Dorothea Kathryn Lorenz

She was a long-time member of Albemarle Presbyterian Church. A Celebration of Dot's life will be held on Monday, March 17, 2025 beginning at 1pm. The address is below:

6740 Albemarle Rd

Charlotte, NC 28212

704-536-3384

Arrangements for the funeral are being handled by:

McEwen Funeral Service at Sharon Memorial Park

5716 Monroe Road,

Charlotte, NC 28212

704-334-6421

Dot is survived by her three sons (David, Rick and Steve), a daughter (Janice) and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Born in Hickory, NC on December 15, 1923, she was a young girl who quickly became interested in music and writing. Later, during World War II, she met her future husband, Chester when he was stationed at Morris Field in Charlotte, NC. She had already known that she was attracted to musicians, and as a song writer, he fit the bill. They were married on a snowy day in January, 1944. Their music would be a bond that would cement them for 63 years and tie all their children together.

After being a housewife for several years, she became a Licensed Practical Nurse. In the seventies and eighties, she enjoyed being a professional wardrobe person for the many shows that were held in the Charlotte area.

Ensuring music was always present in her loving household, all her family were either playing instruments or singing. For several years, she was a member of the Charlotte Sweet Adelines while Chester and boys were singing four-part harmony with the men’s barbershop group. How can a family avoid music when both parents are song writers? Later, both she and Chester were charter members of the Charlotte Folk Music Society, performing many years with the group. Lastly, she sang with the Community Singers, a socially-conscience group.

As a teen, she had once tried writing, but placed the idea aside. However, she continued to imagine herself in adventurist stories. Years later, as a challenge from her children, she began writing several children’s stories, and she finally gave that old poetry itch a healthy scratch again, writing many poems.

Most of her poetry either had a concluding, moral message or was wrapped in good fun.

Some of her 100 or so poems, had deeper thoughts about the end of life or what man has done to the environment. Quite a range of subjects.

She will be remembered as a loving, talented mother. And after reading her works, we will still be able to hear her thoughts and imagine her voice. Her legacy will live on through the people she touched, her offspring and the thoughts she left with us.

It will be tough imagining a world without her. However, our world would have indeed been different without her imagination.