Kathleen Dodge

Kathleen Dodge, who retired last year after more than two decades as a teacher’s aide and paraprofessional at the John M. Marshall Elementary School, died at home in East Hampton on June 11. She was 70 and had been in declining health.

In addition to being a teacher’s aide, Mrs. Dodge did various other jobs at the school, including that of school librarian, and was well known to a whole generation of children who are now adults.

She also was a member and president of the East Hampton PTA and a longtime member of the Ladies Village Improvement Society. She had been a Girl Scout troop leader and a longstanding member of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton.

She was born in Brooklyn on May 30, 1947, one of three children of James Tibbets and the former Florence Peterson. She grew up in Lake Ronkonoma, attending Gatelot Avenue Elementary School and graduating from Sachem High School.

In 1970, she married Ken Dodge, who survives. She worked briefly as a bank teller before moving with her husband to East Hampton. They had four children.

For 20 years Mrs. Dodge was an estate manager at the same house in East Hampton Village, owned first by David Geffen, then Michael Bennett, and finally by Melville and Leila Straus.

She is survived by her children, Kate McCarty of East Hampton, Kenny Dodge of Springs, Kimberly Dodge of New York City, and Keith Dodge of Richmond, Va., and by six grandchildren. She also leaves her brothers, James Tibbets of Chandler, Ariz., and Richard Tibbets of Floral Park.

The family received visitors last week at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A funeral Mass was said on June 14 by Msgr. Donald Hanson at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, with burial following at the church cemetery on Cedar Street.

The family has suggested donations for a memorial tree and plaque through the L.V.I.S. They can be sent directly to Kate McCarty at P.O. Box 2447, Amagansett 11930.