Dora Alice Hake, 91 died quietly of congestive heart failure on June 14, 2009, at Asbury~Solomons Island, Health Care Center, Solomons, Maryland. She was born on December 20, 1917, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the late Corrine Hess and Milton Diamond.

Dora Diamond graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women, now Chatham University. She received her masters in English from the University of Pittsburgh. Marriage to William E. Hake took Dora to Silver Spring, Maryland, where she taught English at St. John's Episcopal Parish School for more than a decade. Retirement brought Dora and Bill to St Mary's County, Maryland and Dora to Asbury~Solomons Island Retirement Community, where she continued to exercise her English skills as regular columnist and editor of Riverviews, the Asbury~Solomons Island magazine. Dora was active life-long in the Republican Party and sorted mail at the White House during the Reagan administration.

She is survived by a son, William C. Hake of Westminster, Maryland; a daughter, Susan J. Phillips of Merritt Island, Florida; and half-sister, Lora Kaltenborn King of Glenshaw, Pennsylvania.

A memorial services will be at Asbury~Solomons Island Auditorium, 11100 Asbury Circle, Solomons, Maryland on Friday, June 19, 2009, at 11:00 A.M. Interment is private. Should friends desire memorial contributions may be made in her memory to the Asbury Foundation, Asbury~Solomons Island, Attn: Melissa Carnes, 11100 Asbury Circle, Solomons, Maryland 20688.

Arrangements by the Rausch Funeral Home, P.A., 20 American Lane, Lusby, Maryland 20657.