OBITUARIES

Dorothy Alyene Reese, age 74 of Gatlinburg, passed away Monday, March 27, 2006. As a pediatrician and founder of the Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic, she bettered the lives of thousands of medically indigent residents of the Smoky Mountains region. A graduate of the University of Montevallo and the University of Alabama Medical School, she served her pediatric residency at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, LA, and practiced medicine at Partlow State School from 1958 to 1960. She established a private pediatric practice in Tuscaloosa, AL, and after 32 years of practice retired to Gatlinburg. She was a member of First Baptist Church, Gatlinburg.
She was preceded in death by her parents Carl J. and Ollie Bailey Reese and by lifelong friend Billie Sue Brown.
She is survived by her sister and brother-in-law Elizabeth Reese and Rev. Kyle Glenn; niece Ginger Brannon and her husband Greg and their son Reese; niece Margueritte Pritchett and her husband Steve and their children; nephew Bob Glenn and his wife Laurie and their children Lisa, Katie, and Carl; and a large beloved extended family, including especially Sue Ellen Riddle, Mark and Sharon Brown and adoptive grandchildren Meredith and John Mark Brown, Carlton and Marlys Brown, the staff and volunteers of Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic, Vern, Lisa, and Woods Hippensteal, Glenn and John Ingouf, Jim Ogle and son John Dale Ogle, Annette Ogle, David and Mindy Ogle, Bob and Rhonda Powell, Sarah and Harry Valentine and their children Katie and Dustin, Lester and Dot Barker, Minda and Corey Cedeno, Glenn Bogart and the staff at Pi Beta Phi Elementary School, Phillip and Maryetta Guin; the staff and physicians of Tuscaloosa Pediatrics, Dr. Pete Trice, the staff and physicians of Druid City Hospital, the church families at Emmanuel Baptist Church and Northport Baptist Church in Alabama, and her beloved dogs Molly and Meg.
Special thanks to Dr. Victor Salter, Jennifer Coumler, and Dr. Gene Baker for their loving care and friendship during the last several months of Alyene’s life.
Additional thanks to the wonderful nurses on the 7th Floor of Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center for their attentive care and to the staff at Pulmonary Associates of Knoxville.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Patient Emergency Fund or the New Full-Time Dentist Fund at the Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic, P.O. Box 5937, Sevierville, TN 37864.
Memorial service 2 PM Thursday at First Baptist Church, Gatlinburg, with Rev. Larry Burcham officiating. Honorary pallbearers will be the past and present board of directors of the Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic. (www.atchleyfuneralhome.com)

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