Obituaries

As our family mourns the loss of our beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, we remember Dolores Mae Casebolt in loving tribute. Dolores entered into rest on January 19, 2018, at the age of 84.

Dolores was born in Iowa on August 16, 1933. She grew up on her family's farm in Iowa City with her parents Leo and Lolita Anciaux, brothers Willis and Robert and her sisters Marilyn and Linda. Dolores graduated from Iowa City High School on June 7, 1951. She moved to California in 1953, where she was employed as a bookkeeper for Coca-Cola in Oakland. While here in California Dolores met Bernard Casebolt at a dance at the Ali Baba Ballroom where she mistakenly gave Barney an incorrect phone number upon saying goodbye. The next day she was heading to Reno with her sister and Dolores was beside herself trying to remember the number she wrote down for him. Luckily, she remembered and had a girlfriend phone that wrong number so that they could pass on her correct number to Barney. That was that and the rest is history. Barney and Dolores were married in Reno, NV on October 10, 1958, at Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Church. The young couple moved a bit after marrying and took their family to Colorado and Iowa, but ultimately Dolores chose to return to California. They bought a home in Newark, CA where they have lived and raised their family for over 60 years. After their children got older and began to move on to college Dolores returned to work. She worked for the Mervyn’s headquarters as an accounts supervisor in Hayward for over 16 years until Dayton Hudson headquarters moved back east. In her free time, when not raising her five children or babysitting her grandchildren, Dolores enjoyed reading, taking cooking classes, tole painting, knitting and crocheting, the latter being something her daughters all enjoyed learning from her.

Dolores is survived by her husband Bernard Casebolt, her children Rochelle Voelker, Cathy Sherlund, Janet Casebolt, Matt Casebolt and Colleen Roe. She also had 13 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. Dolores is also survived by her brother, Willis Anciaux, and sisters, Marilyn McCreary and Linda Tomcek.