Dolores D. Cloud

Dolores D. Cloud passed away on December 24th 2023 at age 93 at Wilmington Hospital, Delaware.

Dolores was born at home in West Chester, PA, daughter of the late Emma G. And Clyde L. Douglas. She was a graduate of West Chester High School and West Chester Business School.  Dolores was an outstanding athlete in high school, lettering in field hockey, basketball and volleyball.  She was also a member of the cheerleading squad for all four years of high school.

Dolores was employed by the DuPont Co., where she met her future husband in 1950, and they were married in 1951. She was a secretary in the Textile Fibers Department until their daughter was born.  She became a stay-at-home Mom for Suzanne and later for son Douglas.  She returned to DuPont in 1979 as a secretary in the Photo Products Department Lab at Chestnut Run, retiring in 1989.

Dolores enjoyed traveling, crossword puzzles and was an avid reader of fiction, with an occasional non-fiction thrown in.  She also enjoyed and loved the cats that were a part of the family for many years.

She was predeceased by her husband of 71 years, Ernest W. Cloud and her brother Clyde Douglas Jr. of West Chester, PA.  She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law Suzanne and Frank Taylor, grandsons Brian and Gregory Farrow and Matthew and Brett Taylor, and great grandson Oliver Taylor, all of Virginia Beach, VA; son and daughter-in-law Douglas W. and Karen N. Cloud, grandsons Ryan and Eric Cloud of Wilmington, DE.