Dorothy H. Cunningham, former volunteer coordinator for the Baltimore County Department of Aging who had also been a hospital trustee, died Jan. 25 at her Glen Arm home of heart failure. She was 89.
The daughter of Clayton Hazey, a banker and politician, and Maud MacDonald Hazey, a homemaker, the former Dorothy Hazey was born and raised in Boston, where she attended school. She earned a bachelor's degree from Simmons College, also in Boston.
She was working for Henry Cabot Advertising in Boston when she married William P. Cunningham, a lawyer, in 1953, and moved to Baltimore the next year.
From 1972 to 1975, Mrs. Cunningham was an administrative assistant in the development office at Goucher College.
In 1978, she was named volunteer coordinator for the Baltimore County Department of Aging where she directed the Life Enrichment and Pets on Wheels programs for Baltimore County nursing homes.
Mrs. Cunningham has been a trustee of Greater Baltimore Medical Center and later was a member of its board for nine years.
She was a former member of the boards of the League of Women Voters of Baltimore County and the Maryland Council of Volunteer Services.
Mrs. Cunningham was an active member of Havenwood Presbyterian Church, Timonium, where she also had been an elder and deacon.
She enjoyed vacationing at her condominium in Bethany Beach, Del., dancing and bridge.
Her husband of 23 years, who later was dean of the University of Maryland Law School, died in 1976.
Plans for services are incomplete.
Mrs. Cunningham is survived by a son, Steven Cunningham of Bel Air; a daughter, Dr. Janet Cunningham of Arcadia, Calif.; two grandsons; four great-grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; and a step-great-grandson.