Funeral services for Florrie Rachel Carter Dooley, 96, of Barnwell, SC will be held 3 o’clock p.m. Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Dillon, SC with the Reverends Dr. Charles F. Dooley, Rev. Dexter Lambert, Rev. Edgar Foster and Rev. Billy McLellan officiating, burial will be in the Greenlawn Cemetery, Dillon, SC. The Family will receive friends Monday Oct. 4, 2010 from six to eight p.m. at Folk Funeral Home in Williston, SC and also Tuesday two hours prior to the service at the church in Dillon, SC. The Lighthouse Sunday school class will serve as honorary pallbearers. Mrs. Dooley passed away peacefully at her home on Saturday.
Born in Marion, SC she was a daughter of the late Mike and Bertha Christmas Carter. Mrs. Dooley was a retired LPN having worked at Marion Memorial Hospital for many years and formally worked for Bell South Telephone Company. She served in the Christian ministry for over 55 years, was in the senior adult Lighthouse Sunday school class, formally taught the teen boys Sunday school class, she was director of the woman’s missionary union, girls auxiliary, vacation bible school, and Christian education director, and was in the adult choir. Served as a Cub Scout den mother, was a Boy Scout leader and was married to the late Melvin Charles Dooley.
Survivors include her son; Charles Dooley, Sr. and Janice of Barnwell, SC; sister; Christine and Leon Morris of Dillon; brother; Don and Carol Dooley of Sellersburg, IN, grandchildren; Kelly and Vic Brown of Lexington, SC, Chuck Dooley II and Ashley of Blackville, SC, great-grand children, Meagan and Zachary Dooley of Williston, SC, Cale Brown of Lexington, SC, Jordan and Jackson Brown of Fort Mill, SC, Jake Landon Foster Dooley of Blackville, and Isabella Lane Hiller of Hampton, SC, nieces and nephews; Terry and Janice Morris, Brenda Harrellson, Kristie and Eric Clark, Cindy and Chuck Crum, Angela and Fred Serger and Christopher Rockey. Lifelong friend, Lizzie Sweat, and special friends, Elizabeth Cook, Rita Edwards and Phyllis Barry. Mrs. Dooley was preceded in death by brothers; Harry, Bryan, Luke and Foster Carter. Visit our on-line registry at www.folkfuneralhome.com.
