Dorothea M. ‘Dot’ Ashworth

Dorothea M. “Dot” (Herty) Ashworth, 93, of Amherst, Mass., died Aug. 9 in the Elaine Center in Hadley, Mass.

She was a reporter at the then-Holyoke (Mass.) Trancript.

Ashworth leaves her husband, Dennis; three sons, Michael, Joseph and Stephen; two daughters, Chris and Barbara; seven grandchildren; a great-grandchild; a sister; two brothers.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondent Nimra Aziz, an undergraduate student in the Northeastern University School of Journalism.