Dolores Eyring

Dolores Jean (Junk) Eyring died peacefully at home in Farmington, Pa, on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at the age of 98,

Dolores was born in Uniontown, Pa., on March 18, 1928, the daughter of the late Roy Ashbel Junk and Edna Martin Junk. She graduated from Uniontown High School and the Uniontown Hospital School of Nursing. She later graduated from Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Fla., earning a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing.

She was a caring and dedicated registered nurse for 45 years. 

Her most important role, however, was as the loving, always supportive mother of her two children, Marc and Donna.  She was proud of their accomplishments, Marc as a scientist who earned his PhD. in physical chemistry, and Donna as a journalist. Marc predeceased her in 2013.

Her children were equally proud of her, and grateful and moved when residents of the then-small town of Winter Garden would stop them on the street to tell them what a wonderful nurse she was, or how her example and encouragement inspired their own careers as nurses or doctors.  

She grew up in Dunbar, Pa., then moved to Florida in the mid 1950s after marrying her husband, Jack Eyring.  She lived for 50 years in Winter Garden, Fla., working most of those years at the former West Orange Memorial Hospital. She returned to Pennsylvania to live in Farmington around 2010. 

She was a member of Laurel Hill Presbyterian Church in Dunbar, worshipping in the red brick building that her grandfather. Ashbel Junk helped build. 

She is survived by her daughter Donna. Her former husband Jack, with whom she remained friends, died in 1995. She is also survived by her special cousins, James W. Junk Jr., who was like a little brother to her, and his wife Ida, as well as cousins Robert L. Junk and his wife Maryanne, Lois Wahler and her husband Jerry, and Alverta Herbert, her son Emmert Herbert, and all their families.  

She was also lucky to have good friends in her life, including the late Johnny Rutland of Winter Garden and his surviving wife Yvonne, and Diane Victor of Orlando. 

Her loving heart extended to all creatures, great and small — first for her many dogs and cats through the years, including her latest German Shepherd Greta, who will miss her. But also, to all the wild creatures, from the birds, bears, turkeys and deer she saw out her windows in Farmington, to endangered animals of the world. 

Arrangements are under the direction of Donald R. Crawford Funeral Home, Hopwood.  Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Friday at Laurel Hill Presbyterian Church in Dunbar, Pa., followed by the service at the church at 11 a.m.

Donations in her memory are suggested for Fayette Friends of Animals, 223 Searights-Herbert Road, Uniontown, Pa., or at ffoashelter.org, or to the Laurel Hill Presbyterian Church

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