Dolores (Case) Klein

Bliss --- Dolores Case Klein, age 68, of Bliss was welcomed into Heaven on Saturday, April 13, 2024 in Wyoming County Community Hospital, Warsaw. She was born on August 8, 1955 in Cuba, a daughter of the late Russel and Minnie LaFever Case. She married Charles “Chuck” Klein who survives.

Dolores was a graduate of Cuba Central School, class of 1973. She excelled in drawing and painting. She won numerous ribbons in 1972 at the Rochester Art Show for her amazing watercolor paintings and two art awards in 1973 from Sibley, Lindsay and Curr Co. After graduation she worked at the former Acme Electric in Cuba until she met and married her husband, Charles in 1976.

Years later Dolores worked in the lunch room at Letchworth Central School for nine years. She said the students affectionately called her “The Sloppy Joe Lady” – a term taken from a Saturday Night Live skit at the time. Dolores always liked a good laugh and it was common for her to try to get others to laugh too!

While at Letchworth she worked three years as a parent representative of an autistic child on the Committee on Special Education and was a volunteer at the Warsaw ARC Services.

She was a former member of the Hume Methodist Church where she enjoyed singing in the church choir. Dolores had been VBS director and teacher for three years and had taught Sunday school at Hume before the church closed their doors in 2007.  Later she and her husband joined the Castile United Church of Christ where Dolores continued to sing her heart out to Jesus, her Lord and Savior.

Dolores wanted to be sure to thank her loving Christian brothers and sisters from Castile for being there for her when she needed them and for being her “prayer team” during her battle with cancer. A dedicated wife, mother, sister and aunt, Dolores wanted all of her family to know that they were deeply loved and that each and every one of them meant the world to her.  

Surviving in addition to her husband are three sons, Adam, Andrew and Jacob Klein, a sister, Jeannette (Bill) Sylor, four sister-in-law, Donna (Bob) Jablonski, Sue (Dick) Snell, Marge (Rick) Smith, Sharon Gayford, a brother-in-law, Howard (Karen) Klein, several nieces and nephews, numerous cousins and her adopted grand-cat, Lucky.

Family and friends may gather from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm and from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm on Thursday, April 18, 2024 at the Kopler-Williams Funeral Home, 21 N Genesee Street, Fillmore where a funeral service will be held on Friday, April 19, 2024 at 1:00 pm. Tammy Lathan, pastor of the United Church of Christ, will officiate. Burial will be in Alger Cemetery, Fillmore.

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