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Taylor, Dixie

Dixie Irene Taylor, 61, of San Antonio, Texas, died Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005, in San Antonio.

She worked in the banking industry for 29 years. She was also employed as a certified nursing aide and worked in the printing industry for the last decade.

Family members said she was a loving wife and grandmother.

Survivors include her husband, Richard Lee Taylor; two sons, Shawn and Stoney Taylor; a daughter-in-law, Ann Taylor; four grandchildren, Travis Taylor, Jordan Taylor, Brooke Taylor and Tony Ramirez; her mother, Leona Fahnert; a sister, Donna Lethgo; a brother, Ron Danklefs; and a brother-in-law, Harvey Lethgo.

Burial will take place at Mission Burial Park South.

Arrangements are by Mission Park Funeral Chapels South in San Antonio, Texas.

Dorothy Jane Roth

Services: Have been held.

Dorothy Jane Roth, 63, of Monett, Mo., died Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005, at Cox Medial Center South in Springfield, Mo.

She was born June 11, 1942, in San Fernando, Calif. She was a retired cook for the food services industry.

She was preceded in death by her father, Ray Everett Stoddard; two children; and one grandchild.

Survivors include two sons, David Jones (and wife, Ginny) of Clovis and Robert Hawkins of Portales; three daughters, Sheri Mathews of Groves, Texas, Linda Pearson of Monett, Mo., and Patricia George of Bakersfield, Calif.; a mother, Emma Pierce Stoddard of Portales; a brother, Robert Stoddard of Portales; a sister, Thelma Collier of Clovis; 13 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

Cremation has taken place.

Arrangements were by Buchanan Funeral Home of Monett, Mo.