Dorothy "Dot" Stanford Duke 82 of Bartow passed away on Monday, July 30, 2012 from complications of Lymphoma at Winter Haven Hospital. Born in Loretta, TN, she moved to Bartow from Anniston, AL in 1946. Dot was a homemaker and also worked as a housekeeper in Bartow. She was of the Pentecostal Faith. She was preceded in death by a daughter Sandra Faye Carroll and a infant son: Charles Vermon Duke. Dot is survived by her husband of sixty six years Joseph Vermon Duke. Son: Ronald A. Duke and wife Janice. Daughter: Charlotte R. Purvis and husband David all of Bartow. Brother: Joe Edward Stanford of Ellijay, GA; nine grandchildren & twenty one great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. Funeral services will be held Friday, August 3rd at 10am at Whidden-McLean Funeral Home in Bartow with burial to follow at Wildwood Cemetery.