Mrs. Dolores Elsner Bailey, 92, wife of the late William T. Bailey Jr. and a resident of Cape Charles, went home to be with her heavenly father on Tuesday, June 25, 2024, at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News. A native of the Eastern Shore, she was the daughter of the late Joseph Edward Elsner and the late Verleader Anne Charnock Elsner.
She is survived by her daughter, Donna Bailey-Woolard and her husband, William, of Rocky Mount, N.C.; brother-in-law, Jackie Lee Bailey; grandson, BJ Woolard and his wife, Becca; great-granddaughter, Emma Woolard; numerous cousins and friends throughout North Carolina and Virginia; and Larry Lewis, her caretaker for many years. Mrs. Bailey was a friend and mother to her daughter Donna Jo’s friends and loved her four-legged creatures and treated them like children. Her dog, Spice, misses her terribly.
A funeral mass was conducted Tuesday, July 2, at 1 p.m. at St. Charles Catholic Church with Father J. Michael Breslin officiating. Interment followed in Cape Charles Cemetery. Family received friends Sunday afternoon, June 30, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Wilkins-Doughty Funeral Home, 119 Pine St., Cape Charles, VA 23310. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Charles Catholic Church, 545 Randolph Avenue, Cape Charles, VA 23310.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.doughtyfuneralhome.com
Arrangements were made by Wilkins-Doughty Funeral Home in Cape Charles.
