Funeral services for Dorothy Dean Mays, 84, of Hanceville will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4 at Damascus Missionary Baptist Church. Family will receive friends from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the church.
Dot was born to S.A. and Tressie (Allred) Dean. She graduated from Hanceville High School in 1957 and moved to Birmingham to work, where she met and married her husband, Billy. They were married 52 years at his death in 2012.
She was a life-long member of Damascus Church, and a committed member of the 91 Homemakers Club, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, as the oldest existing homemakers club in Alabama.
Dot retired from the City of Cullman, where she worked as a secretary in the public works and building inspector offices. She was an avid gardener, maintaining a beautiful yard of blooming flowers of uncountable varieties, collected and shared with friends and neighbors through the years. Ma Maw Dot, as she was affectionately known after the birth of her first grandchild, passed peacefully from this life, in her home Wednesday evening, July 31, after a short battle with cancer.
Mrs. Mays was preceded in death by her parents, S.A. and Tressie (Allred) Dean; husband, Billy Mays; brother, Paul Dean; and her stepmother, Edith Dean.
Mrs. Mays is survived by her children, Valerie Dotson, and Jason (Cindi) Mays; her grandsons, Christopher (Merrill), Joshua and Avery Dotson; her granddaughter, Lindsey Mays; her step-grandsons, Lake Smith, Joshua Crumbley, Jason Crumbley, and Landen Crumbley; sisters, Joan Hill, Patricia Ponder, Beverly Dean; sister-in-law, Mary Roberts; she was also blessed with 5 great grandchildren.
