Dorothy Hodges Boren's Obituary
SERVICES – 10:00 am Saturday, April 29, 2017 in the First Baptist Church Chapel in Memphis with Rev. Daniel Downey, officiating.
INTERMENT- Fairview Cemetery in Memphis.
ARRANGEMENTS - Robertson Funeral Directors of Memphis.
Visitation will be from 5:00-7:00 pm Friday at the funeral home
Dorothy was born March 31, 1926 in Plainview, Texas. She passed away April 23, 2017 in Memphis, Texas. Dorothy had resided in Hall County most all her life. She attended grade school at Plaska, TX and graduated from Memphis High School in 1943. She began work for Mr. DLC Kinard Insurance Agency in July 1943, where she was employed for 17 years. She was employed part time for TC Delaney figuring and typing income tax reports during the tax season. She later was employed part time nights and weekends for the Palace, Ritz and Tower Drive In Theatres, owned and operated by Eula and Hollis Boren. She began full time at the theatres from 1956-1962. Then in 1962 she attended Jessie Lee’s Hair Design School of Cosmetology in Lubbock, TX and graduated with honors. She returned to Memphis where she owned and operated her beauty salon from 1962-1969. On February 14, 1969, Dorothy was united in marriage to Hollis Boren at Wellington, TX by Rev. LeRoy Gaston. Hollis preceded her in death September 12, 1974.
She was employed as receptionist and bookkeeper for Dr. HR Stevenson and Dr. OR Goodall at Stevenson Clinic during the year of 1975, after which time she resigned due to ill health. Dorothy accepted Christ as her savior in 1937 at the age of 11 in Plaska, TX during a revival at the BMA Church under the direction of Bro. EF Cook and Bro. Roy Flippo. She joined the Peden Memorial Baptist Church in Plaska July 10, 1938 during a revival under the direction of Bro. JW Mason, who was then past of First Baptist Church in Memphis. Since Peden Memorial Baptist at Plaska did not have a baptistery, she was baptized in Memphis First Baptist Church by Bro. Mason. When she moved to Memphis to work after graduating High School in May 1943 she moved her membership to the First Baptist Church Memphis, where she was active in Sunday School, Training Union, and the choir. When Peden Memorial at Plaska had to disband, and sell their church building, her parents moved their membership to Travis Baptist Church and Dorothy then moved her membership to Travis Baptist Church to be with her parents and assisted them in getting to Sunday school and Church until they passed away and then she felt led to return to First Baptist Church and moved her membership back to First Baptist, August 1999, where she was active in Sunday school and Church. She moved to Childress, TX January 2001 and joined First Baptist Church Childress later that year, before returning to Memphis a few years later.
PRECEDED IN DEATH BY – her husband, Hollis Boren; her parents, Harold and Viola Hodges; and her brother, Robert Allen Hodges.
SURVIVORS – 2 nieces, Debbie Gilchrest and husband Tony of Memphis and Tamera Hodges Otwell of Memphis; one nephew, Robert Harold Hodges of Memphis; 2 great nieces, Trista Gilchrest Gomez and husband Daniel of Amarillo and Tiffany Hodges Calavan and husband Chris of Perkins, OK; 4 great nephews, Corey Welch of Memphis, Timothy Hodges of Minnesota, Joshua and Jacob Hodges of Oklahoma; 4 great, great nephews, Santiago Gomez, Jude Calavan, Benjamin and Ruben Hodges and 1 great, great niece, Amelia Gomez.
MEMORIALS- The family request memorials be sent to the Fairview Cemetery Association or a favorite charity.
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