Dorothy “Dot” Beggs Alligood, 85, of Fitzgerald died Sunday, February 11 at the Life Care Center in Fitzgerald.
Funeral services will be held 3 PM, Tuesday, February 13 at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel, Fitzgerald with Rev. Kelly Brown officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour before the service at the funeral home.
Mrs. Alligood was born January 19, 1922, in Gainesville, Florida, to the late James Smith “Jim” and Willie Belle Golding Beggs. She lived in the community since 1946 and was a former resident of Thomasville and Albany. Mrs. Alligood was a former employee for the State of Florida in Tallahassee, FL and of Friedlander’s Department Store in Fitzgerald. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, the Genesis Sunday School Class, the W.M.U. and a former G.A. Leader. Mrs. Alligood was a former member of the Cherokee Garden Club. She was a loving mother and grandmother who looked out for her family.
She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Kay A. & Ron Hannon and Earlene A. & Larry Troupe, all of Fitzgerald; grandchildren, Jay Paulk, Lyn Duernberger, Suzanne New, Dru Hannon, Troy Troupe and JoAnna Johnson; great-grandchildren, Spencer Troupe, Mckenzie Troupe, Mary Ellen Troupe, Austin Johnson, Nate Henderson, Pressley Paulk, Ty Paulk, Brayden Hannon, Austin Hannon, Landon New, Conner James, Chandler James, Landon Duernberger and Bailee Duernberger; sister, Betty Thurner of Naples, FL; sisters-in-law, Joyce Dale Alligood Roy of Danville, KY, and Lorene Alligood Rogers of Ocilla. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Earl Alligood.
The family suggests that in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to the Blue-Gray Community Hospice, P.O., Box 1447, Fitzgerald, GA 31750.