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Nana Mae Dodds was born to James and Esther Wright on July 11, 1939, in Camden, Arkansas. She went home to Heaven on January 26, 2023, from Muskogee, Oklahoma after a brief illness. She was 83. She died quietly as surrounding family sang hymns of comfort and peace.
She was preceded in death by her parents, by a younger sister and husband, Karen and Perry Johnson of Camden, Arkansas, and in 2010, by her husband of over fifty years, Arlon E. Dodds.
She is survived by her son, Trent A. Dodds and wife Debbie of Searcy, Arkansas; her daughter, Tonya and husband Rob Wallace of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma; and her daughter, Tyra and husband Terry Phillips of Conway, Arkansas; eight grandchildren; and three great-grand-children.
Nana was baptized into Christ in her teens. She and Arlon were members of the Cullendale Church of Christ in Fairview, Arkansas until Arlon's death in 2010. She has been a member of the Fort Gibson Church of Christ in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma since relocating there after Arlon's death. Nana was active in the congregation's prison ministry where she taught bible classes in person and by correspondence to the inmates at the Eddie Warrior Women's Facility of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. She was an avid reader and spent countless hours writing notes of encouragement to the ladies at the prison and to other members of the congregation. She was constantly in contact with her ladies' group and with friends from Camden.
Nana graduated from Fairview High School in 1957. She was a retail clothier having owned her own dress shops in Camden, Arkansas. She was an avid collector and trader of antique furniture, Grapette glassware, and Camark pottery.
In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Fort Gibson Church of Christ prison ministry.
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