When this life is over, Id like to feel Ive filled a needed post. Here, then I have paid my fare with more than idle talk and boast. Dorothy Hall Fowler Sheffey, 85, of Dublin, passed away Monday, January 9, 2012 at the Radford Nursing & Rehab. She was a member of Mtn. View United Methodist Church and was retired manager of Wallaces Smartwear. Dorothy was very active in the community and lived by the philosophy, You get out of anything what you put into it. She received numerous awards for her service in the community, her church, and the Republican Party. She was preceded in death by her parents Joseph and Alice Martin Hall, and husband, Elmer James Fowler. Survivors include her husband, Donald H. Sheffey of Dublin; daughter and son-in-law, Alice Fowler and Butch Buford of Dublin; son and daughter-in-law, Dennis James and Eva Fowler of Buena Vista; brother, Calvin Dexter Hall of Christiansburg; sister, Ester Soper of Winston-Salem, NC; sister-in-law, Thelma Hall of High Point, NC; stepdaughters and their spouses, Rhonda and Phil Moser of Oklahoma City, OK, and Sandra Kay and Brandon Clabes of Choctaw, OK; stepson, Donald Keith Sheffey of Midwest City, OK; four grandchildren, Lee Anna Shaheen, and Ashlea, Zachary and Jacob Fowler; great-granddaughter, Logan Surface; three step-grandchildren, Connie Moser, and Collin and Morgan Clabes; and a very special step-granddaughter, Gabriella Clabes. Special thanks to Carilion Hospice for their loving care. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 pm, Thursday, January 12, 2012 at the Mullins Funeral Home in Radford with Rev. Paul Goshorn officiating. Interment will follow in the Highland Memory Gardens in Dublin. The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Wednesday evening at the funeral home. The Sheffey family is in the care of Mullins Funeral Home & Crematory in Radford.