Dorothy (“Dot”) Casto Cody died in Lakewood, Colorado on February 4, 2022 at the age of 92. She was pre-deceased by her husband of 61 years, John Joseph Cody. She is survived by her three children, Loren Shaiken (Mark), of Denver, Colorado, Andrea Russell of Lake Oswego, Oregon, and Graham Cody (Renee Lauber), of Madison, Wisconsin. She is also survived by her three grandchildren, Zachary Shaiken, Ethan Russell, and Rowan Cody. Dot was born in Morgantown, West Virginia, on April 14, 1929. Her parents were Allen Thurman Casto, a plumber, and Gertrude Wright Casto, who was a teacher before her marriage. The Castos had a son, Allen Thurman Casto, Jr. who died soon after birth in 1924. Dot had no other siblings.

After attending West Virginia University, Dot went to Duke University School of Medicine, where she earned her MD in 1953. She attended a pediatric internship at the University of Arkansas Medical School. She met her husband while in Little Rock, and they married in 1955. Working as the tuberculosis control agent for the state of Arkansas, Dot put her husband through medical school while starting their family. The family moved to Kansas in 1962 for John to complete his residency. Dot was a stay-at-home-mom until her children were grown, and then returned to work as the campus physician at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas until her retirement.

Dot was a brilliant woman of many talents and abilities, but she was unassuming and unpretentious. She did not enjoy the limelight, rarely took credit for her accomplishments; the most important thing to her was being a loving wife and mother. She enjoyed cooking, sewing, and handcrafts. Her favorite thing was traveling all over the world, introducing her family to many varied cultural experiences.