Amory
Dorothy K. "Dot" Forbus
1940 — 2022
Dorothy K. "Dot" Forbus, 81, of Amory, Mississippi, died Tuesday, May 17, in Franklin, Tennessee. Visitation will be 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 21, 2022, at First Baptist Church of Amory. The service will follow. Years ago, Dot read an austere obituary, and declared to her family, "I want my obit to say more than 'She was a Baptist and a homemaker!'" And while she was both an impeccable homemaker and a steadfast Baptist, that may well be the least one could say about Dot Forbus. A preacher's daughter, Dot loved old hymns and Christmas music, as well as Il Divo, the operatic quartet and the a cappella group Pentatonix. She loved detail and beauty, and pursued those ends with her uncanny...