Dorothy Jean Burgin was born on October 28, 1946 in St. Louis, Missouri, the seventh of ten children born into the Holy Matrimony of Calvin and Ruth Moore. She received her elementary and middle school education from Simmons School and later received her high school diploma in 1964 from Sumner High School. After watching the movies, A Distant Thunder & A Thief in the Night, Dorothy accepted JESUS as her Lord and Savior, was baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost in 1978.
Dorothy started her professional career working many years at Angelica Uniform Company, Greenberg Insurance Company, and Warner Cable Company. She later worked in the airline industry, retiring from American Airlines after more than 23 years of exceptional service. She received various awards and recognitions for her outstanding customer service. During her tenure in the airline industry, she lived in several cities, including St. Louis, Kansas City and later retiring in 2008 in Dallas, Texas.
Dorothy traveled extensively throughout the United States, went on a countless number of cruises and her favorite destination was Athens, Greece.
Wherever she went, she unashamedly and boldly spread The Word of GOD. “PRAISE THE LORD”! Dorothy was a Sunday school teacher, an evangelist, and she was mostly known for her dynamic teachings of, “BLACK PRESENCE IN THE BIBLE”.
In 2008, Dorothy became an entrepreneur by forming her own company named, Body Manna by Dorothy. Body Manna is an amazing body cream that she created which works wonders on many difficult to treat skin conditions. It is sold all around the United States.
While in St. Louis, Dorothy was a faithful member of Miracle Temple Fellowship currently named Christian Faith Center Church. In Kansas City, she was a long time member of Christian Tabernacle COGIC. Dorothy’s final place of worship was The Potter’s House in Dallas, Texas, where she was a faithful member and graduated from The Potter’s Institute in 2004.
JESUS was the most important person in her life. Her pride and joy was reserved for her daughter whom she loved and cherished, and affectionately nicked named Lady, her sweet sweet son-in-law, Stanton and the apple of her eye was her grandson DJ, whom she referred to as “Grannie’s Man”.
Dorothy’s passion for sharing Christ impacted people everywhere she went. Several siblings, nieces, nephews, cousins, friends, and strangers have accepted Christ because of her desire to get everybody saved. Even during her years of chemotherapy treatment she still used every opportunity she could to witness and spread the love of JESUS to all those she came in contact with at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents Calvin & Ruth Moore, her brothers; JT, Willie, Bill, and Central Moore. She is survived in this life by a host of loving family members, her only child; Yolanda Trueheart (Stanton); grandchildren Adrian, Arielle, and Stanton “DJ”, her sisters; Thelma Snipes, Rosie Ingram (Otis), Ruthie Haley, and Mary Williams, her brothers; Abu Abdullah (Jathyia), Steve Moore, a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts, uncles and friends.
