Dorothy Van Meter Stanton (Hartman); Age 94, Died March 24, 2022. Born in Philadelphia, PA in 1927,
Dottie moved to Tampa Bay Area in her teens. Dottie attended Florida State College for Women and
was a Kappa Delta. After marrying and having two children, she received her B.A. from Goshen College,
Indiana, served as a teaching missionary in the Brazilian jungle. Dottie returned to Tampa in 1960, when
she and her mother, Athena M. Stanton joined the Daughters of the American Revolution. Dottie taught
in Hillsborough Public Schools. After receiving her M.A. in Counseling from USF, Dottie was a founding
counselor at the new Hillsborough Community College and then a private Christian counselor.
Along with her family, Dottie spent 21 years teaching and supporting the growth of the Community
church on Davis Islands. In 1979 during the Billy Graham Crusade preparation, she began a Bible Study
in the Feather Sound development in Clearwater. Within a year, Feather Sound Community Church was formed.
In the early 1990s, Dottie retired to Weaverville, NC.
Since 1995 Dottie lived with her loving children in California, Alaska and Florida. She continued
attending church and singing in her church choirs, as she had done since early childhood.
She was an active member in Seminole First Baptist church and loved her Sunday School class.
Dottie was preceded in death by her parents Frank W. and Athena M. Stanton.
Survived by her sister Evelyn Stanton Grain (North Carolina) and her four children and brother Major
(Ret.) Frank W. (Miriam) Stanton, III (Texas) and his three children. She had five children, four beloved
in-law children, eleven grandchildren, and eighteen great-grandchildren. Her children are Mark (Jayne)
Hartman, Bethany (Mike) Felix, Judy (Tom) Godfrey, Deborah DeRossett, and Susanna (Dave) Poucher.
A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, March 29 at 3:00 pm at Seminole First Baptist Church,
11045 Park Boulevard N, Seminole, FL 33772.
Memorial donations may be made in Dottie's honor to Wounded Warrior Project at
support.woundedwarriorproject.org