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INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE VOICE OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

First Published in 1994

INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE VOICE OF
UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

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On Monday, March 17th, the usually ordinary activity of doll making was briefly set aside.  The ladies chose St. Patrick’s Day to celebrate the 99th birthday of one of their most diligent workers, Dot Breazeale.  She has been a member of Taylors First Baptist Church since 1959, and is active in the Global Missions Group.  In early 2010, a meeting devoted to local mission activities featured a lady from Berea First Baptist Church with a sample cloth doll they sent to children in foreign countries to tell about Jesus.  Tricia Phillips and several ladies, including Dot, went to Berea First Baptist, where they learned to make the dolls.

Dot learned her sewing skills as a young girl from her mother in Fountain Inn making dresses and shirts  from grain sacks, for her brothers and sisters.  Before long, she took a correspondence course in drapery making and worked in a drapery shop in Greenville.  After her marriage, she had no children, and set up her own shop in the back of her home where she made draperies and bed spreads for some 40 years.  Sewing has been her life.

When the doll workshop was inaugurated at Taylors First Baptist Church, Dot was among the first to help create the soft lovable girl dolls with yarn pigtails, or boys with crop tops, all with painted faces.  She is an inspiration to many younger women of the church, who think they “can’t do” until they see  how much she “can do.”  She is a great example of witness of an older woman in the church to the younger ones.  She cares about those who don’t know the Lord as their personal Savior, as these dolls go with missionaries to change that.

 

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