Dorothy L. (Leach) Lydstone, a lifelong resident of Reading, passed away in her home on February 2, 2017. She was 94 years of age. Dorothy was born in Winchester, Massachusetts on June 8, 1922 the daughter of the late William M. and Florence A. (Turner) Leach.

Dorothy was a graduate of Reading High School and was a member of the First Congregational Church in Reading. She liked gardening but most of all she enjoyed traveling with her husband to Maine and Cape Cod. She loved boating in Essex with her husband and their best friends and neighbors Barbara and Dick Dacey. She will be remembered in her neighborhood as the Matriarch as she was good friends with all her neighbors.

Dorothy was the beloved wife of the late William T. Lydstone, Jr. Devoted mother of Karen L. Murdoch and her husband Bob of Naples, ME, Dana W. Lydstone and his wife Elizabeth of Bedford, NH, Barbara A. Lydstone of Reading and the late Wayne T. Lydstone. She was the sister of the late Alice Whitcomb, Edith Spaulding and Barbara Van Horn. She was the loving grandmother of 5 and loving great grandmother of 6.

A funeral service celebrating her life will be held on Monday, February 6 at the Douglass, Edgerley and Bessom Funeral Home 25 Sanborn St. (corner of Woburn St.) Reading at 11:00AM. A visitation will be held prior to the service from 10:00AM-11:00AM. Burial is private. In lieu of flower contributions may be made in Dorothy's memory to the VNA of Middlesex East 607 North Ave., Suite 17, Wakefield, MA 01880.