Dorothy Dell Newton died at home at 9:45 p.m. Friday.

Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Peaceful Gardens Memorial Park at Woodrow  with Pastor Ted  Currington of West Texas Church at the Barn officiating. Visitation will be 6-7 p.m. Sunday at Sanders Funeral Home, 1420-Main Street, Downtown Lubbock.

Dorothy was born March 29, 1922, in Roosevelt County, NM, to Joe W. and Laura Hammers Cook.  She attended Lubbock High School.  Dorothy and George C. Newton met in Lubbock July 4, 1938, and married in Clovis, NM, July 3, 1940.  George died May 21, 2002.

                Dorothy and George were best friends and enjoyed doing things together, bowling, square dancing, playing canasta and bridge, dominos and chicken feet , and even remodeling houses.  He didn’t cook and she didn’t roof houses.

                Dorothy is survived by three children, all of Lubbock:  Sandra Newton, Gary Newton  and Bennie Bristow.  Also surviving is their first “daughter,” Ann Nicholas and her husband Bobby of San Antonio, and their fourth “daughter,” Gary’s wife Carolyn.

She is survived by four grandchildren, Wade Newton and wife D’Ana, Angela Bristow, Stacey Newton, all of Lubbock; and Benjamin Bristow of Whiteface.

Her eight surviving great-grandchildren are Dakota Newton; Coleman, Abbigail and Lillian Newton; and Emmie Bristow, all of Lubbock; and Deajay Harrelson, Bryan Bristow and Lydia Dell Bristow, all of Whiteface.

When Dorothy wanted to know how to do something, she learned to do it.  She was graduated from Isbell Powell Beauty School in 1960 and worked several years as a hairdresser.  She apprenticed herself to Fayola Byrd and learned to make custom draperies and curtains for business clients and her many friends and family.  She learned to beautifully upholster furniture. Her other handiworks included crocheted “Barbie ball gowns,” tablecloths and bedspreads; hand-quilted baby quilts; and lots of cross-stitched spreads, tablecloths and napkins.

Dorothy became an ACBL Life Master duplicate bridge player assisted by partners Velda Holcomb, Doris Clemmons and Karen Wilson, all of Lubbock; and the late Ailene Shannon, Irma Baker and Helen Hufstedler; and many others.

                The family suggests memorials to Hospice of Lubbock, 1102 Slide Road #3, Lubbock, TX 79416 or Meals on Wheels of Lubbock, 2304-34th. Street, Lubbock, TX 79411.