Florene  Dobesh

Florene (Byrum) Dobesh was born November 4, 1917 in Pettus, Arkansas to John Floyd and Edith Irene Byrum.  Florene married Joseph J. Dobesh on April 5, 1947 in Corinth, Mississippi.  Florene was a member of the Tyndall United Methodist Church where she was organist for 30 years.  She was past Matron of Elizabeth Chapter #54 (Tyndall), past Matron of Rachel Chapter #11 (Springfield), and a member of Keystone Chapter #33 (Yankton) Orders of Eastern Star.  She was a member of Tyndall P.E.O. Chapter AZ.  She was also a member of the American Legion Auxiliary in Tyndall.  Florene died on August 10, 2014 at the Tyndall Good Samaritan Center.
Survivors are her four daughters: Betty (Carl) Hall of Phoenix, Arizona, Donna (Ed) Garcia of Henderson, Nevada, Patricia Clarke of California, and Catherine Pesek of Peoria, Illinois; seven grandchildren:  Dennis Roberson, Steve Roberson, J. Frederick Roberson, E. Scott Garcia, Kelly A. (Garcia) Harris, Thomas Pesek, and Erin (Pesek) Cotton; and 15 great-grandchildren,  and one brother, Fritz Byrum.
Florene was preceded in death by her husband, Joe, her parents, Floyd and Irene Byrum, her brother, James Byrum, her sister, Fae Nelson, and her grandson, Michael Garcia.
Memorials may to be sent to the Tyndall Good Samaritan Society or the Tyndall United Methodist Church.

A private memorial service
will be held at a later date.