Dorothy Mae Hitchcock, 73, passed away on Wednesday, October 25, 2023, at her home.  Funeral Service will be held at 11:00 am on Friday, November 3, 2023, at Coburn Funeral Home, 24 W. Howard Street Colfax, Iowa. Pastor Phil Dicks will officiate. There will be a visitation prior to service from 10 until 11 a.m. at Coburn Funeral home.  Visitation will be held from 4 until 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 2, 2023, at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to High Prairie Methodist Church and Colfax United Methodist Church.

Dorothy was born on October 11, 1950, in Reasnor, Iowa, the daughter of Kenneth and Anna Stanton Aikin. She grew up in rural Reasnor and lived in Arkansas for several years before returning to Iowa, where she graduated from Monroe High School in 1968. She received her associate degree from DMACC in 1978. Then worked very hard to receive her BSN from Grandview college in August of 2000. She married Lysle 'Skip' Hitchcock on May 28, 1983, in The Little Brown Church, Nashua, Iowa.  Dorothy worked as a nurse and was very proud to be a nurse, especially working on the oncology wing at Des Moines General Hospital and working as a school nurse in the Des Moines School District for eight years.  Dorothy taught Sunday school and enjoyed participating in church activities. She also enjoyed watching her kids and her grandchildren playing sports and other activities, reading, sewing, and making clothes for her children. During the summer she would spend several hours canning produce from the garden.

Dorothy is survived by her husband, Skip; children, Michelle Lewis and significant other, Rodney, Duane Cooper and significant other, Kari, Mark Hitchcock, and Amy Hansen and husband, Clint; grandchildren, Brianna Cooper, Jade Warner and her husband, Chris, and their daughter, Alayah , Alex Lewis, Deklan Lewis, and Eleanor Hitchcock; siblings, Rita Maston, Linda Hammock, Mary McJunkins, Charles Aikin and wife, Maria, Raymond Aikin and wife, Denise, and Kendall Aikin; sisters-in-law, Edith Aikin, Vickie Smith and husband, Ron, and Brenda Hitchcock; and many nieces and nephews.  She is preceded in death by her parents; brother, James Aikin; sister, Margaret Vasseau; brother-in-law, John P. Hitchcock, Ben Vasseau, Chuck Maston; niece, Dianna Vasseau; and son-in-law, Jamie Lewiis