Individual Details
Dorothy Mae "Dot" Kinley
(16 Feb 1934 - 21 Jan 2016)
Dorothy “Dot” Kinley Sluder, 81, passed away Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, at Pine Ridge Health and Rehab after a long illness.
A Celebration of Dot’s life will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Thomasville Funeral Home Chapel by Pastor Darrell Sluder Jr. Burial will follow in Holly Hill Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 11:30 a.m. until the service Tuesday.
Dot was born in Randolph County on Feb. 16, 1934, a daughter of David Theodore Kinley and Treva Hughes Kinley. She was a retired school bus driver with 30 years of service with the Davidson County Schools. Dot loved growing flowers and enjoyed working in her yard. She was preceded in death by her parents, sister Emma Jane Hunt and brother Homer Kinley. Alzheimer’s took Dot’s mind but not her love for her family.
Surviving are her husband of 55 years, Autry Sluder; daughter Debra Thompson and husband Greg; two sisters, Mary Magdaline McDowell and Shirley Saunders and her husband Lonnie; brother Benny Kinley and wife Lou; and numerous nieces and nephews.
A Celebration of Dot’s life will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Thomasville Funeral Home Chapel by Pastor Darrell Sluder Jr. Burial will follow in Holly Hill Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 11:30 a.m. until the service Tuesday.
Dot was born in Randolph County on Feb. 16, 1934, a daughter of David Theodore Kinley and Treva Hughes Kinley. She was a retired school bus driver with 30 years of service with the Davidson County Schools. Dot loved growing flowers and enjoyed working in her yard. She was preceded in death by her parents, sister Emma Jane Hunt and brother Homer Kinley. Alzheimer’s took Dot’s mind but not her love for her family.
Surviving are her husband of 55 years, Autry Sluder; daughter Debra Thompson and husband Greg; two sisters, Mary Magdaline McDowell and Shirley Saunders and her husband Lonnie; brother Benny Kinley and wife Lou; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Events
| Birth | 16 Feb 1934 | Randolph County, North Carolina, United States | |||
| Marriage | 7 Jan 1961 | Davidson County, NC - Autry Deward Sluder | |||
| Death | 21 Jan 2016 | Pine Ridge Health and Rehabilitation Center, Thomasville, Davidson, North Carolina, United States |  | ||
| Burial | 25 Jan 2916 | Holly Hill Cemetery, Thomasville, Davidson, North Carolina, United States |
Families
| Spouse | Autry Deward Sluder (1941 - ) |
| Child | Debra Sluder ( - ) |
| Father | David Theodore Kinley (1904 - 1993) |
| Mother | Treva Hughes (1907 - 1994) |
| Sibling | Mary Magdaline Kinley (1932 - 2018) |
| Sibling | Homer Lee Kinley (1936 - 1950) |
| Sibling | Benny Theodore Kinley (1939 - ) |
| Sibling | Emma Kinley (1941 - 2012) |
| Sibling | Shirley Ann Kinley (1944 - 2024) |
Endnotes
1. Death Notice: Lexington Dispatch.