Dora Bates Trexler

Matthews - Mrs. Dora Bates Trexler, 88, formerly of Wadesboro, passed peacefully from this life to the next on Monday, April 10, 2017, while a resident at Brookdale Weddington Park. Funeral services will be 4:00PM Saturday at Leavitt Funeral Home in Wadesboro. Interment will follow in Anson Memorial Park. The family will greet friends prior to the service beginning at 3:00PM. Born in Anson County on March 12, 1929, Dora was the eighth of nine children blessed to Thomas Dixon and Elizabeth Ewers Bates. The entire family had a great love and talent for music and by the time Dora was seven years old, she was singing in church. At the age of fourteen, she was playing regularly for services at her familys beloved North Wadesboro Baptist Church. Her love of music along with a knack for creative writing were gifts Dora used throughout her life to entertain others and share her strong faith. Dora attended Wadesboro High School and would go on to marry Wallace R. Trexler, also of Anson County. Dora enjoyed a long career as a secretary, bookkeeper and even executive secretary for several private businesses over the years. She was a wonderful homemaker, seamstress and cook and was renowned for her potato salad, fudge, pickles and fig preserves. Her talent for sewing was evident in the many beautiful clothes she made for her children and for her childrens baby dolls! Survivors include three children, Jane T. Frye (Jeff), Lynn Coppersmith, and Ray Trexler Jr.; four grandchildren, Jennifer (Carroll) Gayton, Jamie (Marcin) Grucela, Josh Frye, and Emily Coppersmith; and six great-grandchildren, John Morgan Gayton, Grant Gayton, Gabriel Grucela, Charlotte Grucela, Aaron Grucela, and Jonah Baum. In addition to her parents, Dora was preceded in death by her husband and all eight of her brothers and sisters whom she dearly looked forward to seeing again in heaven one day. The family suggests memorials be made to Hospice and Palliative Care Charlotte Region, 1420 E. Seventh St., Charlotte, NC 28204. Visitation Leavitt Funeral Home Saturday April 15th, 2017 3:00pm - 4:00pm 2036 Morven Road Wadesboro, NC 28170 Funeral Service Leavitt Funeral Home Saturday April 15th, 2017 4:00pm 2036 Morven Road Wadesboro, NC 28170