Dolores Barton Dial, of 425 Dial Road in the Antioch Community in Hoke County, departed this life on March 9, 2015 at Wesley Pines Retirement Community in Lumberton.
She grew up on a farm with her large family. She was well known for her pumpkin pies, fruit cakes, collards, pound cakes, chitterlings and souse meat (head cheese).
She loved her family and she loved her flowers, particularly roses.
She was preceded in death by her husband (Mr. Peter Dial, Jr.); her parents, Wardell and Lizzy Barton; two brothers, George Lloyd and Royal "Pap" Barton; and one sister, Wendy Barton. She is survived by one son, Peter Anthony Dial, III of Rolesville; four daughters, Heather Kimberly Dial Sellers and her husband Justin of Apex, Amy Dial Rice of Charlotte,Cynthia Dolores Dial of Salisbury, and Lana Dial of Raleigh; four grandchildren; three brothers, Paul Barton of Pembroke, Wardell "Buckey" Barton Jr., of Wagram, and Beachmond "Beach" Barton of Coatesville, Pennsylvania.; eight sisters, Helen Locklear and Peggy Hunt of Pembroke, Emma Jane Brewer of Fayetteville;, Mabel D. Locklear of Lumberton, and Doris Barton, Sally Ann Bullard, Mary Ann Graham and Linda Barton Dial of Maxton.
The family will receive friends at Locklear & Son Funeral Home, 916 Union Chapel Road, Pembroke, on Friday, March 13, 2015 from6-8 p.m.. A graveside service will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 14 at Dundarrach Baptist Church, 875 Hall Road, Shannon, with the Rev. Manford Locklear officiating.
The family requests donations be made to Dundarrach Baptist Church, Burnt Swamp Baptist Association or to a charity of your choice in lieu of flowers in her memory.
Services have been entrusted to Locklear and Son of Pembroke, NC.