Doris Dot Lucile Thigpen Stevens

COLUMBIA – Doris Lucile Thigpen Stevens, 85, an elegant and dignified lady, peacefully and gracefully went to join her Lord and Savior on Sunday, March 1, 2015. A funeral service will be held noon, Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at Jackson Creek Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the church. Her grandsons will serve as active pallbearers. Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, is assisting the family. Born on January 12, 1930, in Pelzer, S.C., she was the daughter of the late Dewitt Talmadge and Lethia Amanda Dabbs Thigpen. Doris graduated from Dentsville High School where she was a member of the Beta Club. Doris’ childhood was instilled with family and religious values and she carried those values throughout her life and shared them with everyone she met. Doris met her husband, Joe, and married on December 25, 1949. Throughout their 65 years of marriage, they enjoyed camping at the beach, the mountains, and the lake. Doris was a longtime member of Jackson Creek Baptist Church where she taught Sunday School, held the General Secretary position for many years, and sang in God’s Choir. Doris also worked part time as a cashier at Lowe’s in Dentsville. Her favorite pastimes were loving her family and tending to her African Violet collection. Doris is survived by her husband; daughters, Doris Ann (Carl) Kendall, Jo Ann Gooding (John Boulware); sons, Joseph Edward (Sherri) Stevens, Robert Wayne (Sherri) Stevens; ten grandchildren; seven great-granddaughters and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents, two brothers and two sisters. Our heartfelt thanks and gratitude go to the staff of Twilight Manor for aiding and providing the care and compassion Doris so richly deserved. She will be missed by all that knew her.