Dolores Marie Alto (Phelps) Obituary (1927

Dolores Marie Alto (Phelps), 95, died peacefully December 7th 2022 in her home at Lake Tahuyeh, as she requested, surrounded by family. She was born on March 26th 1927 in Deer River Minnesota to Garfield Diamond and Loretta Teresa Phelps (Snell). Dolores married Forrest Padden in 1945 at age 18 and later married Allen Alto Sr. Among her many jobs she worked as a shipyard welder during the war, an Avon sales representative and team leader, and was a dedicated volunteer at Star of the Sea church. She enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren and family, picking berries, gardening, baking, bowling, golfing, boating, swimming, playing pinochle and bunco, and being involved in the Catholic church for YLI, Altar Society, funeral receptions, after-mass hospitality, and bingo. She is survived by her daughters Karen Rotter (husband Daniel) and Marcia Grandall (husband Laverne), her sons Robert Alto, Allen Alto Jr., and Gerald Padden Sr., 13 grandchildren, and numerous great grandchildren, nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her son James Padden Sr. (surviving wife Janet), daughter-in-law Donna Padden, her grandchildren Justin Rotter and Shelley Grandall, her husband Allen Alto Sr., and her siblings Donald, Gerald, Delbert, Paul, Delcie, and Thalia Phelps (Sklors). Public visitation will be held at Lewis Funeral Chapel on Tuesday, December 20th from 10am-4pm. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church on Wednesday, December 21st at 11am with a Rosary service to begin at 10:30am. Following mass, interment will be held at Forest Lawn Cemetery at 2pm.