Dorothy Elaine Cash

Dorothy Elaine Cash, a 74-year-old Trenton resident, formerly of Brookfield, passed away at 9:52 p.m. on Monday, September 4, 2023, at Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe, Missouri.

Funeral service will be Saturday, September 9, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. at Wrigh Funeral Home in Brookfield with Pastor Brian Baker officiating.  Burial will be in Cash Cemetery in Hart, Missouri.  The family will receive friends Saturday, beginning at 10:00 a.m. until the time of service at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, memorials to the family (payable to Matt Moser) may be left at or mailed to Wright Funeral Home, P.O. Box 496, Brookfield, MO 64628.

Dorothy Elaine Cash was born on November 8, 1948, in Macon Missouri to Vernon Wood and Hazel Ammon of Iowa.  She graduated from Brookfield, Missouri High School in 1967.  She attended Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. 

On August 2, 1972, she was united in marriage in Miami, Oklahoma to Meredith Lee Cash.  In March of 1973, she started her career as a seamstress working for Stanbury Uniforms in Brookfield, Missouri, making uniforms for marching band students for 45 years.

In her spare time, you could find her reading a good book listening to old-time country music.  She enjoyed her drives with Meredith around Swan Lake.  She loved her plants and flowers and spending time in her garden.

Surviving relatives include her daughter, Cynthia Ziegler of Topeka, Kansas; one sister, Joetta Wood of Plato, Missouri; one brother, Eugene Wood and wife, Bonnie of Lebanon, Missouri; two grandsons, Cody Lee Cash and significant other, Chris Birkhead of Trenton, Missouri, and Matthew Allen Moser and significant other, LaTasha Cunningham of Trenton, Missouri; one granddaughter, Senior Airman Jessica Lewis of Alamogordo, New Mexico; and one great granddaughter, Sansa Cash of Trenton, Missouri.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Meredith Lee Cash; her parents, Vernon Wood and Hazel Ammon; brothers-in-law, Willie Dean Cash and Roger Cash; sisters-in-law, Beverly Cash and Sharon Cash; and stepbrother, Marty Ammon.

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