Margaret Dortch

MRS. MARGARET DORTCHMrs. Margaret Anderton Dortch, 82, died Tuesday, October 29, 2002, at Richland Health Care Center in Nashville, Tennessee. A graveside service will be conducted Friday at 1:00 P.M. at St. John's Churchyard, Ashwood, with The Rev. Edwin C. Coleman officiating. Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home in Columbia, Tennessee is in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be made to Monteagle Sunday School Assembly, P. O. Box 307, Monteagle, TN 37356, St. John's Episcopal Church, c/o Edward Green, 2999 Pulaski Pike, Columbia, TN 38401, or St. George's Episcopal Church, 4715 Harding Road, Nashville, TN 37205. Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1919, Mrs. Dortch was the daughter of the late Edward Covey Anderton and Virginia Cauthorne Anderton. Mrs. Dortch graduated from St. Margaret's School in Tappahannock, Virginia and attended SweetBriar College in SweetBriar, Virginia. In 1940, she married O. Lawrence Dortch, who preceded her in death on November 20, 1991. After World War II, the couple settled in Nashville, where Mr. Dortch joined the law firm that is now Waller Lansden Dortch and Davis. Mrs. Dortch was a member of the Junior League of Nashville, the Garden Club of Nashville, the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, St. George's Episcopal Church, James K. Polk Memorial Association, and the Belle Meade Country Club. For the last thirty years of her life, Mrs. Dortch enjoyed her membership in the Monteagle Sunday Sunday School Assembly. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Dortch (William) Brooks of Nashville; Mrs. Louise Dortch (William) Blair of Brentwood; five grandchildren, Virginia Brooks Robinson of San Francisco, California; William Harbison Brooks of Atlanta, Georgia; William Lawrence Blair of Nashville; Margaret Blair Passink of Birmingham, Alabama; and James Andrew Blair of Brentwood.