Dorotha Mildred Turk Sanders

Dorotha Mildred Turk Sanders, age 75 of Auburn, passed away on Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at Northeast Georgia Medical Center following an extended illness.


Funeral services are scheduled for Friday, March 14, 2014 at 1:00 pm in the Chapel of Memorial Park Funeral Home with interment to follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. Reverend Scott Wilson and Reverend Matt Calvert will officiate. The family will receive friends on Thursday, March 13, 2014 from 5 - 9 pm at the funeral home.


Mrs. Sanders was born March 24, 1938 in Davidson, North Carolina to the late Everett Lec Turk and Blanche Duncan Turk. She was a homemaker and a member of Zion Hill Baptist Church. Dorotha was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Henry O'Dell Sanders, her son, Craig Everett Sanders and her sister, Marie Thompson.


Mrs. Sanders is survived by her daughter & son-in-law, Connie Sanders & Mike Garner of Great Falls, South Carolina, son, Terry O'Dell Sanders of Buford, daughter & son-in-law, Cindy Sanders & Doug Elrod of Auburn, Georgia, grandchildren, Courtney Elrod & Matthew Jarrett, Caleb Elrod, Natalie Garner, Thomas Garner, Joseph Sanders and Zack Sanders, her sister, Betty Anglin of Gainesville and her brother, Arvin Turk of Gainesville.