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A Service of Remembrance for Unknown Friends will be held at the Belle Vista Mausoleum on Friday, May 7 at 2pm. The community is invited to gather to lay to rest those that are without families. Please feel free to attend and support your community. www.carlsoncolonial.com

On Sunday, April 25, 2021, Mary Etta Fuller, loving mother and grandmother passed away at the age of 98. Mary Etta was born on December 10, 1922 in El Dorado, KS to Everett and Nellie (Welty) Pierce. On April 12, 1940, she married M.L. (Bucky) Fuller. They raised one daughter, Mildred (Fuller) Barton. Mary Etta and Bucky spent their early years farming and were founding members of the El Dorado Saddle Club. Mary Etta worked on the assembly line at Beech Aircraft for 36 years. After retiring...

Darlene Ann Walter of Ponca City, Oklahoma passed away on April 8, 2021 at St. John’s Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was born July 25, 1939 in Leon, Kansas to Delbert and Clarice (Holt) Moore. She attended grade school in Leon and then went to El Dorado High School, graduating in the Class of 1957. She married Raymond Ross and had two children, Larry and Linda. He was in the Air Force and they moved to different places in the U.S. and Italy. She married Chris Walter in 1972 in El Dorado...

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Inez Dixon, 81 passed away on Monday, April 12th in Wichita, Kansas in the comfort of her home. She is survived by her brother John Griffith and his wife Joyce, her daughter ReJeannia Dixon, her son Michael and Lesa Dixon, her grandchildren Vicki Dixon, Brenda Chamberlin, Eric Dixon, Rachael and Kyle Maring. Her memorial service will be Friday, April 16th at 12 pm to 2 pm. She will be missed by her love ones and will cherish the memories she left us all to remember her by.

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Elizabeth Jane Little was born December 30, 1929 to John Roy Little and Mary Zita Mills Little at the home of her grandfather John Mills in Russell, Kansas.  She grew up on a farm between Russell and Gorham.  Jane (as she was known all of her life) attended St. Mary’s Church and Grade School and Gorham Rural High School. Jane married Francis L. Rhyne June 25, 1947, in Gorham, Kansas.  To their union was born seven sons and two daughters:  Gerald, Timothy, Susan, William, John, Richard,...

Gerald Earl (Jerry) Pippig was born on October 19, 1933, in El Dorado, Kansas, to Kenneth E. And Vara (Hodges) Pippig. He passed away at his home in El Dorado on March 21, 2021, surrounded by his wife and family. Jerry lived in El Dorado all his life. He attended El Dorado schools, graduating from El Dorado High School in 1951 and El Dorado Junior College in 1953. On April 9, 1953, he married Joyce Taylor at the First United Methodist Church of El Dorado; they were married nearly 68 years....

Ted Wayne Corbin, 72, of El Dorado, KS went to be with his Lord and Savior on March 13, 2021. Ted was born on July 11, 1948 in Wichita, KS to Warren and Harriett (Bachelder) Corbin. His family’s strong faith was evident in his dedication to the Lord on April 9, 1950. He made the decision at the age of nine-years-old to accept Christ into his heart and follow his Lord’s example in baptism. Ted grew up and learned his extraordinary work ethic on the family dairy farm north of...

Eloise’s life began on October 18, 1932 in Newton, KS; the daughter of Vernon G. and Louise (Campbell) Zieman. She attended El Dorado High School and graduated in 1950. Eloise was united in marriage to Melvin G. Bruington on December 18, 1953 in Florence, KS. Eloise worked hard for her family as a clerk in the Butler County Appraiser’s Office. Eloise loved her church and attended First United Methodist Church in El Dorado, where she was a member of the Lydia Circle. She also enjoyed...