Dorothy Pleasant

Clayton:  Mrs. Dorothy Lee Johnson Pleasant, age 91, died Friday morning at the SECU Hospice House in Smithfield.  Funeral services will be held Monday at 11:00AM at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Raleigh.  Rev. Michael Tolar will officiate.  Burial will follow in the Fellowship Church Cemetery.   Mrs. Pleasant was born May 24, 1924 in Wake County to the late Dewey Burton and Eliza Askew Langdon Johnson.  In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Violus Lawrence Pleasant; brothers, Walter Johnson and Artimus Johnson; and a great-granddaughter, Kasie Leigh Moore.  Mrs. Pleasant was a homemaker and helped her husband on the family farm.  She was a member of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Raleigh.   She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Barbara "Bobbie" and Ray Hatcher of Raleigh, Linda and Jerry Moore of Clayton, and Kathy and Danny Byrd of Clayton; son and daughter-in-law, Phillip Gene and Penny Pleasant of Angier; eight grandchildren; seventeen great-grandchildren; one step-great-grandson; two great-great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Family will receive friends Sunday from 6:00 - 8:00PM at Rose & Graham Funeral Home in Benson and at other times at the home of Linda and Jerry Moore.   Flowers are welcome or memorials may be directed to Mt. Moriah Baptist Church POD Fund, 3000 E. Garner Rd., Raleigh, NC 27610. Arrangements by Rose & Graham Funeral Home in Benson.  Online condolences may be expressed to the family at www.roseandgraham.com