04/03/08 - NNHS Newsletter -
Dorris Raines Dudley

Dorris Anne Raines Dudley
(26 Jan 1918 - 1 Apr 2008)

West Point High School Class of June 1936

GLOUCESTER - Dorris Anne Raines Dudley was born Jan. 26, 1918, and died on April 1, 2008.

Dorris was raised in Bohannon, Va., a part of Mathews County, Va. She attended school at Peninsula School in Mathews and graduated from West Point High School in June of 1936. She then graduated from Elizabeth Buxton Hospital Professional School of Nursing in 1939 as a Registered Nurse. After graduation, she was employed as a private duty nurse. She was an active member of the Buxton Alumnae Association and over the years served as president three different terms, holding other offices as well. She was also the first president of the Exchangette Club of Newport News.

She was a resident of Hampton for 38 years. She was a former member of Aldersgate United Methodist Church, serving as president of the Ladies' Bible School Class and Circle Leader in the Women's society at Aldersgate. She was a member of the Wythe Woman's Club for many years.

Mrs. Dudley was employed as the office nurse, secretary and receptionist for Dr. Lawrence S. Cowling of Newport News for 26 years.

She moved her residence from Hampton in 1992 to York County. She then transferred her church membership from Aldersgate Methodist Church to Providence United Methodist Church. She joined the Ladies Bible Class and the Dana Tyson Circle there. In 2001, she moved to Gloucester County and was a recent resident of Walter Reed Convalescent Center.

She was preceded in death by her sister, Daisy Raines Hodges; her brother, retired Air Force Captain Lewis W. Raines; and her daughter, Cynthia Dudley Berryman.

She is survived by two children and their spouses, Brenda Martin and her husband, Mike, and George Dudley Jr. and his wife, Donna, and her son-in-law, Bobby Berryman. She has seven grandchildren, Kim Middlebrooks, Robb Berryman and his wife, Georgette, Brent Fulford and his wife, Sharon, Cindi Sharp and her husband, Jamie, Ardi Nichols, Ryan Dudley and his wife, Christina, and Erin Dudley; two step-grandchildren, Kacie Smith and David Martin; eight great-grandchildren, Ronnie Dean Middlebrooks, Haleigh Middlebrooks, Kayla Nichols, Dylan Berryman, Tucker Sharp, Ryker Sharp, Bryce Fulford and Brooklyne Fulford; and two step-great-grandsons, Grant Russo and Devin Smith. She will be greatly missed by her family.

A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, April 4, at Providence United Methodist Church with the Rev. Kay Barstow Gentry officiating. Interment will be private in Haynes Chapel Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in Amory Funeral Home, Grafton.

Memorial donations, if anyone so wishes, may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, 6315 North Center Drive, Suite 233, Norfolk, VA 23502.

Published in the Daily Press on 4/3/2008.
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