Dougherty County GaArchives Obituaries.....Free, Dorothy "Dot" February 3, 2003
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The Albany Herald Obituaries
Dorothy Free

ALBANY — Dorothy "Dot" Free, 75, of Albany, died Monday, February 3, 2003, at 
Palmyra Medical Centers following an illness.

Her funeral service will be at 11 AM Thursday at Kimbrell-Stern with interment 
to follow in Floral Memory Gardens by the graves of her parents, Walter and 
Mabel Overby. The Rev. Dr. Bill Eidenire will officiate.

A native of Albany, she was a graduate of Albany High School in 1944. Dot was 
crowned the Cotton Ball Queen at Radium Springs Casino in 1944. She attended 
Asbury College in Wilmore, KY, on a music scholarship. She loved to play the 
piano and organ for many churches where she had lived. In 1958, she married 
Robert M. Pollock Sr. who preceded her in death in 1993. A daughter, Kathleen 
Thompson, died in 1995. She was instrumental in starting a hospice program in 
Van Buren County, Iowa, after the death of her husband and daughter to cancer.

She had lived in various places in the midwest including St. Louis and 
Kimberling City, MO, Fairfield and Keosauqua, Iowa, where she was residing at 
the time she married Renno J. (R.J.) Free, in 1996. She moved back to Albany 
following her marriage to Mr. Free. In Albany, she was a member of PEO, 
Southwest Georgia Exchange Club and Lamad Chapel.

Survivors include her husband, Renno J. "R.J." Free of Albany; two sons, Robert 
M. Pollock Jr. and his wife Nancy of San Antonio, TX, and Curtis J. Pollock of 
Erba, UT; a daughter, Cynthia J. Thompson and her husband Bud of Kirksville, 
MO; three grandsons; one great-grandson; two brothers, Willard Overby of 
Escondida, CA, and Bo Overby of Gainesville, GA; and a number of nieces and 
nephews.

The family will receive friends at Kimbrell-Stern from 7 p.m.- 9 p.m. today.



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