Garnette Lou Dorsey

Garnette L. Dorsey (Knotts)

Garnette L. Dorsey passed away March 16, 2024. She was born July 10, 1930 in Minnora, West Virginia. She was employed as an executive secretary at Evans Savings Association and for the dean of the history department at The University of Akron. She was a member of First United Methodist Church of Akron since April 1957, where her children grew up in the Christian community and where she served on many committees and the administrative council. She volunteered at the Tuesday free lunch beginning in 1987. She supported the church and keystone Sunday school class in every way she could.

Garnette was preceded in death by her husband, James T.; son Stephen; parents Harley and Thelma Knotts; brothers Marshal, Edgar and Matthew Knotts; sisters Phyllis Hale and Dorothy Toth; son in law James Alverson; nephews Mark Knotts, Scott Dillon and Harold Lindsey who was a Vietnam cancer casualty; brothers in law Steve Toth, Jr, Harley Gunderson, and Robert J. Dillon; and sister in law Nancy Knotts.

Garnette is survived by her children Michael (Andrea) and Debra Dorsey Alverson: grandchildren Christopher, Sarah Wirt (Dennis), Jacquelyn Weber (Jacob), and Jenelle Alverson; great grandchildren Jeffrey Fowler Jr, Lila Wirt, Penelope and Maxwell Weber; sisters Mary Gunderson and Judith Dillon; and many nieces and nephews.

Friends may call at visiting hours Saturday, March 23, 2024 from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM at Adams Mason Funeral Home (791 East Market Street), where funeral services will immediately follow at 1:00 PM.  All are invited to a meal immediately following at First United Methodist Church, 263 E Mill St., Akron, OH.  Garnette will be laid to rest with her husband at Hillside Memorial Park.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Garnette's childhood church that her grandfather Edward C. Knotts had built in 1871: mailing address at Minnora United Methodist Church, Pastor Timothy A. Hickman, 1985 Nobe Rd, Big Springs, WV 26137 or call 304-354-7365.  Arrangements entrusted to Adams Mason Funeral Home (330) 535-9186