Dorothea Mae VanHine

Dorothea Mae Schumacher VanHine, our mother and grandmother, passed away December 10, 2006, at Orem, Utah. She was born May 5, 1914, in Yatesboro, Pennsylvania, the only child of Herbert Craig and Hallie Emma MacPherson Brubaker, and grew up in Reynoldsville and Erie, Pennsylvania.
She graduated from Academy High School in Erie and then attended Philadelphia Bible Institute. While there she created beautiful hand oil-painted Bible flannel board scenes and characters she used in Sunday School classes for many years. She was a remarkable Gospel teacher. When living with her mother and grandparents in New Jersey, she met John R. Schumacher, a mechanical engineer. They were married in Brooklyn, New York in 1933. They had three sons, J. Randolph (Justine), North Caldwell, NJ; Thomas M., Ocala, FL; and Robert J. (Susan), Cedar Hills, UT. Dad's work took the family to New Jersey and Pennsylvania, moving to Palmyra, NY in 1953, where she met missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was converted to the LDS Church. She served in the 1960's as housing director for the Hill Cumorah Pageant, finding lodging for thousands of participants and visitors to that annual event. After Dad's retirement in 1975 they moved from upstate New York to Salt Lake City. He passed away in 1981.
Two years later mother met and married John VanHine, a retired electrical inspector and magistrate judge from New Jersey. They lived in New Jersey, Pleasant Grove and then Provo. Mother had played the piano from the age of 4, in styles fitting the popular music of the 1920's to 50's. They made music together and with piano, banjo, guitar and singers performed at retirement communities and care centers in Utah County as "The Entertainers," well into her 80's and John's 90's. John Van Hine passed away earlier this year. Mother last played the old songs and hymns in her memorable style on Thanksgiving Day.
Mother is survived by her sons, their 12 children, as well as her step children, John and Carol VanHine, plus lots of great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.
Funeral Services will be held Thursday, December 14, 2006, at 1:00 at the Manila LDS Stake Center, 950 East 850 North, American Fork, Utah, (just north of the Mt. Timpanogos Temple) Friends and family are invited to attend a viewing one hour prior to the service. Interment at the Pleasant Grove City Cemetery,
Because a family member has asthma we ask that you not wear perfumes to the services. We wish to thank the staff and residents at Seville Retirement Community, the staff of Berkshire Rehab and Care Center, Comfort Care Hospice, and Dr. G. Brent Johnson for caring help and comfort given mother.