Funeral services will be Thursday, January 9 at Collier-Butler Funeral Home. Visitation will be from noon to 2 and services will follow at 2 p.m. Rev. Bobby Scales and Sammye Hill will officiate. Dot will rest with her loving husband of 58 years, Charles Thomas, at Crestwood Mausoleum.
Dorothy worked at Etowah County Courthouse as a Probate Office Clerk with Judge Wiley Hickman and Judge Bobby Junkins, and she retired in 1990. She was an active member of Union Hill United Methodist Church. She served the church in many capacities: the United Methodist Women, decorated the church and was in charge of food and hospitality. She was an active member of Mountain Laurel Garden Club, Attalla Golden Age Club and the Fiesta Club. Dorothy loved her family and friends with all of her heart. She always had a smile for anyone she met and loved having fun, and said we had to laugh to make it here on Earth.
Today she is healed as she joins our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew McCluskey; her brothers, Clyde and Henry; along with her sisters, Eva, Jude, Sue and Hazel. Dorothy was the last sibling in the McCluskey family.
She had many names: Dorothy, Dot, Aunt Dot, Aunt Dossie, but the sweetest name was “Gran.” She was called Gran by her most cherished great-grandchildren: Ashton, Brennan and Chandler Sutton; Baylor and Parker Brunson; and Burkley and Foster Butts. Dorothy leaves behind her daughters, Jennifer Brunson (David), Gadsden, Lisa Thomas, Birmingham; granddaughter, Misty (Jamie) Sutton, Canton, Georgia; and grandson, Blake (Kim) Brunson, Rainbow City; and granddaughter, Destiny (Ryan) Butts, Birmingham. She had a host of sweet nephews and nieces.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Union Hill United Methodist Church, 2905 Tidmore Bend Road, Gadsden, AL 35901; or Tidmore Bend Volunteer Fire Dept., 1708 Tidmore Bend Road, Gadsden, AL 35901.
