Dorothy Kriley, lifelong Butler County resident and owner of Prescription Pharmacy died Thursday at 94.

When folks went to have a prescription filled or ask a medication-related question of a pharmacist in the late 1940s and 1950s, they probably expected to deal with a man.

But customers who patronized Prescription Pharmacy on Center Avenue in those days dealt with the professional and compassionate Dorothy Kriley, who served the Butler area as a pharmacist for 50 years before retiring in 1998.

Kriley, a lifelong resident of Butler County, died Thursday at 94. Kriley co-owned the pharmacy at a time when most women were at home raising a family.

But Kriley did that too.

This is an excerpt from a larger article that appears in Wednesday's Butler Eagle. Subscribe online or in print to read more about Kriley's life.