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Judy Arlen (Fahrman) Dorst died April 4, 2022 after a long illness. She was 84.
She was born May 8, 1937, in Rochester, Minn. She was the daughter of Dorothy Anna Everts and Harold Manfred Fahrman, who fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. An avid figure skater, she grew up skating on a backyard rink fashioned by her dad each winter in Rochester. Judy graduated from Rochester High School in 1955 and St. Olaf College in Northfield., Minn., in 1959. She had degrees in biology, chemistry, and Spanish.
She married Allan Dorst in 1959, after the two met at Golden Gardens Beach while she was on a trip to the Seattle area during a college break. They lived in Everett, Wash., until 1962, when they moved to Marysville. They attended Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Marysville where Judy became a Sunday School teacher and served as Sunday School Superintendent for a number of years. Judy and Allan raised five children together before divorcing in 1984.
Judy worked as a lab tech at Everett General hospital from 1959 to 1960, when her first child was born. As her children grew, she taught piano lessons for 41 years. In 1981 she went to work for the Everett Symphony Orchestra and retired as executive director in 1993. She moved to Highland East Apartments in Shoreline in 2001.
In addition to her lifelong love of piano music, Judy was an avid card player, cook, gardener, seamstress and she liked to knit. She also loved to travel; she visited Hawaii, Alaska, the Arctic Circle in Canada, the American Southwest, Mexico, New York, California, Massachusetts, West Virginia, Kentucky, Washington D.C. and France. She twice survived breast cancer.
She was a longtime member and volunteer of First Lutheran Church of Richmond Beach in Shoreline, playing in their handbell choir. She volunteered at Hopelink Food Bank and frequently organized potlucks and other get-togethers within her apartment community.
She was devoted to her five children and eight grandchildren. She is survived by sons Christopher Allan Dorst of Charleston, W.Va. (Jennifer Bundy); Paul Gregory Dorst of Seattle (Anya); and Mark Harold Dorst of Index, Wash.; and daughters Julie Marie Dorst of Grand Coulee, Wash., and Melinda Anne (Dorst) Horan, (Andrew Horan), of East Wenatchee, Wash.; and eight grandchildren, Shannan Dorst of Grand Forks, N.D., Teralyn Dorst of Boulder, C.O., Henry Dorst of Seattle, Izabel Dorst of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Kira Dorst of Boulder, C.O., Jacob Dorst of Charleston, W.Va., Eric Dorst of Seattle, and Zoe Dorst of Charleston, W.Va.;
Funeral Arrangements are incomplete at this time.
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