Anita Evans Dodson

Mrs. Anita Evans Dodson, age 95, passed away on Thursday, November 26, 2015, at Lillian Carter Health & Rehab Center in Plains. Funeral services will be held on Sunday, November 29, at 2:00 PM, from the graveside at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Rev. Brooks Partain will officiate. Born July 15, 1920 in Tifton, she was a daughter of the late Leonard Newton Evans, Sr. and Ruby Pearl Bagley Evans. Mrs. Dodson was a homemaker and was a member of Plains Baptist Church, where she was a church volunteer. She had also worked for nine years as a nurse at the Americus and Sumter County Hospital, and as a substitute teacher and teachers' aid in the Sumter County School System. She was preceded in death by her husband, Chappell Dodson, Sr.; by an infant daughter, Juanita Dodson; by a sister, Frances Evans; and by a brother, Leonard N. Evans, Jr. Survivors include one daughter, Beth Thomas (Dan) of Plains; three sons: Chappell Dodson, Jr. (Lena) of Ft. Walton Beach, FL, A.C. Dodson, II (Diane) of Rome, GA, and David E. Dodson (Linda) of Rome, GA; and she was blessed with many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. To sign our online guestbook and express your condolences to the family, please visit www.hancockfuneralhomeinc.com Hancock Funeral Home, 427 S. Lee St., is honored to be entrusted with these arrangements for Mrs. Anita Evans Dodson.