Thomas County GaArchives Obituaries.....Thelma (Fielder) Dozier July 22 2003
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Thomasville Times Enterprise - July 24, 2003

Services for Thelma Fielder Dozier, 92, are at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 26, 
2003, at Colquitt First Baptist Church, with interment in Colquitt City 
Cemetery. The Rev. Harold Burrell, pastor of Whigham First Baptist Church and 
former pastor of Colquitt First Baptist Church, will officiate. Mrs. Dozier 
died Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at Camellia Gardens of Life Care nursing home in 
Thomasville after an illness of several months. Mrs. Dozier was born May 4, 
1911, in Lexington, Ky., a daughter of the late Bessie Doyle Brookshire 
Fielder and Algin Fielder of St. Louis, Mo., and Colquitt. Mrs. Dozier grew up 
in St. Louis and attended Berea College in Berea, Ky. In 1930, with her 
parents, she moved to Colquitt, where her father owned a lumber business. On 
May 17, 1936, in Brinson, she married Robert Peyton "Pat" Dozier of Colquitt 
and Damascus. Mr. Dozier died Aug. 16, 1993, in Colquitt. Mrs. Dozier and her 
husband owned and operated Dozier Lumber Co. in Colquitt. After a lengthy 
sabbatical to raise her two children, Mrs. Dozier was secretary/treasurer at 
Colquitt First Baptist Church for 27 years. She was a former member of the St. 
Louis Junior Service League and a former Grand Esther in The Grand Chapter of 
the Eastern Star of the State of Georgia. Mrs. Dozier was active in many areas 
of the Colquitt community, an avid gardener, a longtime member of Colquitt 
Baptist Church, where she held a number of offices and positions, and was a 
member of the TEL Sunday School Class. A Colquitt resident for 71 years, Mrs. 
Dozier moved to Thomasville in November 2001, then to Baptist Village at Lake 
Park in March 2003. Mrs. Dozier is survived by a daughter, Patricia "Patti" 
Dozier, Thomasville; two granddaughters, Rhonda Maria Johnson Knoch, 
Lexington, Ga., Jan Tara Johnson, Bogart; a great-grandson, Wayne Carson 
Knoch, Lexington; a grandson-in-law, Charles Theodore Knoch, Lexington; a 
brother-in-law, Frederick Homer Eldredge, Charlotte, N.C.; a number of nieces, 
nephews, great-nieces and -nephews and great-great-nieces and -nephews. Mrs. 
Dozier was preceded in death on July 7, 1972, by a son, Robert Fielder "Bob" 
Dozier, of Colquitt, and on July 16, 1995, by a sister, Delna Clay Fielder 
Eldredge, of Charlotte. After the Saturday interment, a meal and a celebration 
of Mrs. Dozier's life, an event for family members and friends of the family, 
will be conducted at Colquitt First Baptist Church. Memorials may be made to 
Baptist Village, 736 Johnston Way, Lake Park, Ga. 31636, to Colquitt First 
Baptist Church, 351 E. Pine St., Colquitt, Ga. 39837, or to Thomasville-Thomas 
County Humane Society, 180 Big Star Drive, Thomasville, Ga. 31792. The online 
guest registry may be signed at www.colquittfuneralhome.com. -- Colquitt 
Funeral Home

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