Obituary of Jody Berniece (Dolby) Fritz

Jody Bernice (Dolby) Fritz was born on May 13, 1966 in Bellingham, Washington to Frank William (Bill) Dolby and his wife Betty Kay. They moved to Hood Canal in 1975, and she graduated from Shelton High School in 1984. She graduated from Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts in 1988, and she met her husband Andrew Fritz at Gordon, where they were married by his father the following year. She and Andy were the parents of two sons, Caleb William Fritz in 1991 and Jared Dolby Fritz in 1995. After the children came, they decided they wanted to move back where the family was. They lived a year on Vashon Island before spending 19 years in Olympia. This past summer, they bought their “forever home” on Hood Canal. Jody had a Master’s from St. Martin’s College and taught at Woodbruck Middle School in Lakewood, was an Assistant Principal at Ridgeline Middle School in Yelm, and most recently took a job as Assistant Principal at Sand Hill Elementary in Belfair. Jody was a multi-talented lady: fabulous mother, faithful servant of God, devoted friend, gracious entertainer with great food, water-skier, lover of running, and much, much more. She and Andy were killed near Cancun Mexico on December 19, 2017 while taking a shore excursion from a cruise ship to some Mayan ruins when the bus lost control and wrecked. They will be missed and remembered for many, many years by many, many people for the contributions they made to the world they lived in. Jody is survived by her children Jared and Caleb (Amy), grandchildren Emma Grace and Grayson Andrew, her mother Betty Kay Anderson her father Bill Dolby, her brother Kern Dolby, and her “adopted” daughter Saki (Jake) Perkins. Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, January 6, 2018 at 10:00 am Evergreen Christian Community, 1000 Black Lake Blvd West in Olympia. The family’s charities of choice are World Vision and The World Wildlife Fund.