CHARLESTON — Dorothy "Dot" Cole, age 81, passed away Tuesday, June 6, at her home.
The family will receive friends on Friday, June 9, from 10 a.m. until the service time beginning at 11 a.m. in the chapel of Newsom Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Magnolia Gardens Cemetery in the Paynes community.
Dot was an avid gardener, and loved shopping. She was a business owner entrepreneur, and loved her family and grandchildren.
Those whom she leaves behind to cherish her memory include her husband, Larry Gene Cole Sr. of Charleston; one son, Larry Gene Cole Jr. (Ashley) of Charleston; seven grandchildren, Knox Cole, Brennan Cole, Landrum Cole, Joey Wall, Jim Wall, Clark Wall and Scott Ross; 12 great-grandchildren; 2 great-great-grandchildren; and one sister, Billie Gilmore.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Robert Alonzo and Alma Massey Hamblen; two sons, Morris Ross Jr. and Eric Ross; her daughter, Sondra Ross; sisters, Louise Nunn, Erlene Green, Ruby Aven, Lucille Browning, Clara Keeton, Edna Sanford and Gladys Assendorf; and brothers, Marty Hamblen, Chester Hamblen and Gene Hamblen.
Online condolences may be made at www.newsomfuneralhome.com.
