It is with great sadness that the family of Dorothy “Dot” Foshee-Benton, 86, announces her passing on Sept. 10, 2012.

Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14 at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, with burial in Greenlawn Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13 at the funeral home.

Mrs. Foshee-Benton was born in Clanton, a daughter of the late Elbert and Effie Bone. She was a very faithful member of Woodfield Park Baptist Church. She will be remembered for her love of her family, heavenly father, gardening and her friends.

Surviving are her sister, Doris Kaye Tippett of Clanton; daughter, Jean Hardy (Carl) of Columbia; grandchildren, Marchell Weldon (Tim) of Clanton, Lynn Lawrence (Oliver) of Selma, David Culp Jr. of Alabama, Scott Culp (Shannon) of Florida, Carl E. Hardy of Lexington and Joy Wilson (Alan) of Evans, Ga.; numerous great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren; as well as many nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her first husband of 48 years, Arthur Eugene Foshee; her second husband of 17 years, Thaddeus Dalco Benton; daughter, Edith Faye Culp; and brothers, Carl Bone, Coy Bone, Clyde Bone and Cary Bone.

Memorials may be made to Woodfield Park Baptist Church Building Fund, 1834 Morninglo Lane, Columbia, S.C. 29223.

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