Mrs. Doretha Moore Daniels

Her Journey: Psalm 118-17 - I Shall Not Die But Live and Declare the Works of the Lord Doretha Pickett (Moore-Daniels) was born on November 19, 1938 in Yellow Bluff, Alabama. She was the first of the five children (Doretha "Bay", Jesse, Henry Jr. (Tomboy), Bonnie (deceased) and Cleophus (Bo) from our beloved departed Henry Pickett Sr. (Boot) and his wife Irene McNeil Pickett (Suer). Doretha was also loved and cared for by her grandparents Herod McNeil (deceased) and Mary Randolph McNeal (deceased) in a praying, spiritual household. According to her aunt Lula McNeil-Ellis (deceased) when she played baseball she never wanted to be out. Doretha always knew she was different, she experienced, saw things, everything in a spiritual manner. She grew up in the church and she never lost her religious foundation. She was married to Roosevelt Moore (Flat Top) during the time she lived in Selma, Alabama. Together they had three children, Roosevelt Jr. (Rickey deceased), Brenda and Ivy. Doretha relocated to Detroit with her children, father and brothers. During this time, she was blessed with her youngest child Victor (Pookie) and this is where she met her second husband William Daniels (deceased). She cared for her first born son Rickey until his untimley death. Doretha reaffirmed her religious foundation with Minister Sister Smith (deceased). They would dress in white, play their tambourines in church and at her house. They loved to pray and worship the Lord and missionary work gave her great joy. She later worked diligently in the church of Pastor Hudson. She enjoyed attending Third New Hope Baptist Church on a regular basis. If anybody wanted to know where she was going, it was to church. If you wanted to know what time she loved to pray, ask her grandchildren, it was three o'clock in the morning! No one could pray like her, and no one was ever left out of her prayers. When asked what she was most proud of, it was her children. She loved, cared, guided, protected and prayed for them for as long as she could. She wrote a song which she enjoyed singing with her children: "Cleaning Up My House: Kicking The Devil Out." Doretha was strong, proud and spiritual until the day she left the body that could no longer keep her from her true destination. A message from Doretha: "I was so tired before I left, I just got to heaven and I can't sit I just got to heaven and I can't sit down."

Mrs. Doretha Moore Daniels

November 19, 1938 - January 23, 2014