Graveside inurnment services for Mary Ellen Dunfee will be held on Friday, February 3, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. at the Western Reserve National Cemetery in Rittman, Ohio.

Mrs. Dunfee died Friday January 13, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia. She was born July 23, 1934 in Fostoria, Ohio to the late Arnold Arbuthmot and Catherine Veronica (Lyden) Kellar.

She was a 1952 graduate of Jackson Liberty H.S. in Amsden, OH where she played the violin. After graduation she worked in the office of Seneca Wire and Manufacturing Co., was married to her late husband Robert L. Dunfee on June 11, 1955, moving to Elyria Ohio a year later where they raised a family of four. In Elyria, she graduated as an LPN from The Elyria School of Nursing. She retired as an LPN working at Elyria Memorial Hospital and a local nursing home. She returned to college later in her life and earned a BS in Sociology from Baldwin Wallace University. She was also member of Cross Community Church in Elyria and an avid quilter. After her husband's death, she moved to Christian City in Union City, Georgia where she lived her remaining years.

Survivors include her children, Robert Chester (Cynthia) Dunfee of Flora Vista, New Mexico; Phillip Edward (Cathy) Dunfee of Newark, Ohio; Matthew Lee (Deborah) Dunfee of Fayetteville, Ga; Mary Irene Dunfee of Wadsworth, Ohio; 8 grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren; 14 nieces and nephews. Survivors also include her Sisters Beatrice (Don) Scherger of Tiffin, Ohio, and Vesta Montion of Grove City, Ohio.

In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Lee Dunfee, whom died in April 10, 2009, and two sisters: Catherine "Cassie" Dow, La Plata, Maryland (June 7, 2011), and Noco Diane Parman, Fort Worth,TX (June 19, 2006).