Zella Myrtle Walker Dotson (1903-1990)

Zella Myrtle Walker Dotson

Birth

25 Jun 1903

Newport, Louisa County, Iowa, USA

Death

18 Sep 1990 (aged 87)

Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA

Burial

Aspen Grove Cemetery

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Plot

Block 327, Lot 411, Grave 06

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Myrtle Dotson (who used her middle name as did some other siblings of hers) was the sixth of eleven children in the family of Samuel Nathaniel "Sam" and Hattie Mae "Harriett" Moyers. Raised on the family farm, she was one of the children who was responsible for "extra duties" at age 14 when her mother died in 1918. Myrtle married Ted Dotson (Theodore Roosevelt Dotson) (1902-1997) on December 2, 1922 at the Parsonage of the First M. E. Church in Wapello, Iowa. They were the parents of Leonard "Max" Dotson (1924-1952) and Virginia (Dotson/Lox) Golliher. Ted and Myrtle spent a number of years living in New London, Iowa, but moved to a home on Cottage Grove Avenue in West Burlington, Iowa, in 1955, and remained there for their remaining years.

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The Hawk Eye, page 8A, September 19, 1990; Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa:

Z. Myrtle Dotson, 87, of 209 Cottage Grove Street, West Burlington, died at 9:09 a.m. Tuesday, September 18, 1990, at Burlington Medical Center's Klein unit.

Born June 25, 1903, in Louisa County, she was the daughter of Samuel and Hattie Moyers Walker. She married Theodore R. Dotson December 2, 1922 in Wapello.

She had been a clerk for the Red and White Grocery Store in New London for 35 years. She had also worked for the New London Glove Factory. She was of the Protestant faith.

Surviving are her husband; one daughter, Mrs. Virginia Golliher, Jackson, Michigan; one brother, Samuel Walker, Cedar Rapids; one sister, Elsie Walker, Marshalltown; two half sisters, Viola Van Houten, Corpus Christi, Texas, and Marjorie Kimble, Morning Sun; one half brother, Robert Walker, Texas; and three grandchildren.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Lunning Chapel.

The service for Mrs. Dotson will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Lunning Chapel with the Reverend John Cornish officiating. Burial will be in Aspen Grove Cemetery.