At age 13 Dorene moved along with her mother and brother to Kansas City, MO, and then later to El Dorado Springs to finish her last three years of high school. Dorene worked at the International Shoe Company for 12 ½ years, Nellie Don for five years, and then retired from Honeywell after 13 years of employment. She was a member of Community Christian Church and was baptized in January of 1995.
Survivors include her husband Wayne of the home; daughter Tina Stewart, El Dorado Springs; four grandchildren, Tristan Claypool, Bryce Ledbetter, Dallas Bugg, Sarina Eaton; and seven great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; sisters, Nina Perkins, Ann Conyers; brothers, Buck, Bob, and Don Barger.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 4, 2018 at Ferry Funeral Home in Nevada with Pastor Terry Mosher officiating. Interment will follow in Newton Burial Park in Nevada. Friends may call Wednesday and until the hour of service on Saturday at the funeral home
