Born in Loris, SC on the eighteenth of July 1941, Dottie was a daughter of the late James Monroe and Nancy Cordelia Causey Hardee. Dottie will always be fondly remembered as a compassionate lady who dearly loved her family and was an exemplary wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend. She was a devout Christian and was devoted to her Mill Creek Missionary Baptist Church. Dottie especially enjoyed participating in the church’s mission activities and programs. Dottie was an excellent cook homemaker and communicator which suited her well over the years as she served her church and community. She was the family matriarch since the passing of her husband Roger L. Lewis, she could be firm but gentle but would always speak her mind when opportunity allowed. In addition to her parents, Dottie was preceded in death by two siblings, James Hardee and Katrina Larimore.
Survivors include her children, James Lewis and wife Karen of Bolivia, NC, Carol L. Tallon and husband Mark of Bolivia, Wendy Marie Ward and husband Ken Stocks of Ash, NC; Siblings, Ina Lee, Eva Smith, Ronald Hardee, Jessie Barnes, Daphene Little, Gennell Lowrimore; 2 grandchildren, Joe Lewis and his wife Jolynn; Crystal Braxton and husband Johnathon and 3 great-grandchildren, Johnathon Braxton Jr., Jasmine Braxton and Lillie Lewis. .
Funeral services will be conducted at three o’clock in the afternoon on Sunday the twenty first of October in the Mill Creek Missionary Baptist Church with The Reverend Jack Edge and The Reverend Dr. Jeff Gibby officiating. Interment will follow in the Robbins Cemetery.
You are cordially invited to a time of visitation with the family from six o’clock in the afternoon until eight o’clock in the evening on Saturday the twentieth of October 2018 in the White Funeral & Cremation Service, Bolivia/Supply Chapel.
Although flowers are welcome, the family requests with gratitude that monetary donations be made in her name to the Mill Creek Baptist Church “Project Fund” at 1099 George II Highway, Winnabow, NC 28479.
Online condolences are encouraged and may be offered at www.whitefuneralservicesupply.com
White Funeral & Cremation Service, Bolivia/Supply Chapel
