Dorothy June Tucker McKIbben was born December 10, 1921 in Augusta, GA to Roy and Margaret Foster Tucker.  She died August 19, 2018 in Little Rock, AR.

She was preceded in death by her husband of thirty nine years Grady McKibben and two sisters Marion Tucker Braden and Thelma Tucker Allen.  She is survived by her brother Roy "David" Tucker of Arkansas and 3 nieces Carol Beahm Turman of Maryland, Gail Woodville Roberson of Arkansas, and Dr. Susan Allen Klasing of California and 4 nephews BGen Robert H. Beahm, US Army Ret of Maryland, LTC Richard S. Beahm, US Amy Ret of Virginia, Mark Woodville of Arkansas and Steven Allen of Texas as well many great, great-nephews and nieces.

Her family were among the first settlers of Old Campbell (now Fulton) County in the area close to Fairburn, GA.  Her father was in the Navy when he met her Scots mother in Brooklyn, NY. The family lived there until 1932 when they moved back to Fairburn to run the family dairy farm.  When her father died in 1937 the family of three teenage girls, one baby boy and one "Yankee" mother were very poor.  Dot worked in high school to help her mother.  When she was 19 she was hired by the Southern Railroad and worked there for almost 42 years retiring as head clerk of records & statistics in car accounting. She was very proud of the fact she was never late for work including the morning she had a kitchen fire.

Her job at the railroad allowed her to engage in her two favorite pastimes: shopping, and traveling.  From her office in downtown Atlanta she regularly spent her lunch hours hunting for great deals (she was after all a child of the Depression). She started traveling as a young clerk, taking the free train rides that were a perk of working for the railroad.  A group would leave at close of business Friday and take the train to Jacksonville, FL, returning in time for Monday work.

She worked hard and saved her money allowing her to travel extensively in the US, and take several dozen trips abroad where she saw the Americas, Europe and the Near East. She had several traveling companions after her husband's death, and the laughter and stories lasted long after their return home.

Dot loved to socialize with her neighbors at dinner, have a glass of wine and discuss the day's events.

She was a member of Lithonia First Baptist Church and later First Baptist Church of Decatur. She was a woman of faith and enjoyed the fellowship of those she worshiped with and gained strength from.