Biography: Dorothy Buie Jones Jennings died early Thursday morning. She was born in Little Rock, the only child of Eugene Clarence and Ann Arlone Buie Jones. She graduated from Little Rock High School (now Central High) and Little Rock Junior College (now UALR), and attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi. She married Alston Jennings in June of 1943 and traveled with him across the country as he gathered his Navy flight crew in preparation for going overseas. He died in January 2004. She spoke fondly of their time in Corpus Christi, Texas and San Jose, California. They spent the balance of their 61 year marriage in Little Rock, traveling extensively in connection with his career in trial law. She was past president of the Little Rock Garden Club, sustaining member of the Junior League of Little Rock, past president of the Friends of the Little Rock Public Library, an early supporter of the Arkansas Arts Center and chairman of the first grounds committee of the Museum of Decorative Arts. In 1958, she participated in the Women’s Emergency Committee to reopen the public schools in Little Rock after the Central High crisis. Later, when her children were in school, she spent years as an active Volunteer in Public Schools. During the Vietnam era, she was an active pacifist, outspoken in her opposition to the war and proud of her commitment to the peace movement and the moratorium of October 1969. Fiercely loyal to her family and devoted to her friends, Dot was a person of commitment and intensity. She was an avid reader, fascinated by words, their meanings and impact. She considered herself a seeker, intensely interested in matters of the spirit, and she read widely and deeply in this field. She will be remembered for her hospitality, her love of cooking and fine food, her rapier-like wit and her finely honed sense of humor. She enjoyed immensely the company of her family. She is survived by sons Charles Alston Jennings, Jr. (Margaret), and Eugene Franklin Jennings (Nancy), and daughter Ann Buie Jennings Shackelford (Craig), and six grandchildren, Laura Yates Jennings, Franklin Clark Jennings, William Read Jennings, Samuel Wilson Shackelford, Ann Alston Devany Shackelford and Bland Devany Shackelford. The family will be at 1801 North Beechwood on Friday evening from 5:00 until 7:00. Services will be private. Memorials may be made to the public library or the Garden Club of America.