Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, September 16, 2012, at Colonial Funeral Home Stokes Chapel in Sandy Ridge. Interment will follow in the Spencer Family Cemetery, Lawsonville, NC.
Ruth was born August 4, 1929, in Stokes County, to the late Albert and Nancy Webb Dodson and was the last of 14 children. She loved living in the country and her green thumb was a gift of God. Also, she had a great art talent, painting oil landscapes and homeplace scenes. She was known for her charitable spirit toward those less fortunate. She attended Lawsonville Church of God as long as her health permitted. She will be greatly missed.
Shehe was preceded in death by her husband, Walter E. Spencer; ten brothers, and three sisters.
Survivors include a son, Wade Thomas Spencer, two daughters, Rebecca (Earle) Sullivan and Arlene (Terry) Neal; sisters-in-law, Lenora Smith and Ruby Dodson; eight grandchildren, three great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, September 16, 2012, at Colonial Funeral Home Stokes Chapel in Sandy Ridge. Interment will follow in the Spencer Family Cemetery, Lawsonville, NC.
Ruth was born August 4, 1929, in Stokes County, to the late Albert and Nancy Webb Dodson and was the last of 14 children. She loved living in the country and her green thumb was a gift of God. Also, she had a great art talent, painting oil landscapes and homeplace scenes. She was known for her charitable spirit toward those less fortunate. She attended Lawsonville Church of God as long as her health permitted. She will be greatly missed.
Shehe was preceded in death by her husband, Walter E. Spencer; ten brothers, and three sisters.
Survivors include a son, Wade Thomas Spencer, two daughters, Rebecca (Earle) Sullivan and Arlene (Terry) Neal; sisters-in-law, Lenora Smith and Ruby Dodson; eight grandchildren, three great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Gravesite Details
Her birth name is Acie Ruth Dodson
Family Members
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Annie Laura Dodson
1901–1910
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William Walter Dodson
1902–1970
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James Elmer Dodson
1903–1972
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John Henry Dodson
1905–2002
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Everett Cecil Dodson
1907–1986
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Esther L. Dodson Palmer
1909–1978
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Albert Dewey Dodson
1911–2001
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Lindsey Woodrow Dodson
1913–1972
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Nana Belle Dodson Hawkins
1914–1993
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Noel Clifton Dodson
1917–2001
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Joel Webb Dodson
1919–2003
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Cameron Morrison Dodson
1922–1986
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