Dorothy Ann Sampson / March 22, 1936-Feb. 23, 2008
Published 3:45 am Thursday, February 28, 2008
By Staff
Dorothy Ann Sampson, 71, of Tharp Lake Road, Edwardsburg, died at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008, at Elkhart, General Hospital, Elkhart, Ind., after an illness.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 27, at the Connelly Funeral Home, Cassopolis, with the Rev. Mark Johnson, pastor of Life Tabernacle Church, Elkhart, Ind., officiating. Visitation was held on Tuesday, from 5 to 8 p.m. in the funeral home.
Burial was in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Cassopolis.
She was born on March 27, 1936, in Waukarusa, Ind., to Jay Batson and Valeria M. (Fisher) Batson.
She was a homemaker and lifetime area resident.
On Aug. 21, 1953, in South Bend, Ind., she married Richard D. Sampson, Sr., who survives.
Additional surviving family includes a daughter, Faith (Scott) Bosworth; a son, Dennis Sampson of Edwardsburg; seven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren and a sister, Esther Murphy of Cooksville, Tenn.
She was preceded in dead by a son, Richard D. Sampson, Jr., who died on July 26, 1990 and three brothers, Jay Batson, Carl Batson and Harry Batson.
Arrangements were by Connelly Funeral Home, Cassopolis.