Youngest of Seven, Dorothy Fieg Roman Dies

Dorothy Fieg Roman, 83, youngest of seven brothers and sisters born to Lothar E. and Florence Shields Fieg, died July 16 in Hillsborough, NJ after a long period of declining health.  Her family was at her side.

Dorothy was born May 24, 1929 in the master bedroom of the family homestead in Oneonta.  She graduated from Oneonta High School in 1947.  Her father was the builder of Thornwood, home of the Hartwick College president.

Designing a mouse maze which was built at her direction in her father's carpentry shop, she won a scholarship as first prize in a science fair competition, enabling her to enroll at Hartwick College in 1947.  There she studied nursing for three years.

She worked as a secretary for the Farone and Steidle law firm and later State Teachers College in Oneonta before marrying Robert Roman of Utica, who preceded her in death. She had been a member of the choir at First United Presbyterian Church in Oneonta, where she was married.

At the time of their marriage her husband was manager of the F.W. Woolworth's store in Oneonta, and she supported him as he gradually advanced to regional manager for the Woolworth's chain at various venues in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The couple also devoted themselves to the raising of three sons.

For more than a decade she worked as a librarian until she retired more than 30 years ago.

She is survived by her sons, John of Somerset, N.J., Donald of Upper Chichester, Penn. and Mark of Edgewood, Md.; her sister Maxine Whiteside of Sioux City, IA, six grandchildren and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

Memorial services will be held on Aug. 4 at the Roman family plot in Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica, where her ashes will be interred.  Honorariums may be made in her memory to the Hartwick College Alumni Association in Oneonta.

Van Arsdale Funeral Home in Somerset, N.J., is in charge of preliminary arrangements.