Carrie Lee Dunson, daughter of the late Walter William Dunson and Roberta King Dunson Carmons, entered the world April 19, 1946 at Wheatley Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. She is survived by her mother, Brenda Dunson (sister), Jose Carmons (brother), Anthony Harris (son), Darren Harris(son), Jessica, Anthony, Khiana, Martisha, and Selena (grandchildren) and a host of loving relatives and loyal friends.
A woman of deep love of God, she loved gospel music, sound preaching, and she possessed a Luke 4:18 faith commitment working to ensure no one she knew was hungry, lonely, naked, homeless, grief stricken, sick or imprisoned. She tried to leave the world better than she found it even at high cost to her own comfort. She was also a member of The Order of Eastern Star, Star of Bethlehem #59 in Kansas City, Kansas.
Carrie had a love of reading, education, and educating others. She obtained an Associate of Art (Penn Valley), a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology, Lincoln University), a Master of Science and Education Specialist (University of Central Missouri, “Female Criminality: An Etiological Approach to Criminality), a Doctor of Philosophy (UMKC, “Relationships of Sex Roles, Orientation, Fear of Success in University Faculty”), Certified Nursing Assistant (UMC) and Graduate Certificate in Health Care Administration (Park University). Dr. Dunson worked as a Professor of Criminal Justice and an advisor for a number of student organizations (1974-2005, UCM). She volunteered at a number of national and local community, religious, and civic agencies including service as the Non-Profit Administrator for Greater Pentecostal Temple Local Area Network (2005-2011).
Carrie Lee Dunson was a phenomenal woman, a confidant, friend, and a gracious host. She loved people, dancing, listening, and singing along to Soul music, savoring a well-prepared meal, relishing a cold glass of wine, reading, sewing, collecting, creating beauty in the midst of destruction and ugly things, watching movies, traveling the world, at times laughing with abandon and the color purple.
She departed this life for her eternal home on March 1, 2020.
Her living was not in vain.
