Dorothy Arnell Jeter

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, May 17, 2012, in the Chapel of Dutton Funeral Home, Iowa Park, with Rev. Clifton McFadden officiating. Burial will follow in Highland Cemetery, Iowa Park, under the direction of Dutton Funeral Home.

Dorothy was born August 2, 1922 in Odell, Texas, to Elmer Ernest Kuykendall and Ethel May (Pettey) Kuykendall. She graduated high school in San Antonio, Texas and received a degree in sociology from the University of Maryland. She was a counselor in a chaplain’s office for 17 years and had also worked as a clerk in a dress shop. She married Alvin E. Jeter on May 21, 1977, in Iowa Park. He preceded her in death April 21, 2011. She was a member of Word of Grace Church, Iowa Park.

Survivors include a son, Ernest S. Goff of Mississippi; daughter-in-law, DeAnna Stansbury, of Iowa Park; two stepdaughters, Carole Neussen of Texas and Yvette Treat of California; a stepson, Darwin Jeter, of California; a brother, Alton E. Kuykendall of Stockdale, Texas; a sister, Frances Gail Thomas of Texas; two granddaughters, Lenora A. Goff and Leslie D. Beam, and grandchildren, Jimmy and Jeff Stansbury, both of Iowa Park, Jerry Stansbury of Rockwall, Texas, and Kim Neal of Dover, Delaware; two great granddaughters and one great grandson.