Dorothy Tyor Muson, 1938-2025
Some of my earliest memories involve my cousins. We had second cousins on the Indenbaum side living locally in Los Angeles, and they were close to our own ages, but we also had New York cousins on the Tyor side. We didn't see them as much, but they were always special.
My mother, Terry, was the only child of her two parents, Rose and Bennett Tyor, but she had two much older half-brothers. Milton was 20 and Herman 18 when Terry was born. Dorothy was the younger of Herman's two daughters.
Mom always had a special relationship with both of her brothers, and with their children. Her first niece, Cynthia, was born when Mom was 3. Dorothy was born in 1938 when my mother was 11.
Dorothy was a most extraordinary woman (most Tyor women are!). She was a gifted artist, painting portraits, landscapes, whatever. She created illuminated certificates and memorial plaques (she made one for my dog, Daffy). She designed jigsaw puzzles. She built doll houses, she officiated non-denominational weddings, she had a day job, she raised 4 children. You never knew what she was going to do next.
She leaves a heartbroken family - her husband, Howard; her children: Eve, Stephanie, Nickolas, and Alice; her grandchildren: Oliver and Rupert, Howard, Lilah and Julien. She leaves her sister Louise Jones, her niece and nephew Leslie and Benno Jones. She leaves her cousins and many friends and admirers, me among them.
Dorothy spent 10 years as a volunteer at Westchester Community College's Conversation Partners program, meeting with foreign students from many different countries to help them improve their English pronunciation and understanding of the language. She became friends with three of them from Brazil with whom she talked in monthly Zooms and in person on occasion for the rest of her lifetime.
Westchester Community College Foundation in Valhalla, NY.
She went on a painting trip to Tuscany and brought it back with her. Here is just one of many beautiful pictures she made.
