Dorothy Jean Abel Roop, 80, of West Grove, died Wednesday, March 30, at her residence. She was the wife for 56 years of the late Dewey F. Roop Jr. who died in 2017. Born on July 4, 1941, in West Chester, she was the daughter of the late Palmer and Jessie (Gamble) Abel.
Mrs. Roop was a longtime member of the Kennett Square Missionary Baptist Church. She was a lifelong homemaker raising her children as well as helping with her husband’s trucking business as a bookkeeper. She loved reading, traveling, crocheting, and visiting their beach home in Rehoboth Beach. She was an amazing baker making wedding cakes and her own Easter candy each year. Most of all, she loved her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Roop is survived by her children: Rockie Roop, Debbie Jenkins, Robert Bedford (Kim), Rick Roop (Janice), Sandra Brown, Jane Rizzuto, Bud Roop and Karen Roop (Bob), her grandchildren: Anthony, Heather, Kim, Gary, Stasi, Nick, Brandon, Daniel, Jimmy, Jeffrey, Matthew, Johnny, Josh, Randy, Meg, Jessie and Gram. She is also survived by her brothers John and Eddie and will be missed by her uncle Paul Gamble with whom she lived with. In addition to her husband and parents, she is preceded in death by her sons-in-law Gary and John and her sisters Peggy and Joyce.
Friends will be received on Wednesday, April 6, from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Kuzo Funeral Home, 250 W. State St., Kennett Square, where services will begin at 11. Pastor Robert Vannoy will officiate. Interment will follow in Longwood Cemetery, Kennett Square. Please visit Mrs. Roop’s online memorial by going to www.kuzoandfoulkfh.com.
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