Dorothy M. Kelly ,77, of Old River Rd. Lincoln, died Wednesday at  Oak Hill Nursing Home, Pawtucket.  Born in Providence a daughter of the late  Dr. Earl F. and Helen (Fisher) Kelly, she was a Lincoln resident for 19 years previously living in Pawtucket most of her life.

She was a dietician  for the State of R.I. retiring in 1985.  Prior to that, she was a dietician for the former Chapin Hospital in Providence.  

She was a graduate of Elmhurst Academy of the Sacred Heart in Providence and the New York  Institute of Culinary Arts.  She  was an active member of the Elmhurst Alumnae Association.  She was a communicant of St. Mary’s Church in Pawtucket  and later St. Joseph Church in Lincoln where she taught CCD and was a Eucharistic Minister.

She leaves two sisters: Margaret H. McMahon of Pawtucket and Helen J. Kelly of New York City, a brother: Earl F. Kelly of Pawtucket. She was sister

of the late Harold T. Kelly.