Remembering 'Ms. D'

GAINESVILLE - Funeral arrangements are incomplete for Dorothy Dickinson, a former longtime director of the Hall County Library System.<br> <br> Dickinson, 88, died at a Conyers nursing home following an extended illness.<br> <br> She retired in the mid 1980s when the position was known as Librarian and the Hall County Library was a part of the Chestatee Library System, but she remained a part of the library system even in retirement.<br> <br> &#34;Up until just several months ago Ms. D volunteered at our East Hall Library, working to help fill our special needs clients requests,&#34; recalled current director Adrian Mixson. &#34;We will miss her. She opened the downtown library on Main (the current location) and for years it was one of the best things going in Gainesville.&#34;<br> <br> &#34;Even after she retired,&#34; Mixson said, &#34;she gave some of her time back to the <br> community, every week providing service to those who most benefit from her <br> years of experience: selecting reading for the homebound. This town lost a little something in her passing. And for those new to Gainesville, I know they saw her pristine 1966 Volkswagon Beetle tooling about town. It looked as new as the day she bought it.&#34;