Dorothea (Sullivan) Wyckoff, known to her friends as "Berri" was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts on December 1, 1923 and died in Boston, June 10, 2003. Daughter of the late Peter Joseph and Mary Magdalen (Feeley) Sullivan, she is predeceased by two older brothers, Peter and Francis.

Dorothea graduated from Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill School in 1941 and attended Wellesley College. She was married in Nashua, New Hampshire on May 1, 1943 to Robert Lewis Wyckoff. They settled in Natick, Massachusetts where they raised a family of five children.

Dorothea was active in the League of Women Voters and the Universalist Church in Wellesley. She loved horseback riding and was president of the Horse & Buggy Club in Holliston. She was also among the founders of the Holliston Curtain Timers. An avid supporter of the arts, she saw that her children had music and dance lessons.
In 1969 she became the first woman to graduate from Holiday Inn's Innkeeper School in Memphis, Tennessee. She managed Holiday Inns in Boston, Framingham, Bedford and Fall River.

Dorothea loved to travel, visiting many places, from Winnipeg to Mexico City to Haiti, Puerto Rico and other ports in the Caribbean, Greece, Egypt, Europe and the Soviet Union.

After retiring to Asheville, North Carolina, she traveled the country with her husband and cat in a Ford pickup and a 40 foot trailer; south in the winter to visit grandchildren in Florida, north in the summer to visit grandchildren in Massachusetts. In between she found time to volunteer for Planned Parenthood and to work for Harvey Gantt in his 1990 and 1996 Senate election campaigns.

In 2000 they came home to Boston, moving to Roxbury near their oldest son. A faithful member of Union United Methodist Church, Dorothea's joy was music and her concern was to see the historic church pipe organ restored.

She is survived by her husband of 60 years, and by sons Robert Wyckoff of Roxbury, and Richard Wyckoff of New York, daughters Margo Wyckoff of Delray Beach, FL, Vanessa Lukas of Yulee, FL, and Bonnie Boudineau of Geneva, Switzerland, and by seven grandchildren and four great‑grandchildren.

Donations in memory of Dorothea may be made to the Union United Methodist Church Organ Restoration Fund.