March 16, 1920 ~ April 27, 2012
ENID - The graveside service for Carl Dillinger, 92, will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 1, 2012, at South Mound Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, South Mound, Kansas. Rev. Debi Lorenz will officiate. Arrangements are by Anderson-Burris Funeral Home.
Carl was born to Charles and Beryl (Linder) Dillinger on March 16, 1920, on a farm in Kiowa County, Kansas, and passed away Friday, April 27, 2012, in Enid.
Carl graduated from high school in Wilmore, Kansas in 1937. On August 19, 1939, Carl married Maxine Miller in Erie, Kansas, before moving to the Mooreland, Oklahoma, area to farm and ranch. They moved to Freedom, in 1960, where he worked for the school system and continued to farm and ranch. In 1982, they retired to Bella Vista, Arkansas, where Carl was very active in the Christian Church and enjoyed fishing and helping his neighbors. They moved to Enid in January 2008 to be close to their family and their newborn twin grandsons. Above all, Carl loved his family, and he will be greatly missed.
Carl is survived by two daughters, Carlene Ali and Jo Ann Johnson and husband Jim, all of Enid; three grandchildren, Deana and Mike Ali and Kayla Zelnicek; four great-grandchildren, Abudi and Ollie Ali and Hayden and Hudson Zelnicek; and brother Wayne Dillinger.
He was preceded in death by his parents; twin infant sons; Maxine, wife of 70 years; two sisters, Eva and Lola; three brothers, Lloyd, Glenn and Loren.
Memorials are to Lions Boys Home. Condolences online at www.andersonburris .com.
(Submitted by family)