Yolanda T Dolecki of Gainesville Missouri passed away peacefully on August 4, 2023.

She was a registered nurse and graduate from the Youngstown hospital association of nursing (Ohio) she received a B.S. degree from Youngstown state university she received her master's degree in education at central Missouri state. She received her PHD in Education from the University of Missouri (Go Tigers!) She practiced nursing in many capacities and many states. She was the coordinator of the practical nursing program at state fair community college in Sedelia Missouri for five years. She was the state supervisor of health occupation at the department of education for ten years in Jefferson City, Missouri.

For five years she was supervisor of Heath at OTC in Springfield Missouri. After she retired, she was ombudsman at the Gainesville health care center for eight years.

She volunteered for the Red Cross Blood mobile drive for twenty years.

She lived a full life helping others.

She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, and her husband of sixty-eight years Joseph (Joe) Dolecki.

She is survived by her son and caregiver John Dolecki, her cherished granddaughter Cassandra Pryzner of Manitoba. They would talk every night at 7:30pm, and her son Joe Dolecki and Ruth Pryzner of Manitoba, and her granddaughter Zoe Lamus of Nashville.

She had a long and glorious life.