Dorothy M. Potter

Tuesday, November 27, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. at Waters Funeral Chapel, 500 S. Main Street in Vandalia, Missouri 63382.
Officiating will be: Rev. Bob Balwanz.
Music provided by: Shirley Forgy - pianist.
Interment will be in the Evergreen Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Vandalia, Missouri.
Pallbearers: Robert Dubbert, Gary Nolan, Kenneth Herlinger, Bob Jerman, Burton Hopke and Bruce Johnson.

Dorothy M. (Nuckles) Potter passed away at 7:12 p.m. on Friday, November 23, 2007 at the Tri-County Care Center in Vandalia, Missouri. Dorothy attended area schools and was a member of the Mt. Olivet Presbyterian Church. She was a housekeeper at the Occidental College for many years prior to her retirement. Dorothy moved back to the Vandalia area in 1979 from Highland Park, California. She will be lovingly remembered by all for her dimpled smile and generous sense of humor. Dorthy enjoyed playing cards, camping and traveling. Dorothy was a member of the Eastern Star.

Born: September 19, 1918 in Vandalia, Missouri the daughter of Charlie and Myrtle (Potter) Nuckles.

Married: Colliss W. Potter on June 9, 1936 in DeLand, Florida; he survives.

Survivors include: husband, Colliss of Vandalia, Missouri; one daughter, Sylvia Jean Barnett of Vandalia; two brothers, Harold and wife, Marjorie Nuckles of rural Vandalia and Richard and Joyce Nuckles of Bakersfield, California; two granddaughters, three great-grandchildren and three generations of nieces and nephews..

Preceded in death by: one son, Eugene Beck; one brother, Bill Nuckles.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are encouraged to the Mt. Olivet Presbyterian Church in care of Waters Funeral Chapel, P O Box 84, Vandalia, Missouri 63382-0084.