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Thursday, December 2, 1999

Graveside services for Dorothy Eldringhoff, 89, of Delta, Colo. will be at noon, Friday, Dec. 3, 1999 at Delta Cemetery. Dorothy was born March 7, 1910 in Crescent, Okla. to Charles and Emma Kate Baker. She died Nov. 30, 1999 at the home of her son in Grand Junction, Colo.

Dorothy grew up in Guthrie and graduated from Guthrie High School. She attended college in Kansas.

She was preceded in death by her parents and husband, Fred Eldringhoff. She is survived by her son, James Carl and wife Colleen of Grand Junction; four granddaughters, Pamela Welter and husband Joe, Penny and Dennis Odwyer of Grand Junction, Patty and Ernie Patton of Banning, Calif. and Peggy Eldringhoff of Hot Springs, Calif.; six great-grandchildren; three sisters, Joy Meeks of Pueblo, Colo., Twila Vaughn of Tulsa, and Charline Sasser of Guthrie; one brother, Frank Baker and Ella of Cape Coral, Fla.

Dorothy and Fred met at Gage, Okla. They lived at West Plains, Mo. until the war, when in 1941 they moved to Pueblo, Colo. where he worked for the Ammunition Depot.

After retirement they made another move to Delta. They enjoyed hunting and fishing.

Dorothy was a wonderful sister. During our mother's illness she helped care for her. After Mother died she and Joy took care of us smaller ones, being always kind and patient with us.

She worked for a doctor in Gage. Dorothy will be greatly missed.

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