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December 27, 2018Annella Mae Dorn
Annella Mae Guck was born in the little town of Perham, Minnesota, on November 11, 1936. She grew up on a farm with her parents, two brothers and sister learned her love of sewing and dreamed of traveling the world through her insatiable love of reading any book she could find.
November 9, 1936—December 19, 2018
When she was 14 years old, Annella lost her mother to the hands of God and a few years later ventured to Minneapolis to study nursing at college. After graduation, she and a girlfriend hopped in a car and drove to California, where she found work as a Registered Nurse at a Pasadena hospital and was introduced to her future husband Phillip Fred Dorn by a mutual friend.
After marriage, the newlyweds purchased a home near the city of Lawndale, and while Phil worked as an aerospace engineer Annella raised a family beginning with Michael and followed by daughter Deborah, who died shortly after her birth, and then Douglas. Annella was a typical PTA mom and so much more. Not only was she involved in all of her kids’ activities, but whenever she chaperoned an outing every kid in the class would clamor to be in her group. Annella returned to work as a nurse after her boys were old enough to be on their own and began to actualize her wanderlust.
She traveled the world and would eventually visit such exotic locales as Antarctica, Alaska, the Galapagos Islands, Australia, the Amazon region of South America, and Machu Picchu. She went on a pilgrimage to see St. John Paul II in Italy and cruised on the rivers of Europe through Russia, Austria, and Hungary. Annella and Phil spent many wonderful years in retirement in Prescott Valley, Arizona. Following his passing in 2008, Annella relocated to Oro Valley to be near son Doug (Loreli), while son Mike (Anne, deceased) made frequent trips from Los Angeles to visit over the years. Annella was a devoted woman of faith who loved God, her Church, Family, and Friends. She always considered herself extremely blessed for the life she lived. Thank you for being part of that very extraordinary life.
