Dorothy Smith Sharp "Dot" Morris

A memorial service will be held Tuesday at two o’clock in the afternoon at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. Inurnment will follow in the church columbarium. Friends will be received following the service in the Haywood Duke Room.

Dot was born July 20, 1930 in Atlanta, GA, the daughter of Lois Kinard Smith and Herbert Wells Smith.

In 1948, she graduated from the Napsonion School in Atlanta, GA, then attended Wesleyan College in Macon, GA for one year. She married Tom Sharp, MD and had two sons. Her residences include Marietta, GA, Pensacola, FL, Chapel Hill, Sendai, Japan and Dublin, GA. Widowed, she returned to Atlanta, GA, where she graduated from Oglethorpe University. Also in 1965 she married John Allen Morris, Jr. who adopted her sons, David Wells Sharp and Lawrence Thomas Sharp.

While living in Sendai, Japan, Dot taught at the Mishima High School for Girls. She later taught in elementary schools in Atlanta, GA and Greensboro. In 1979 she received her NC real estate broker’s license and worked for Ann Allen & Associates of Greensboro for a short time before moving to Chapel Hill. While living in Chapel Hill, she and six other women founded The Home Team Real Estate Company. In 1993 she retired and moved to Clinton, SC. In 2001 she returned to Greensboro with her husband, Allen. Dot was a member of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church and the North Carolina Writers Network. She loved and was enriched by her family and friends. She also enjoyed playing tennis, golf and bridge. Throughout her life her avocation was writing poetry and fiction.

Surviving are her husband, John Allen Morris, Jr.; son, David Wells Sharp, his children: Liedeke Allyn Sharp and her son Levi Michael Putnam, and Michael Christian Sharp; son, Lawrence Thomas Sharp and wife Sandra Holt Sharp, their daughter, Jesse Sharp; son, John Allen Morris, III and wife Lisa Elkins Morris, their children: John Allen Morris IV and Paige Elkins Morris; step-daughter, Catherine Morris Berry and husband David Berry, their son, Skyler Laforge.

In lieu of customary remembrances, the family requests with gratitude that memorials in Dot’s name be made to Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Morris Tennis Scholarship Fund at Presbyterian College and Hospice and Palliative Care of Greensboro. The family wishes to express their sincere gratitude to the health care unit at Well Spring Retirement Community for their care given to Dot over the last several months.

Online condolences may be made at www.haneslineberryfuneralhomes.com.