DAWN CROPPER CHANDLER's Obituary
PERRY –
Dawn Liane Cropper Chandler, formerly of Dagsboro, Delaware, passed away peacefully on Sunday, October 2, 2022. She was 69. Visitation will be held on Friday, October 7, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. at Christ’s Sanctified Holy Church. Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, October 8, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. at Christ’s Sanctified Holy Church with interment in the Campground Cemetery immediately following the service. A Memorial Service will be held on Sunday, October 16, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. at the Frankford Volunteer Fire Hall, 7 Main Street, Frankford, Delaware, and a church service to follow at 4:00 p.m. at Christ’s Sanctified Holy Church, 30960 Omar Road, Frankford, Delaware.
Dawn was born in Salisbury, Maryland, to the late Elisha Curtis Cropper and the late Lina Elizabeth Lynch Cropper. She graduated from John M. Clayton High School in Frankford, Delaware, and attended Methodist College in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She lived most of her life in Dagsboro, Delaware. Her father was a farmer and a waterman who owned two oyster boats and founded Cropper Oyster Company and Gulls Way Campground. For years, Dawn worked side by side with her father and eventually became Vice-President and Co-Owner of both businesses. She was a long-time member of Christ’s Sanctified Holy Church and was instrumental in re-opening Omar Christ’s Sanctified Holy Church in Delaware. Through the years, Dawn enjoyed water sports and collected a large number of dolls that she delighted in finding and treasured. A major part of her life has been studying and learning the Lord’s word, which she did every single day that she was able. In 2021, Dawn and her husband moved to Perry to Christ’s Sanctified Holy Church where she was cared for at The Church Home.
Dawn was preceded in death by her parents; her son, Gary Francis Farmer, II; and her sister, Wanda Joy Cropper.
Left to cherish the memories they made with Dawn are her loving and devoted husband of seventeen years, Roy Chandler, Sr. of Perry; her children, John Elisha Beers (Cherise) of Laurel, Delaware, Cheri Mahaffey (Mike) of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, and Marty Chandler (Michelle) of Hanahan, South Carolina; her grandchildren, Jenna Beers, John W. Beers, Josiah Beers, Jediah Beers, Jeriah Beers, Chandler Mahaffey (Mackenie), Taylor-Grace Mahaffey, and Trace Chandler; her brother, Elisha Wayne Cropper, Sr. (Darlene); and several nieces, nephews, great-nieces, and great-nephews.
Condolences for the family may be left in the online guestbook at www.watsonhunt.com. Watson-Hunt Funeral Home has been entrusted with the arrangements.
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