Dorothy (Dot) Faye Hayes Kinney was born on 14 May 1926 in Greensboro, Georgia and passed away in Zephyrhills, Florida on 2 February 2024.
Dorothy was an Army Wife who accompanied her husband LTC Howard D Kinney JR on both stateside assignments to Fort Campbell, KY, Fort Bragg, NC, Fort Monroe, VA and overseas assignments to Okinawa, Japan and Bogota, Colombia. Dot was club champion on numerous occasions for the ladies golf groups in FT Bragg, NC, Bogota, Colombia and FT McPherson, GA. She had three holes in one and was a much better golfer than either her husband Howard or her son Dreher. She spoke Spanish and thoroughly enjoyed her overseas time in both Japan and Colombia.
She will be interned in Arlington National Cemetery in plot 64 4452 with "Kin" (Howard).
Dot is survived by her son LTC, SF, US Army Retired H Dreher Kinney Ill and wife Maria Lucia of Dade City, FL and daughter Patricia Lynne Crawford and husband Robert of Houston, TX and third generation US Army Paratrooper grandson Chantz Faulkner and wife Jada of Alamogordo, NM, granddaughter Cari Crawford of Houston, TX, step grandson Daniel de la Guardia of Orlando, FL. She was preceded in death by her grandson Ian Dreher Kinney of Knoxville, TN, husband LTC Howard D Kinney Jr of Atlanta, GA, and as the oldest surviving sibling, her parents and eight brothers and sisters.