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Dorothy Waddy, a staunch advocate for the West Boulevard Corridor, in 2007.

Dorothy Doores Waddy, one of the West Boulevard Corridor’s leading advocates, died on June 10.

Her funeral service is June 17 at 12 p.m. at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, 3401 Beatties Ford Road. Visitation will be from 11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Miss Waddy, a longtime Clanton Park resident, was a tireless campaigner for political and community causes. She was a vocal backer locating a YMCA branch on West Boulevard and helped organize the West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition.

In 2011 after Mecklenburg County’s revaluation produced a spike in property tax bills in West Charlotte, Miss Waddy, president of the Clanton Park homeowners association, expressed her frustrations and vowed to have the county adjust the process after finding out that increase impacted lower-income homeowners.  

“Something is not fair, and I’m going to keep digging and digging and irritating and irritating until I get some answers,” she told The Post.

Miss Waddy was born on March 1, 1939 in Warrenton, Va., and moved to Charlotte in 1968. She joined Friendship Missionary Baptist Church that November and immersed herself in the Sunday School program, which she taught for several years before becoming department superintendent and later superintendent. Miss Waddy’s work extended beyond the church by forming a youth group and becoming an activist for the West Boulevard corridor.

Miss Waddy is survived by sons Donald and Herman, a daughter-in-law, Kim; granddaughter, Nikkena and two great-grandsons, Joey and Julian. She was preceded in death by a son, Stephen.

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