Eleanor Mullins Downing

Eleanor Mullins Downing, 90, a resident of Ozark, passed away peacefully on Monday, March 21, 2016 at Flowers Hospital.

She is preceded in death by her parents, John R Mullins and Florence B Mullins and her sister Lorraine M Dwyer.

She is survived by her beloved husband of sixty-nine years, Arthur Covington Downing, Jr.; her three daughters Sue Kolar Robert, Holly Dahl John and Jamielee Ralph Mike; and her two cats Benji and Sparky.

Memorial services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, March 25, 2016 at Evergreen Presbyterian Church with Pastors Joe Johnson and Ashley Drake Mertz officiating. The family will receive friends from 10-10:45 a.m. Flowers are being accepted or memorial gifts may be made to Evergreen Presbyterian Church, 1103 N. Pontiac Avenue, Dothan, AL 36303.

At 21 years old she married her high school sweetheart. She worked as a Traveling Secretary to Edgar Fosburgh Kaiser, Sr. while her husband attended graduate school in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She raised three daughters and then opened her own travel agency, Carrousel Travel in Richfield, Minnesota. She and her husband loved to travel. She has long been a member of the Presbyterian Church and enjoyed the fellowship she found at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Bluemont & Mayberry Presbyterian Churches in Virginia and Evergreen Presbyterian Church in Dothan, Alabama. She had a heart of gold and was always an inspiration to others. She was loved by all that knew her and will be sorely missed until that wonderful day when we will see her again.