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Note: cancer.
The following obit was found in the "El Dorado Times," dated Monday,August 20, 1956.
"Long Illness Fatal to Mrs. Bessie Dice
Mrs. Besie S. Dice, 51, wife of Robert F. Dice, division manager forthe Kansas Gas and Electric Company at Newton, died at AxtellChristian hospital in Newton early Saturday. She had been ill for anumber of months.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Moody Chapel at 9 a.m.Tuesday by the Rev. D. Coyd Taggart. Burial will be in GreenwoodCemetery at Newton.
Mrs. Dice is survived by her husband; a son, Robert F. Dice, Jr.; ofthe home; a daughter, Mary Jane Dice, of the home; her mother, Mrs.Alice Sutter of Leon, Kas.; and three sisters, Mrs. I. C. Seward andMrs. James Gibb of Leon, and Mrs. Claude Blue of Colorado Springs.
Mrs. Dice was born near Leon June 4, 1905, the daughter of Ernest R.and Alice McCaffery Sutter. She was married to Mr. Dice at Leon May28, 1930. Prior to moving to Newton in April, 1955, the family livedat Wichita.
She was a member of the First Methodist church, the 20th Century Clubof Wichita, the women's division of Christian Service of the Methodistchurch and the Miriam Circle."
Note: According to Bessie's younger sister, Mickey, Bessie died of breast
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