Funeral services for Robert Fulton Dorsey, Sr., conducted by Brother Eugene White, were held Wednesday, June 13, 2012, at the Kingstree Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Burial, directed by Henryhand Funeral Home, followed at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses Cemetery. Mr. Dorsey died Friday, June 8, 2012, at Carolinas Hospital System of Florence. He was born June 2, 1925, in Nesmith, a son of the late Ozzie, Sr. and Iola Green Dorsey. He was educated at the Howard High School of Georgetown and graduated from South Carolina Area Trade School (now Denmark Technical College) of Denmark. He worked until his retirement from Kingstree Dry Cleaners. He enjoyed the process of fiber care and protection, resulting in the purchase of the Greeleyville Dry Cleaners as a family business for several years. The work he enjoyed most was the preaching of the good news of God’s Kingdom. He used the living room of his home as a meeting place for Jehovah’s Witnesses. He continued to serve for 51 years in the Kingstree congregation. His siblings, Cubit, Ben, Epps, Ozzie, Jr., and George Dorsey, Annie Frazier and Samson Tucker, preceded him in death. He was also preceded in death by his first wife, Maggie Watson Dorsey. Survivors are: his wife, Dorothy Crayton Dorsey; four daughters, Roberta Faust (Willie, Sr.) of Orangeburg; Diane Tisdale (William) of Salters; Cherel “Lib” Murray of Kingstree; and Emma Russell (Dorsey); two sons, Robert Lee Nesmith of Rochester, New York; and Robert F. Dorsey, Jr. (Deloris) of Kingstree; two stepsons, Steve Cornell of Conway; and Roger Crayton of Richmond, Virginia; two sisters, Florence Flowers of Wilmington, North Carolina; and Lonnie Bell Tisdale of Trio; 13 grandchildren; and 22 great-grandchildren.

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