SHREVEPORT, LA - A Memorial Mass will be celebrated for Dorothy Catherine Berger Bocchini at 11 :30 a.m. on Saturday, February 14, 2004, at the Cathedral of St. John Berchmans, 939 Jordan St., by Reverend Father Curtis Woods, Rector of the Cathedral.

Dottie was born on July 5, 1946 in Providence, Rhode Island, and died on February 10, 2004, of complications from breast cancer. Her body will be donated to LSUHSC-Shreveport for medical research and education.

Dottie received a BA in Art from the University of Maryland. She was an Art Therapist at Crownsville State Hospital in Maryland until moving to Shreveport in 1977. Dottie was a creative, witty, clever, kind, and gentle person who dearly loved her family and friends. She enjoyed volunteering, serving as a docent at the Meadows Museum, rescuing stray animals, reading, participating in her Book Club, drawing, and creating pottery. She was an avid collector of antiques and a strong supporter of the Arts. Dottie will be deeply missed by all who knew her.

Dottie is preceded in death by her parents, Henry Frank Berger and Dorothy Catherine Gavin Berger. She is survived by her husband Joseph Anthony Bocchini, Jr. MD.; daughters Claire Elizabeth, Anna Catherine, Mary Victoria, and Jane Louise Bocchini; sisters Ann Marie Grace and husband Charles Grace III, and Jane Elizabeth Berger; stepmother Adele Smith Berger, stepbrother David G. White, and stepsister Donna B. May.

The family expresses our sincere gratitude for the care provided by Drs. Gary Von Burton, Kim Jones, Anil Veluvolu, and Chad Hargon; the nurses in the Hematology/Oncology Clinic, and the staff of the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center and LSUHSC-S Hospital.