Dorothy Katherine (Lagan) Rohrer of Simsbury, Conn., and Oak Bluffs, widow of Fred C. Rohrer Jr., died on Sept. 18, a dozen days before her 100th birthday.

Born in Bloomfield, Conn., on Oct. 1, 1911, she was the third daughter of nine children by her parents, James G. Lagan and Mary (Longworth) Lagan. Educated in the Bloomfield Schools, she graduated from Bloomfield High School in 1929 and went to work as a registration teller at the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles, then located in the state capital building. After her marriage to Fred in 1934, she left to be a homemaker and mother. In later years, she was a secretary for 20 years at Arrow Hart Inc. in Hartford. She retired in 1976.

Her first trip to the Vineyard was in 1934 to meet her husband’s grandparents, who lived in R Cottage in the Camp Ground. She has enjoyed the Island ever since.

She is survived by two daughters, Patricia M. and her husband, William D. Banks of Shrewsbury, and Dorothy M. and her husband, Andrew J. Denalsky, of Embden, Me.; one brother, John E. Lagan of Loreauville, La.; three grandchildren, Kimberly and her husband, Kevin Leighland of West Redding, Conn., Kurt and his wife, Jeanne Denalsky, and Clinton Denalsky, all of Simsbury; three great-grandchildren, Kyle and Kalyn Denalsky of Simsbury, and Meridyth Leighland of West Redding. Also she leaves many cousins, nieces, nephews and their families.

She was predeceased by her husband Fred in 1976, and by her daughter Carole M. Rohrer in 1973; her brothers, James R. Lagan and his wife Lorraine, and Joseph L. Lagan and his wife, Sophie, and by John’s wife, Margaret in Louisiana; her sisters Baby Florence Lagan, Gladys Moriarty and husband, Thomas, Grace Mullen and her husband, Arthur, Marjorie Douville and her husband, Jerald, and Loretta Doherty and her husband Michael; as well as some nephews.,

A Simsbury resident for over 50 years, she was a communicate of St. Mary’s Church and Our Lady Star of Sea in Oak Bluffs.

Her family is grateful for the loving care she received at McLean’s Health Center, and especially the Skyview Terrace Unit 4 Staff, and Hospice.

A funeral was held on Sept. 23 in Simsbury followed by interment in St. Bernard’s Cemetery in Tariffville.