MOUNT PULASKI -- Dorothy Ellen Mardis, 84, of Mount Pulaski died Monday, Oct. 3, 2005, at 2:37 p.m. at St. John's Hospital in Springfield.

Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount Pulaski.

Her funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Zion Lutheran Church in Mount Pulaski, with the Rev. Glenn Strohschein officiating.

Burial will be in Steenbergen Cemetery.

Mrs. Mardis worked at Stetson China and the bottle factory in Lincoln.

She was born Jan. 15, 1921, at Heyworth to Emil Fred and Bertha Amelia Bock Goetsch. She married Clarence Cecil Mardis in Missouri on Aug. 10, 1941. He preceded her in death.

She is survived by one daughter, Judy (and Jim Boy) Coogan of Mount Pulaski; one son, Clarence T. Mardis of Mount Pulaski; one sister, Bernadine George of Stanford; two grandchildren, J.C. (and Joyce) Coogan of Mount Pulaski and Teena (and Doug) Lowery of Mount Pulaski; one stepgrandson, Jerod Fults of Lincoln; four great-grandchildren; and one step-great-grandchild.

She was also preceded in death by one brother and two sisters.

She was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Mount Pulaski.

Memorials may be made to her church or to the Mount Pulaski Zion Lutheran School.

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