: http://donatenow.networkforgood.org/lunchbreak.
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