Dorothy Irene Rowell, 79, of Fitzgerald Georgia, died Thursday, November 3, 2022, at Pruitt Health Care in Fitzgerald, Georgia.
Private services will be held at a later date.
Ms. Rowell was born September 20, 1943, in Iowa, to the late Walter Joseph John Staniford, Jr. & Violet Ilean Hollins Staniford. She was a homemaker and she loved to read, window shop, walk and cook. Ms. Rowell loved honeybuns and graham crackers.
She is survived by her three children: John Bernard Benefield, III of Kentucky, Cheryl Diane Benefield Irvin & James of Iowa and Dorothy Denese Williams & Matthew Leon of Fitzgerald; nine grandchildren; thirteen great-grandchildren; a sister, Nancy Skipton of California and a brother, Roger Staniford of Iowa. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Paul Staniford.