DOROTHY ASHBY

12/29/1938 - 02/16/2023

Dorothy Cheville Mazur Ashby was born at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Port Arthur, Texas, to Herman and Cheville Mazur. She was a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School in Port Arthur and The University of Texas at Austin, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She was preceded in death by her mother, her father, and her stepmother, Carol McEwan Mazur.

Dorothy’s most loved activities in life were being a wife to Lynn, her husband of 60 years; enjoying her three wonderful children and their spouses, Christopher “Kit” and Leslie Ashby of Houston, Lari and Mark Passmore of Houston, and Tristan Ashby and Jeff Chu of Grand Rapids, Michigan; and being a grandmother to her cherished grandchildren: Lynn, Pierce and Lillian Ashby, and Alexei and Ana Passmore.

She also enjoyed teaching CCD at St. John Vianney Catholic Church, being a docent at the Houston Zoo, and serving as a member of the Zoo Advisory Board, where she tried for many years to keep the zoo a free place that all people could enjoy, as well as the Assistance League.

In lieu of flowers, please send a donation to the Port Arthur Higher Education Foundation, to benefit the Herman and Carol Mazur Scholarship at Lamar State College - Port Arthur (1500 Procter Street, Port Arthur, TX, 77641), or The Star of Hope, Houston.

Rosary and visitation will be held at Geo. H. Lewis & Sons (1010 Bering Drive, Houston) on Thursday, February 23, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Funeral Mass will be at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church (1801 Sage Road, Houston) on Friday, February 24, at 2 p.m.