Obituary

Funeral services for Ellie LaFont, 56, will be at 2 p.m. Friday in First United Methodist Church with Dr. Max Browning, former pastor, and Dr. Lewis Holland, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Plainview Cemetery by Bartley Funeral Home. Mrs. LaFont died Tuesday morning, March 1, 2005, at her residence in Plainview. She was born March 7, 1948, in Spencer, Iowa, the daughter of Gilbert and Zerena Dardis. She graduated from high school in Spencer in 1965 and moved to Plainview in 1980 from Garden City, Kan. She was a homemaker and a member of First United Methodist Church. She married Bill LaFont on Dec. 27, 1984. Survivors include her husband; her mother, Zerena Dardis of Spencer; two sons, Matthew LaFont of Plainview and Chris Chapman of Los Colinas; a daughter and son-in-law, Nicole and Jasen Smock of Sealy; three brothers and two sisters-in-law, Rod and Janie Dardis of Plainview, Lt. Gen. Ron and Carmel Dardis of Des Moines, Iowa, and Roger Dardis of Fort Meyer, Fla.; two sisters and a brother-in-law, Darlene and Don Young of Cedar City, Utah, and Cindy Bergin of Fostoria, Iowa; and three granddaughters, Morgan, Kamren and Rylee, all of Sealy. Her father, Gilbert Dardis; and a daughter, Heather Steffe, are deceased. Pallbearers will be Jimmy James, Tom Cunningham, Graddy Tunnell, David Issacson, Brent Hamilton, Tom Hamilton, Stewart Webb, Dr. T. Coe Branch and Ray Pendergast. The family will receive friends from 6-7 p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorials are suggested to First United Methodist Church Youth, 1001 W. Seventh St., Plainview, TX 79072.