Pauline Cricket Dillard | Obituary

Pauline Cricket Dillard, 85, of Dalton, died Sunday, April 16, 2023.

Cricket was a Methodist faith. He started playing the piano at the age of 14 and played in various churches for 67 years. He has played the piano at two different churches for Sunday services for several years.

She was preceded in death by her husband, RL Dillard; son Bobby Dillard; parents, Virgil and Magdaline Dean Brock; sisters, Bertha Lee Thornton, Minnie Duncan, Dessie McCurdy, Beatrice Kilgore; mother-in-law Pauline Dickson Dillard; father-in-law Earl Dillard.

She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Brad and Kelly Dillard; a daughter, Brenda Horton, both of Armurchee; a daughter and son-in-law, Beverly and Ray Morgan of Dalton; daughter-in-law Ellen Dillard; sisters Isabell Gilbert and Lois Patterson; grandchildren and spouses, Ashley and Andrew Hoban, GW and Tiffany Horton, Anthony and Renae Dillard, Felicia Dorgham, Richard “Bubba” and Shannon Rogers, Rodney and Tiffanie Rogers, Emily Rogers, Brock Dillard, Maggie Dillard, Clay and Jessica Sutton; eighteen great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren; brother-in-law Junior McCurdy; legal counsel, Margaret Todd, Morrean Dillard, Carolyn Dillard and Sue Dillard; several nieces, nephews and cousins ​​also survive.

A service to celebrate Cricket Dillard’s life will be held Thursday, April 20, 2023 at 4 p.m. in the chapel of Shawn Chapman Funeral Home with Reverend Gordon DeLashmitt officiating. Burial will be in Brock Cemetery (Pine Grove). The family will receive family and friends at the funeral home on April 20, 2023 from 2 to 4 p.m. The family respectfully requests that no food be brought to the funeral home. Follow social distancing rules.

Arrangements courtesy of Shawn Chapman Funeral Home, Crematory & Monument.

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