Myrtle B. Dorsey, a longtime Findlay resident and restaurant operator, has died at age 114. She was one of the oldest people in Ohio.

Mrs. Dorsey died Sunday at a nursing home in Zanesville.

She operated restaurants in Findlay for many years, including restaurants at the former Gorrell Hotel and the former Phoenix Hotel. She also owned a restaurant on the former Court Place near the county courthouse, and ran a lunch counter at a bowling alley that was at North Main and Walnut streets.

Mrs. Dorsey was also involved in women's bowling from 1925 on, and bowled until she was 99 years old.

She bowled many years at Recreation Lanes, and for 50 years at Sportsman Lanes.

She helped organize the first bowling league in Findlay in the mid-1920s.

She was a charter member of the Findlay Area Women's Bowling Association, and in 1986 was inducted into that group's hall of fame for superior performance.

Mrs. Dorsey was married to Homer O. Dorsey, who served as Findlay's mayor from 1932-1939. Earlier, Mr. Dorsey also had served three terms as Hancock County's probate judge.