Dorothy Boze
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April 1st, 1927 - October 2nd, 2013
From: Alton, MO
Visitation: 4:00-6:00pm Sunday
October 6, 2013
Clary Funeral Home
Alton, MO
Funeral: 10:00am Monday
October 7, 2013
Clary Funeral Home
Alton, MO.
Burial: Bailey Cemetery
Alton, MO

Dorothy Sada Maxine Boze, age 86 of Alton, Mo was born April 1, 1927 in LaJunta, Colo to Lemuel Wright and Meekie Lucinda (Hooper) Simpson and passed away October 2, 2013 at Baxter County Hospital in Mt. Home Arkansas.

She is survived by her husband, Gene; a daughter, Rose Mary and her husband, David Case and a son, Douglas Boze and his wife, Carla, all of Alton. She is also survived by a host of grand-children, great- grand-children and one great-great grandchild. David and Rosemary’s children are: Julie Hollis and her children Chandra, Sydney, all of Alton, Mo. and Courtney and her husband, Bobby and their son Kade of Okmulgee, Oklahoma; Janine Jenkins and her husband, Morris and their children, Riley, Brady, Michia and Landry, all of Mt. Grove, Missouri; Joy Caldwell and her husband, Bob and their children, Isaiah, McKayla, Josiah, Hannah and Noah, all of Arnold, Mo . Doug and Carla’s daughter is Jamie Parrot and her husband Rodney and their children Samson and Orin, all of Alton, Mo. Their daughter-in-law is Blaine Rybolt and her children, Onna and Jaden all of West Plains, Mo.

She was preceded in death by her parents, one grandson, Luke Boze, and 7 sisters; May, Verna, Mary Lee, Louise, Helen, Lorene, Eva and 4 brothers; Cecil, Ralph, Loyd and Tommy.
Dorothy’s father and mother,

Lemuel and Meekie married in 1903 and had begun raising a family in Oregon County when he co-signed a note for someone which later defaulted and the result was that he and Meekie had to pull up stakes in 1906 and move a young but growing family to Kansas to work out the money for the loan in the Kansas Wheat Harvest. From Kansas, Lemuel took a job in LaJunta, Colo with the Santa Fe Railroad Company where he worked for 25 years. Dorothy was the 12th child born to Lem and Meekie in 1927. In 1930 the family returned to Oregon County and purchased a river farm from Clay Turner at the Mouth of Little Hurricane Creek. Meekie set the children across the Eleven Point River on horseback where Dorothy and her siblings would walk down to Clay and Betty Turners Mill and continue with the Turner children on over to the Surprise Rural School. She attended the Surprise School for a few years before moving with her parents when they bought a farm in the Bill Dad Community and attended the Bill Dad School and later Black Jack School at Greer before going to High School in Alton graduating in 1946. She learned to be frugal since she grew up during the Depression. She attended the School of Cosmetology in St. Louis, Mo and later became a beauty shop inspector for the State of Missouri. They married in 1947 in Salem, Arkansas and bought the Lemuel Simpson farm in 1954 near Greer and appreciated the prosperity that Oregon County provided them. Dorothy and Gene operated beauty and barber shops in Alton 34 years, farmed while raising Rosemary and Doug and went with them to church. She surrendered her heart to Jesus at a revival service at Bailey Chapel as a teenager and was a member at Riverton Baptist Church. She learned how to paint landscapes after she was 50 years old, cooked a delicious pot of chicken and dumplings, loved fishing and doing mission work and taught young girls how to sew and swim.
Dorothy was a member of the Gideon Auxiliary.

Memorial contributions may be given to the Gideons International. The Clary Funeral Home will have the contribution envelopes.

Family visitation will be held on Sunday, October 6, 2013 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and the Funeral services will be held in the Clary Chapel at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, October 7 with Bro. Bob Caldwell officiating and Bro. David Case. Burial will be in the Bailey Cemetery, under the direction of Clary Funeral Home of Alton.

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