Dorothy Jean Broodo

Dorothy Jean Broodo passed away peacefully on July 18, 2023 / 29 Tammuz 5783. She was the treasured matriarch of the Broodo family with four children; Marcia Rose Broodo Sinclair; Charlene Nathan; Jack Broodo and his wife Linda; and Kenneth Chaim Broodo and his wife Beth-Lauren. She was adored by her grandchildren and great grandchildren Shea Alyssa Sinclair; Chelsea Rhianna Litoff (nee’ Sinclair), her husband Austin Morris, and their children Archer Louis and Marshall Aaron; Zachary Michael Nathan, his wife Dara, and their children Naomi Evelyn, Judah Joseph, and Abigail Miriam; Nicholas David Broodo ob”m; Daniel Harrison Broodo; Michael Broodo; Caleb Benjamin Broodo; Rachel Rosenberg (nee’ Broodo), her husband Hillel Shlomo, and their newborn son; Leah Esther Margolies (nee’ Broodo), her husband Rafael Shmuel Chaim, and their son Gavriel Azaryah; and Mordechai David Broodo.

Dorothy Jean was born December 23, 1930 to Charles and Evelyn Marshall in Goose Creek, Texas where she grew up alongside her many relatives in Baytown and Galveston. She attended Goose Creek and Baytown schools, and then attended college at the University of Texas in Austin where she received her bachelor’s degree in Drama. At UT she met and fell for a handsome graduate student, marrying Dr. Archie Broodo ob”m on September 2, 1951. From Austin they moved around as Archie developed his career, to Dallas, Ft. Worth, Columbia, S.C., Florence, S.C., then back to Dallas in 1966 where they raised their family and remained. In Dallas, she went to work in 1970 to help the family, and enjoyed a decade-long career with Shelly’s Tall Girl Shops, where she became the National Director of some 55 stores across the U.S. while raising four children and taking care of her home.

Dorothy loved acting and appeared in numerous small-town performances including directing and taking the leading role in Macbeth. She also was an avid life-long Mah Jong player and always had a weekly game with her many friends over the years. Dorothy was deeply proud of her Judaism, sought out Jewish connections her entire life, and encouraged her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren to feel and do the same. She was very involved in Hadassah wherever she and Archie moved. She was a member and attendee at Congregation Ohr HaTorah Dallas from its inception in 1999.

Dorothy – also “Mom” “Nonny” and “G-G” – loved her family dearly and always lit up anytime they were together. She forever praised and encouraged her kids, grandkids and great grandkids, and adored every one of them. Dorothy was preceded in her passing by her beloved grandson Nicholas David Broodo, her husband Archie, and her sister Saralyn Uzick, and is survived by her brother Jerry Marshall. She will be deeply missed. Her memory should be for a blessing.

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