Dorothy Mixson Jordan

The third of Junie and Leila Wren Mixson’s eight children, Dorothy considered herself blessed to have been born in a time when the Bible was believed and the family was foundational to life. Even the Depression had minimal impact on the tight-knit clan into which she was born. Uncles helped build the family’s humble home on Dorchester Road. Relatives from the Macedonia community supplied cane syrup for the table so no biscuit need go unsoaked. And all the relatives helped nurture and guide the children.

But it was her aunt Frances Mixson Caddell and “Pa” Jim Wren who touched her very soul with their love of Jesus. In their own special ways, the aunt and the grandpa from different sides of her family showed Dorothy how to testify for our Lord, how it truly is better to give than to receive, and how to be obedient to the Master with the perfect plan.

When Dorothy went to work at Walgreens in Charleston in 1941, she earned $10 a week. After paying bus fare and her mother’s $6 a month insurance, she had money enough left for regular shopping strolls down King Street.

After she married JT, the tall, handsome barber from Georgia, she often worked at her parents’ little grocery store. One of her jobs was at the American Tobacco Company. Her competitive nature ensured that she was always near the top of the line. She was also a talented salesperson, which she discovered after the “cigar factory” closed. Of course, her biggest source of joy was passing on her love of our Lord to her daughters and their children.

Surviving are daughters and sons-in-law Beverly and Wayne Phillips and Glenda and Billy Ward; grandchildren Erin (Steven) Doak, Meredith Grubbs, Gregory (Rachel) Phillips, Adam (Jess) Ward, Kaitlyn (Jacob) McMahan, Boyd (Danielle) Phillips, and Jenna (Cory) Redmond; great-grandchildren Jordan Hammond; Kyle Sholes; Nolan Doak; Zoe, Lillian, and Mixson Matthews Phillips; Wren, Brewer, and Truitt McMahan; Elias Phillips; great-great-grandchildren Ally and Caleb Sholes; sister Margaret Wade; sister-in-law Ann Blanton Mixson. She counted among her family all the boys and girls she watched grow up at Cokesbury and the outstanding young people she mentored as a leading sales associate in her years at Belk. Jestine Mood was one of those young people and she was like another daughter for all of the 33 years since Dorothy's retirement. In addition to her parents and husband, Dorothy was predeceased by daughter Gloria Borgen; sisters Frances Mills and Dora Lee Kraus; and brothers William, Boyd, Freddie, and Jimmy Mixson.

Visitation will begin at 11 am at Cokesbury UMC followed by the service at 1 pm, on Monday, Sept. 5. Burial will be at Oak Grove Cemetery in the Macedonia/Bonneau community at 4 pm.