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Dora Dooley
Fannie Dora Lamm Dooley, age 85, passed away at her home in the Prairie Valley community near Lone Oak on Friday, May 23, 2008. Dora was born February 4, 1923 near Greenville, Texas to Clarence and Mattie Foster Lamm. She met her future husband Arnie Lee Dooley when her family moved to Lone Oak during her high school years. They were married December 23, 1942 in Greenville and lived in Austin while A. L. was in the Army Air Corps. Dora worked at the telephone company before her marriage and while she lived in Austin. When Arnie was released from the service, they moved back to Lone Oak and built a house in the Prairie Valley community.
Dora was a homemaker who took an active role in her church and community. She was involved in PTA at the Lone Oak schools, a member and officer for the Prairie Valley Home Demonstration Club, and an officer for the Hunt County Women's Missionary Union. Her real passion was teaching Pre-School children in Sunday School, Vacation Bible School, and Mission Friends at her church, Prairie Valley Baptist. Dora's gentle voice and manner imparted Bible turns to many young children through the years.
She is survived by daughter Jan Byrd and husband Robert of Greenville, son Ray Dooley and wife Penny of Lone Oak, and daughter-in-law Ann Dooley of Greenville. Her grandchildren are Becky and Dusty Goodwin, John and Jan Dooley, Steve and Lauren Byrd, Kenneth Byrd, and Eric Dooley. Great-grandchildren include Georganna Goodwin, Nicholas Goodwin, Justin Dooley and Jaylan Dooley. She is also survived by sister-in-law Marge Lamm and nieces and nephews Clarance Lamm, Jr., Johnny Lamm, Delois Little, and Twyla Smith.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Arnie Lee Dooley, her son Don Dooley, and brothers Clarence Hulan Lamm and Joh David Lamm.
Services will be at Prairie Valley Baptist Church on Sunday, May 25, 2008 at 2:30 p.m. Pallbearers will be grandsons and great-grandsons. Visitation will be at the funeral home Saturday, May 24, 2008 from 6 - 8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Memorials can bemade to the Prairie Valley Cemetery Association, P.O. Box 9273, Greenville, TX 75404 or to the Prairie valley Baptist Church, 2417 FM 513 South, Campbell, Texas 75422.