Dorothy (Palmer) Sharpe

Dorothy Palmer Sharpe was born on September 01, 1952, in Alabama by the late Nellie M. Palmer in
Hale County Alabama. She was the youngest of two siblings. older brother to the late Nathenial Palmer.
The Highest GOD call Dorothy Sharpe to rest in peace on June 20, 2024, at Baptist Health North Little
Rock, Arkansas.
Here is Dr. Dorothy Sharpe Legacy written by her before she knew her time of rest.
I am thrilled to say that I am a child of the King. I received Christ at the age of twelve in
a Baptist Church in Greensboro, Alabama. I had come to Alabama after my mother
passed in Newark, New Jersey. I was a young child, and I knew that God loved me
because I had heard my grandmother say it all my life. I was living with her and she
would always encourage me. As I got older, I was extremely active in the church and
became a Sunday School teacher and later I became the Superintendent of Sunday
School.
I became a prayer as well. God was opening doors to me early in my life. I entered
Stillman college, a private college in Tuscaloosa Alabama after I graduated from high
school. I attended Stillman from 1992-1994. I earned my English degree. I taught school
for about two years and later I decided to go for my master’s degree in education and
school counseling at the University of West Alabama in Livingston, Alabama. I attended
this school and received my Master’s degree in Education and Counseling in 2000. My
first husband passed after twenty -two years, and I later married my second husband. I
was doing my calling in the later years of my life as the Holy Spirit led me. At this time, I
was living by faith and hope because I was depending on grants and loans to pay for
my education. My husband found a job online that would take us to Florida. I was not
working as a teacher then, and I decided to go with him. We stayed there for a year and
I decided to go with him. We stayed there for a year and he was able to get another job
in California; this was 2003. We stayed there for three years and he decided to move
because of the expensiveness of the area. He took a job transfer to Chicago for a year.
While in Chicago we met an incredibly famous minister at the Living Word Center. The
congregation was very friendly and hospitable to us. We took ministering classes with
them and joined their congregation every Sunday for worship. We decided to go to
Arkansas after he wanted to purchase a home, and that is how we got to Arkansas. He
worked for the government and I worked for the Pulaski County School District up until
this year of 2020.
I have met so many teachers and administrators at different schools and some have
even retired. I had started writing my book because I was meditating all the time on the
decisions we were making about life and our livelihood. As I was working as a teacher

and as a counselor, I was passionate about my work. I started writing my book in 2018,
and I was terribly busy at that time in education. I took classes and got my Doctorate in
Divinity because I was already ordained as my husband was a Bishop and he was
working. I believe he had listened to God for his assignments, and that is how I decided
to writ the book. We later divorced, and I regret that. He was still searching for another
high paying position, and I believe God wanted him to do the work of ministry as he was
called. That is my story, and I am still going to do the work of God’s guidance until he
calls me home.
She worked in education her entire professional life. Her last journey was working in the Pulaski
County Special School District in Little Rock Arkansas. Dr. Dorothy Sharpe started a ministry
called The Word Revealed Ministry in April 2015 until it was time for her final rest. She also
wrote a book called Meditation on the Word Brings The Mind of Christ, published in 2020. The
last five years of her legacy also included being a member of St. John Missionary Baptist Church
of Little Rock Arkansas. She was a member of the Pray team, student at Sunday School Class
and a member of the Senior Citizens team as well.
She leaves two blessed children: Steven N. Palmer (Hamilton) and Ruzena P.H. (Leslie) Patton.
Grandchildren; Evie Jerrell Lawson, Keenaan Jamal Lawson, Deja Danielle, Leslie III, Isaiah,
Zakiah Leilah and Azariyah Saraiyah Patton. Five great grandchildren. One aunt Lucille Harries, Birmingham, Alabama and a host of relatives and friends.

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