Pamela (Pam) Ellen Dillingham

Pamela Ellen Dillingham passed from this life to eternity on Sunday, October 20, 2024 at Terre Haute Regional Hospital with her loving family by her side.

She was born in Hammond, Indiana on April 24, 1944 to James and Helen (Rutkowska) Mackey.

Pam was a woman of many talents.  She was an accomplished seamstress and quilter, an excellent painter, gardener, and cook.  She hand painted the decorative buttons used by Dogwood Lane for many years.  She loved working in her gardens and was a certified Master Gardener.  She was an excellent cook with a large library of cookbooks.  She was a cake decorator and could replicate most any idea her family had for birthday cakes.  Her family especially loved her noodles and sugar cookies.  She was affectionately known to all of her grandchildren as "Mimi".  She loved Jesus, studying His word, even during her recent hospitalization where she witnessed to her doctors and all who cared for her there.

She is preceded in death by her parents and husband, Roy Dillingham, who she married on November 9, 1973.

Those left behind to cherish her memory include her sister, Karen (Larry) Carty, children, Melanie (Mike) Miller, Dugger, Monya (Joe) Moreland, West Terre Haute, Stephen Blubaugh, Walnut Creek, California, Jennifer Whitlock, Sullivan, and Christopher (Asanda) Dillingham, Linton.  14 grandchildren, Tiffany (Jason) Brown, Ross Lindsey, Megan (Caleb) Sappington, Ryan Lindsey, Courtney (David) Cooper,  Ashley Vester, Lacey (Michael) Ball, Malorie (BJ) Howard, Rachel Whitlock, Gage Mason, Kendra (Landen) Davis, Ryleigh Dillingham, Lucas Dillingham, Irelynn Mason, and 15 great-grandchildren.  Her loving and devoted Pug, Truly, will greatly miss her.

There will be a Remembrance Service on Friday, October 25, 2024 from 4 to 7pm @ Holmes Memorial Chapel, Sullivan.  Interment will be at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Sullivan County Humane Society, Our Fathers Arms, or Brown Baggers