Dana A. Stewart, 32, of El Dorado, died Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006, near El Dorado in an automobile accident. Services will be announced by Carlson Funeral Home
El Dorado's emergency response community is grieving today.
It is the loss one its own has suffered which is being felt by those people, as well as by students, teachers and administrators in two school districts.
Dana A. Stewart, 32, wife of El Dorado police officer John Stewart and a sixth grade science teacher at Stucky Middle School in Wichita USD 259, was killed Tuesday morning in a three-vehicle accident on Kansas Highway 254.The accident occurred at 7:05 a.m. just west of the Kansas Highway 196 overpass.
According to reports from the Kansas Highway Patrol, the vehicle being driven by Mrs. Stewart was one of three which were westbound on K-254.
According to KHP reports, a truck driven by David Santos Dominguez, 25, of Grand Rapids, Mich. had slowed down to pull onto the shoulder due to vehicle trouble.
Mrs. Stewart's vehicle then struck the truck in the rear, according to the KHP, and was then struck from the rear by a vehicle driven by Brenda Kay Stewart, 43, of Hamilton.
Brenda Stewart suffered minor injuries and was transported to Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital by Butler County Emergency Medical Services.
Neither Santos nor two passengers in his truck were injured.
El Dorado Police Chief Tom Boren said officers in his department were "pretty shaken" by Mrs. Stewart's death.
"It's something we will not be getting over for quite a while," he said.
Boren said police officers have an obligation to do their jobs professionally in dealing with other peoples' sorrows and hurts in the course of their work.
However, he said, when something tragic happens to "one of your own" it is difficult to have that same objectivity.
Boren said spouses are "an important part of our support" for El Dorado police officers.
For instance, he said, when new officers are hired they are always asked to bring their families with them for the first day or two of orientation to look around the department and meet some of the other people in it.
Boren said Mrs. Stewart's death is "a reminder of how fleeting life is, and that it could happen to any of our families."
John Stewart's brother Brandon is a deputy with the Butler County Sheriff's Office.
Every song sung during the service he would be helping to officiate was either one of Dana Stewart's favorites at the church she and her family called their home, Rev. Ron Jones said, or one she loved to sing.
The messages those gathered Saturday afternoon in the Temple Baptist Church would be hearing were from Bible verses she had highlighted and underlined, he said.
"She believed in her heart this word of God," Jones said.
"She lived it, and that is why it is such an honor for us to really celebrate her life.
"We know beyond a shadow of a doubt where she is," Jones said, "because she wrote it here in her Bible."
It was particularly an honor, he said, to look out upon all the teachers and law enforcement officers who were gathered in the church.
Hundreds of mourners were gathered in the church - so many that they filled the sanctuary and were also gathered in rooms upstairs.
Funeral services for Dana Stewart were held Saturday afternoon - and her faith was at the heart of what was conveyed during those services, held as a celebration of her life.
Mrs. Stewart, 32, wife of El Dorado police officer John Stewart, was killed last Tuesday morning in a traffic accident on Kansas Highway 254 west of El Dorado.
She was in her first year of teaching at Stucky Middle School in Wichita USD 259, where she was a sixth grade science teacher.
During the 1999-2000 and 2000-01 school years Mrs. Stewart taught kindergarten and science at what was then the Towanda Grade School.
When he was asked to help share scripture from Mrs. Stewart's Bible, said Rev. Wade Graber, he thought he would take some time to go through it.
"Two hours later," he said, "I had finished taking notes."
It was not only the 173 lines he recorded and the two chapters which had been totally highlighted which he had taken notice of, Graber said; it was also the personal notes about what she had already been studying in the Bible, as well as the blank sticky notes of all colors "ready to record those next things" God would be showing her, which caught his eye.
Although there were "many, many topics" covered in the passages Mrs. Stewart had marked, Graber said family, the scriptures themselves, prayer and salvation were the four main topics of those passages.
"I've always been a firm believer that you learn a lot about a person by what they read," Jones said, and that is especially exemplified by the verses Dana Stewart had underlined or highlighted and the things she had written in her Bible.
From studying that Bible, he said, it was clear to him "if she thought the verse was important she underlined it.
"If she read it again and thought it was really important she highlighted it; and if she read it again and thought it was really, really important she put stars, hearts and stuff all over it.
"She had the verse highlighted, underlined and with stars everywhere around it."
Anyone who left the church doubting the reality of Christianity would be arguing not only with the word of God but also with Dana Stewart, Jones said.
John Stewart said all the support and prayers he and his family had received since his wife's death have been "nothing short of amazing."
He said the grief and tragedy he and has family have experienced "is something I would not wish upon any person - but I truly believe God has a plan, and His plan will prevail" regardless of "whether we agree with it.
"I'd like to tell you all I know why Dana had to go home in such an unexpected situation," Stewart said, but that is not his place.
"I thought I was in control" until last Tuesday morning and God corrected him, he said, "but now I realize I am in control of nothing and He is in control of everything."
John and Dana Stewart were married July 21, 2001.
Since that time, he said, he and his wife had grown to Jesus as their Lord and savior; now, he said, "it is without a doubt" that he was able to "stand before you and tell you I will one day see my wife again.
"I know God has better things in store for Dana," Stewart said, and "her work on earth was completed" at about 7:05 a.m. last Tuesday morning.
"Do you know the date and time your work on this earth will be completed?" he asked those seated before him to consider.
Saturday's service concluded with a video presentation about Dana Stewart's life produced by Carlson Funeral Home, which was in charge of the arrangements.
There was soft laughter as a pregnant Dana Stewart struck a silhouette pose with her step-father, Dennis Dye, in one of the pictures.
Among the floral arrangements present at Mrs. Stewart's services was a vase of hand-made roses created by Stucky students.
El Dorado's emergency response community is grieving today.
It is the loss one its own has suffered which is being felt by those people, as well as by students, teachers and administrators in two school districts.
Dana A. Stewart, 32, wife of El Dorado police officer John Stewart and a sixth grade science teacher at Stucky Middle School in Wichita USD 259, was killed Tuesday morning in a three-vehicle accident on Kansas Highway 254.The accident occurred at 7:05 a.m. just west of the Kansas Highway 196 overpass.
According to reports from the Kansas Highway Patrol, the vehicle being driven by Mrs. Stewart was one of three which were westbound on K-254.
According to KHP reports, a truck driven by David Santos Dominguez, 25, of Grand Rapids, Mich. had slowed down to pull onto the shoulder due to vehicle trouble.
Mrs. Stewart's vehicle then struck the truck in the rear, according to the KHP, and was then struck from the rear by a vehicle driven by Brenda Kay Stewart, 43, of Hamilton.
Brenda Stewart suffered minor injuries and was transported to Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital by Butler County Emergency Medical Services.
Neither Santos nor two passengers in his truck were injured.
El Dorado Police Chief Tom Boren said officers in his department were "pretty shaken" by Mrs. Stewart's death.
"It's something we will not be getting over for quite a while," he said.
Boren said police officers have an obligation to do their jobs professionally in dealing with other peoples' sorrows and hurts in the course of their work.
However, he said, when something tragic happens to "one of your own" it is difficult to have that same objectivity.
Boren said spouses are "an important part of our support" for El Dorado police officers.
For instance, he said, when new officers are hired they are always asked to bring their families with them for the first day or two of orientation to look around the department and meet some of the other people in it.
Boren said Mrs. Stewart's death is "a reminder of how fleeting life is, and that it could happen to any of our families."
John Stewart's brother Brandon is a deputy with the Butler County Sheriff's Office.
Every song sung during the service he would be helping to officiate was either one of Dana Stewart's favorites at the church she and her family called their home, Rev. Ron Jones said, or one she loved to sing.
The messages those gathered Saturday afternoon in the Temple Baptist Church would be hearing were from Bible verses she had highlighted and underlined, he said.
"She believed in her heart this word of God," Jones said.
"She lived it, and that is why it is such an honor for us to really celebrate her life.
"We know beyond a shadow of a doubt where she is," Jones said, "because she wrote it here in her Bible."
It was particularly an honor, he said, to look out upon all the teachers and law enforcement officers who were gathered in the church.
Hundreds of mourners were gathered in the church - so many that they filled the sanctuary and were also gathered in rooms upstairs.
Funeral services for Dana Stewart were held Saturday afternoon - and her faith was at the heart of what was conveyed during those services, held as a celebration of her life.
Mrs. Stewart, 32, wife of El Dorado police officer John Stewart, was killed last Tuesday morning in a traffic accident on Kansas Highway 254 west of El Dorado.
She was in her first year of teaching at Stucky Middle School in Wichita USD 259, where she was a sixth grade science teacher.
During the 1999-2000 and 2000-01 school years Mrs. Stewart taught kindergarten and science at what was then the Towanda Grade School.
When he was asked to help share scripture from Mrs. Stewart's Bible, said Rev. Wade Graber, he thought he would take some time to go through it.
"Two hours later," he said, "I had finished taking notes."
It was not only the 173 lines he recorded and the two chapters which had been totally highlighted which he had taken notice of, Graber said; it was also the personal notes about what she had already been studying in the Bible, as well as the blank sticky notes of all colors "ready to record those next things" God would be showing her, which caught his eye.
Although there were "many, many topics" covered in the passages Mrs. Stewart had marked, Graber said family, the scriptures themselves, prayer and salvation were the four main topics of those passages.
"I've always been a firm believer that you learn a lot about a person by what they read," Jones said, and that is especially exemplified by the verses Dana Stewart had underlined or highlighted and the things she had written in her Bible.
From studying that Bible, he said, it was clear to him "if she thought the verse was important she underlined it.
"If she read it again and thought it was really important she highlighted it; and if she read it again and thought it was really, really important she put stars, hearts and stuff all over it.
"She had the verse highlighted, underlined and with stars everywhere around it."
Anyone who left the church doubting the reality of Christianity would be arguing not only with the word of God but also with Dana Stewart, Jones said.
John Stewart said all the support and prayers he and his family had received since his wife's death have been "nothing short of amazing."
He said the grief and tragedy he and has family have experienced "is something I would not wish upon any person - but I truly believe God has a plan, and His plan will prevail" regardless of "whether we agree with it.
"I'd like to tell you all I know why Dana had to go home in such an unexpected situation," Stewart said, but that is not his place.
"I thought I was in control" until last Tuesday morning and God corrected him, he said, "but now I realize I am in control of nothing and He is in control of everything."
John and Dana Stewart were married July 21, 2001.
Since that time, he said, he and his wife had grown to Jesus as their Lord and savior; now, he said, "it is without a doubt" that he was able to "stand before you and tell you I will one day see my wife again.
"I know God has better things in store for Dana," Stewart said, and "her work on earth was completed" at about 7:05 a.m. last Tuesday morning.
"Do you know the date and time your work on this earth will be completed?" he asked those seated before him to consider.
Saturday's service concluded with a video presentation about Dana Stewart's life produced by Carlson Funeral Home, which was in charge of the arrangements.
There was soft laughter as a pregnant Dana Stewart struck a silhouette pose with her step-father, Dennis Dye, in one of the pictures.
Among the floral arrangements present at Mrs. Stewart's services was a vase of hand-made roses created by Stucky students.
Dana A. Stewart, 32, of El Dorado, died Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006, near El Dorado in an automobile accident. Services will be announced by Carlson Funeral Home
El Dorado's emergency response community is grieving today.
It is the loss one its own has suffered which is being felt by those people, as well as by students, teachers and administrators in two school districts.
Dana A. Stewart, 32, wife of El Dorado police officer John Stewart and a sixth grade science teacher at Stucky Middle School in Wichita USD 259, was killed Tuesday morning in a three-vehicle accident on Kansas Highway 254.The accident occurred at 7:05 a.m. just west of the Kansas Highway 196 overpass.
According to reports from the Kansas Highway Patrol, the vehicle being driven by Mrs. Stewart was one of three which were westbound on K-254.
According to KHP reports, a truck driven by David Santos Dominguez, 25, of Grand Rapids, Mich. had slowed down to pull onto the shoulder due to vehicle trouble.
Mrs. Stewart's vehicle then struck the truck in the rear, according to the KHP, and was then struck from the rear by a vehicle driven by Brenda Kay Stewart, 43, of Hamilton.
Brenda Stewart suffered minor injuries and was transported to Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital by Butler County Emergency Medical Services.
Neither Santos nor two passengers in his truck were injured.
El Dorado Police Chief Tom Boren said officers in his department were "pretty shaken" by Mrs. Stewart's death.
"It's something we will not be getting over for quite a while," he said.
Boren said police officers have an obligation to do their jobs professionally in dealing with other peoples' sorrows and hurts in the course of their work.
However, he said, when something tragic happens to "one of your own" it is difficult to have that same objectivity.
Boren said spouses are "an important part of our support" for El Dorado police officers.
For instance, he said, when new officers are hired they are always asked to bring their families with them for the first day or two of orientation to look around the department and meet some of the other people in it.
Boren said Mrs. Stewart's death is "a reminder of how fleeting life is, and that it could happen to any of our families."
John Stewart's brother Brandon is a deputy with the Butler County Sheriff's Office.
Every song sung during the service he would be helping to officiate was either one of Dana Stewart's favorites at the church she and her family called their home, Rev. Ron Jones said, or one she loved to sing.
The messages those gathered Saturday afternoon in the Temple Baptist Church would be hearing were from Bible verses she had highlighted and underlined, he said.
"She believed in her heart this word of God," Jones said.
"She lived it, and that is why it is such an honor for us to really celebrate her life.
"We know beyond a shadow of a doubt where she is," Jones said, "because she wrote it here in her Bible."
It was particularly an honor, he said, to look out upon all the teachers and law enforcement officers who were gathered in the church.
Hundreds of mourners were gathered in the church - so many that they filled the sanctuary and were also gathered in rooms upstairs.
Funeral services for Dana Stewart were held Saturday afternoon - and her faith was at the heart of what was conveyed during those services, held as a celebration of her life.
Mrs. Stewart, 32, wife of El Dorado police officer John Stewart, was killed last Tuesday morning in a traffic accident on Kansas Highway 254 west of El Dorado.
She was in her first year of teaching at Stucky Middle School in Wichita USD 259, where she was a sixth grade science teacher.
During the 1999-2000 and 2000-01 school years Mrs. Stewart taught kindergarten and science at what was then the Towanda Grade School.
When he was asked to help share scripture from Mrs. Stewart's Bible, said Rev. Wade Graber, he thought he would take some time to go through it.
"Two hours later," he said, "I had finished taking notes."
It was not only the 173 lines he recorded and the two chapters which had been totally highlighted which he had taken notice of, Graber said; it was also the personal notes about what she had already been studying in the Bible, as well as the blank sticky notes of all colors "ready to record those next things" God would be showing her, which caught his eye.
Although there were "many, many topics" covered in the passages Mrs. Stewart had marked, Graber said family, the scriptures themselves, prayer and salvation were the four main topics of those passages.
"I've always been a firm believer that you learn a lot about a person by what they read," Jones said, and that is especially exemplified by the verses Dana Stewart had underlined or highlighted and the things she had written in her Bible.
From studying that Bible, he said, it was clear to him "if she thought the verse was important she underlined it.
"If she read it again and thought it was really important she highlighted it; and if she read it again and thought it was really, really important she put stars, hearts and stuff all over it.
"She had the verse highlighted, underlined and with stars everywhere around it."
Anyone who left the church doubting the reality of Christianity would be arguing not only with the word of God but also with Dana Stewart, Jones said.
John Stewart said all the support and prayers he and his family had received since his wife's death have been "nothing short of amazing."
He said the grief and tragedy he and has family have experienced "is something I would not wish upon any person - but I truly believe God has a plan, and His plan will prevail" regardless of "whether we agree with it.
"I'd like to tell you all I know why Dana had to go home in such an unexpected situation," Stewart said, but that is not his place.
"I thought I was in control" until last Tuesday morning and God corrected him, he said, "but now I realize I am in control of nothing and He is in control of everything."
John and Dana Stewart were married July 21, 2001.
Since that time, he said, he and his wife had grown to Jesus as their Lord and savior; now, he said, "it is without a doubt" that he was able to "stand before you and tell you I will one day see my wife again.
"I know God has better things in store for Dana," Stewart said, and "her work on earth was completed" at about 7:05 a.m. last Tuesday morning.
"Do you know the date and time your work on this earth will be completed?" he asked those seated before him to consider.
Saturday's service concluded with a video presentation about Dana Stewart's life produced by Carlson Funeral Home, which was in charge of the arrangements.
There was soft laughter as a pregnant Dana Stewart struck a silhouette pose with her step-father, Dennis Dye, in one of the pictures.
Among the floral arrangements present at Mrs. Stewart's services was a vase of hand-made roses created by Stucky students.
El Dorado's emergency response community is grieving today.
It is the loss one its own has suffered which is being felt by those people, as well as by students, teachers and administrators in two school districts.
Dana A. Stewart, 32, wife of El Dorado police officer John Stewart and a sixth grade science teacher at Stucky Middle School in Wichita USD 259, was killed Tuesday morning in a three-vehicle accident on Kansas Highway 254.The accident occurred at 7:05 a.m. just west of the Kansas Highway 196 overpass.
According to reports from the Kansas Highway Patrol, the vehicle being driven by Mrs. Stewart was one of three which were westbound on K-254.
According to KHP reports, a truck driven by David Santos Dominguez, 25, of Grand Rapids, Mich. had slowed down to pull onto the shoulder due to vehicle trouble.
Mrs. Stewart's vehicle then struck the truck in the rear, according to the KHP, and was then struck from the rear by a vehicle driven by Brenda Kay Stewart, 43, of Hamilton.
Brenda Stewart suffered minor injuries and was transported to Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital by Butler County Emergency Medical Services.
Neither Santos nor two passengers in his truck were injured.
El Dorado Police Chief Tom Boren said officers in his department were "pretty shaken" by Mrs. Stewart's death.
"It's something we will not be getting over for quite a while," he said.
Boren said police officers have an obligation to do their jobs professionally in dealing with other peoples' sorrows and hurts in the course of their work.
However, he said, when something tragic happens to "one of your own" it is difficult to have that same objectivity.
Boren said spouses are "an important part of our support" for El Dorado police officers.
For instance, he said, when new officers are hired they are always asked to bring their families with them for the first day or two of orientation to look around the department and meet some of the other people in it.
Boren said Mrs. Stewart's death is "a reminder of how fleeting life is, and that it could happen to any of our families."
John Stewart's brother Brandon is a deputy with the Butler County Sheriff's Office.
Every song sung during the service he would be helping to officiate was either one of Dana Stewart's favorites at the church she and her family called their home, Rev. Ron Jones said, or one she loved to sing.
The messages those gathered Saturday afternoon in the Temple Baptist Church would be hearing were from Bible verses she had highlighted and underlined, he said.
"She believed in her heart this word of God," Jones said.
"She lived it, and that is why it is such an honor for us to really celebrate her life.
"We know beyond a shadow of a doubt where she is," Jones said, "because she wrote it here in her Bible."
It was particularly an honor, he said, to look out upon all the teachers and law enforcement officers who were gathered in the church.
Hundreds of mourners were gathered in the church - so many that they filled the sanctuary and were also gathered in rooms upstairs.
Funeral services for Dana Stewart were held Saturday afternoon - and her faith was at the heart of what was conveyed during those services, held as a celebration of her life.
Mrs. Stewart, 32, wife of El Dorado police officer John Stewart, was killed last Tuesday morning in a traffic accident on Kansas Highway 254 west of El Dorado.
She was in her first year of teaching at Stucky Middle School in Wichita USD 259, where she was a sixth grade science teacher.
During the 1999-2000 and 2000-01 school years Mrs. Stewart taught kindergarten and science at what was then the Towanda Grade School.
When he was asked to help share scripture from Mrs. Stewart's Bible, said Rev. Wade Graber, he thought he would take some time to go through it.
"Two hours later," he said, "I had finished taking notes."
It was not only the 173 lines he recorded and the two chapters which had been totally highlighted which he had taken notice of, Graber said; it was also the personal notes about what she had already been studying in the Bible, as well as the blank sticky notes of all colors "ready to record those next things" God would be showing her, which caught his eye.
Although there were "many, many topics" covered in the passages Mrs. Stewart had marked, Graber said family, the scriptures themselves, prayer and salvation were the four main topics of those passages.
"I've always been a firm believer that you learn a lot about a person by what they read," Jones said, and that is especially exemplified by the verses Dana Stewart had underlined or highlighted and the things she had written in her Bible.
From studying that Bible, he said, it was clear to him "if she thought the verse was important she underlined it.
"If she read it again and thought it was really important she highlighted it; and if she read it again and thought it was really, really important she put stars, hearts and stuff all over it.
"She had the verse highlighted, underlined and with stars everywhere around it."
Anyone who left the church doubting the reality of Christianity would be arguing not only with the word of God but also with Dana Stewart, Jones said.
John Stewart said all the support and prayers he and his family had received since his wife's death have been "nothing short of amazing."
He said the grief and tragedy he and has family have experienced "is something I would not wish upon any person - but I truly believe God has a plan, and His plan will prevail" regardless of "whether we agree with it.
"I'd like to tell you all I know why Dana had to go home in such an unexpected situation," Stewart said, but that is not his place.
"I thought I was in control" until last Tuesday morning and God corrected him, he said, "but now I realize I am in control of nothing and He is in control of everything."
John and Dana Stewart were married July 21, 2001.
Since that time, he said, he and his wife had grown to Jesus as their Lord and savior; now, he said, "it is without a doubt" that he was able to "stand before you and tell you I will one day see my wife again.
"I know God has better things in store for Dana," Stewart said, and "her work on earth was completed" at about 7:05 a.m. last Tuesday morning.
"Do you know the date and time your work on this earth will be completed?" he asked those seated before him to consider.
Saturday's service concluded with a video presentation about Dana Stewart's life produced by Carlson Funeral Home, which was in charge of the arrangements.
There was soft laughter as a pregnant Dana Stewart struck a silhouette pose with her step-father, Dennis Dye, in one of the pictures.
Among the floral arrangements present at Mrs. Stewart's services was a vase of hand-made roses created by Stucky students.
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