Lorena Dobbs

TYLER —

Funeral services for Lorena Dobbs, 96, of Tyler will be held on Saturday Nov. 16, 2024 at 10 AM at Jackson’s Burks Walker Tippit Funeral Home with interment to follow at Cathedral in the Pines Cemetery. Visitation will be held Friday Nov. 15 from 5 to 7 PM also at the funeral home. Rev. Kevin Burdette and Rev. Charles Dodson will officiate.

Lorena was born on October 31, 1928 on the family farm near Nacogdoches, TX. She was ushered into Paradise on November 9, 2024 in Tyler, TX, after a brief illness.

She attended the one room school at Eden, near Douglass, TX and then worked in the War effort in Nacogdoches during WWII.

In 1950, she married T C Dobbs Jr and became a homemaker. She was an expert seamstress, sewing clothes for herself and her sisters at a young age and then for her children. She was often recruited to sew costumes for the Nettie Marshall Spring Festival and sewed all her daughter’s high school uniforms.

In the 1980’s she went to work for an interior decorator, helping to decorate some of the lovely homes and businesses in Nacogdoches

She and T C retired to Tyler in 1990, joining her sisters and their spouses there. They enjoyed traveling to Nashville, TN together yearly, as well as trips to Colorado to visit their other sister. She loved attending the yearly Molandes Cousins Reunions in Nacogdoches.

She was a charter member of The Woods Baptist Church.

Lorena was an exceptional cook and loved hosting family holiday celebrations in her home. She loved canning, especially fresh vegetables from her garden and fruit preserves. Her pies and cakes were renowned among friends and family.

She was a member of the Nacogdoches Quilters’ Guild and then the Bizzy Bees Quilters in Tyler. Her beautiful quilts won many ribbons at the East Texas Fair.

Lorena was preceded in death by her husband T C and her parents Manuel and Effie Molandes. Her brothers Joe and Floyd Molandes, sisters Velma Miller and Jean Trautwein, daughter-in-law Ann Dobbs, parents-in-law T C Sr and Sallie Mae Arnold Dobbs, brothers-in-law Bill Miller, Billy Dobbs, Dave Trautwein, and sisters-in-law Margaret Hutchison, Kathryn Johnson, and Bennie Dale Fryman, and nephew Ed Miller all predeceased her.

Left to cherish her memory are her son Gary Dobbs, daughter Jan (Cal) Barton, grandchildren Stephen (Amanda) Dobbs, Cy Dobbs, Cam Whitaker, Cole Whitaker, Tom (Rebecca) Barton, and Kate (Aaron) McCorcle, sister Ruby Dobbs, great grandchildren Riley Dobbs, Kara Dobbs, Chad Pierce, Jackson Barton, June Barton, Ethan McCorcle, nephews Dan (Debbie) Miller, and Jody (Brenda) Dobbs, as well as a host of great and great-great nieces and nephews, and many beloved cousins.