Anna M. Dorr, 92, retired operator

Anna M. Dorr, a former Ridgefielder and retired telephone operator, died Monday, Nov. 6, at the Bennington Health and Rehabilitation Center in Bennington, Vt. She was 92 years old and the widow of John Dorr.
A native of the Bronx, N.Y., Mrs. Dorr was born on Sept. 13, 1908, a daughter of the late Henry and Margaret Singer Rice. She attended New York schools, and had lived in the Bronx and Brooklyn for many years.
She was a retired telephone operator, and had last worked for AT&T in New York. She belonged to the Telephone Pioneer Workers Association.
Mrs. Dorr moved to 27 Lincoln Lane in 1964 and was there until 1984 when she moved to Yorktown, where she lived for 12 years before moving to Vermont.
Mrs. Dorr enjoyed raising flowers. “She loved to garden,” said her son, Paul Dorr of Ridgefield. “She was always out in the garden.”
Mrs. Dorr also enjoyed baking and, when her husband was alive, travel.
She had been a member of St. Mary’s Church here.
Besides her son, Mrs. Dorr is survived by a daughter, Ann Nolan and her husband Donald of Pownal, Vt., as well as 10 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
A stepdaughter, Rosemary Wood, died in 1999.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Thursday at 10 a.m. in St. Mary’s Church here.
Burial will follow in the Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven in Hawthorne, N.Y.
Contributions in her memory may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association of Fairfield County, 611 Riverside Avenue, Westport, CT 06880.