Josephine Dotson Mullins

Josephine "Baby Jo" Dotson Mullins, 79, of Hillview Drive, died Monday, Oct. 30, 2006, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem after a critical illness of three weeks. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Davidson Funeral Home, Lexington Chapel, by Bishop Michael L. Johnson. Burial will be in Lexington City Cemetery. Mrs. Mullins was born April 22, 1927, in Jenkins, Ky., to Frank Dotson and Martha Adkins Dotson. She was a retired seamstress and homemaker and a member of The Church of God of Prophecy in Lexington. She was preceded in death by her parents; two infant sisters, Edra and Inez Dotson; a sister, Edith Stallard, and two brothers, Russell and Richard Dotson. Surviving are her husband, Willie I. Mullins of the home; two daughters, Claudiette Dills of Lexington and Carolyn Horton of Kernersville; five special grandchildren, Daniel Kevin Sadler, Melissa Weaver and her husband, Rusty, Gary Shawn Cutlip, Aaron Edward Gray and Candace Lauren Gray; two special great-grandchildren, Savannah Madison Cutlip and Eugene Russell Weaver IV; three sisters, Marie Yates of Coeburn, Va., Emma Jean Felty of Independence, Va., and Georgia Hamilton of Perryville, Md.; several nieces and nephews; and four special friends, Richard Floyd, Jeanette Cooper and Claude and Ruth Ann Peters. The family will receive friends at Davidson Funeral Home in Lexington from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday and other times at the home. Memorials should be directed to Piedmont Home Care, 100 E. Ninth St., Lexington, NC 27292, or The Church of God of Prophecy, 436 Frontier Drive, Lexington, NC 27292.