Cockburn, Dorothy (Dalton)

Friday, February 10, 2012

Dorothy "Dot" Cockburn, 81, of Dalton, Ga., died Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at Redmond Regional Hospital in Rome. 

She along with her husband Bobby were owners of Cherokee Building Supply and Cherokee Restaurant for many years. She helped raise half of the kids in McCulley Subdivision. 

She was preceded in death by her husband, Bobby Cockburn in 1994.

Survivors include her daughters and sons-in-law, Jeanne and Don Teasley of Cedar Bluff, Ala., Jayne and Gerald Bynum of Chattanooga and Nancy and Marvin Tallent of Dalton; sons and daughter-in-law, Brian and Debra Cockburn and Sam Cockburn, all of Dalton; sister-in-law, Peggy Morton of Cartersville; brother, James Dalton of Dalton; grandchildren, John Vaughn, Jennifer Anderson, Jeanne Weathers, Lynley Bynum, Kelsey Bynum, Karrah Bynum and Tiffany Cockburn; seven great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

The service to honor the life of Mrs. Cockburn will be Friday, February 10, at 2 p.m. at the Pleasant Grove Chapel of Julian Peeples Funeral Home with Rev. Max Caylor officiating. Burial will be in West Hill Cemetery.

Julian Peeples Funeral Home, Pleasant Grove Chapel, Dalton, is in charge of funeral arrangements.


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