Dorothy Elaine Teekell Gardner

BOSSIER CITY, LA - The family of Dorothy Teekell Gardner invites friends and extended family to join us as we celebrate her life and faith. An informal gathering will be held from 5:00pm to 8:00 pm, Friday, March 18th at Hill Crest Funeral Home, 601 Highway 80, Haughton. The celebration service will be held Saturday, March 19, at 10:00am at South Bossier Baptist Church, 1155 Sligo Rd., Bossier City, LA.

Dorothy was born August 19, 1928 to C.B. Teekell and V.L. Norris Teekell in Hall Summit, LA. She spent her early childhood in Bossier City, moving to Hall Summit where she was Valedictorian of the 1945 HSHS class. She attended Norton Business School and was employed by Peacock Surgical in Shreveport. She married high school sweetheart Billie H. Gardner on April 10, 1948 and began her lifelong journey as devoted wife and mother, grandmother and great grandmother.

Dorothy made a Profession of Faith in Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior in childhood and embarked in a fruitful life of faith and service. She was a very active member of Barksdale, Riverside and South Bossier Baptist Churches where through the years she served as youth and adult Sunday School teacher, WMU member and president, GA leader, and Choir member. Dorothy found special joy in all of God's creation and had an uncanny ability to reflect it through her beautiful sewing and creative projects. Her example served many and her voice and heart song continued to reach the lives of others, even as illness put words beyond her reach.

Preceded in death by her parents, and brother Charles Ray Teekell of Bossier City, Dorothy is survived by her husband; second mother and dear friend Elizabeth Teekell of Dover, FL; sister Diane Teekell and husband Jimmy Jackson of Dover; sister-in-law Linda Kay Teekell of Bossier City; 3 children, 8 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren: daughter Kathy Sanders, her husband Dr. Galen Sanders of Bossier City, their daughter Merideth, her husband Chris of Birmingham, AL, and daughter Ellen and her husband Blake of San Antonio,Tx; daughter Terri Jones and her husband Bill Jones of Bossier City, their sons Cameron, his wife Emily and their daughter Evelyn of Shreveport, Gardner, his wife Leslie, their son Greyson, and daughter Annika of Bossier City; and son Bill Gardner and his wife Sharon Gardner of Grapevine, TX., their sons Will, his wife Allison of Austin, TX, Garland, his wife Allison also of Austin, and Sam of Grapevine, TX.