Carroll Elno Fix

Carroll Elno Fix, 88, of St. Louis, MO passed away at his home on November 12, 2025 surrounded by his loving family.

Mass of Christian Burial is PENDING at St. Bonaventure Catholic Church in Columbus. Interment will be in the St. Patrick/Joseph Cemetery in rural Platte Center, Nebraska

In lieu of plants and flowers, memorial are suggested to the Arbor Day Foundation https://www.arborday.org/

He was born at the family home in Platte Center, NE on January 9, 1937 to Elno and Magdalen (nee Liebig) Fix.

He spent the first few months of his life there until the age of four, when the family moved to Burbank, California as his dad got a job at Lockheed Martin. They spent a brief time in Kansas City after and then returned to Nebraska, landing in Omaha. Their final destination was Columbus, NE where he attended St. Bonaventure graduating in 1955.

After high school, Carroll enlisted in the Air Force and was part of the Black Sheep battalion in Osaka, Japan. He received an associates degree from Platte Community College, landing a job Behlens back in Columbus. He ultimately spent the bulk of his career at the Union Pacific Railroad while also helping his dad at Fix Motor Clinic in Columbus. Carroll met Mary Ann Gaspers in 1962 and they married in May of 1963 at Holy Family Church in Lindsay, NE. They spent their first few months at Carroll’s parent’s in Columbus until they found a duplex apartment. They ultimately bought their first family home on 20th Street near the Ag Park and remained there for about 15 years raising two daughters, Michelle and Christine, into their teen years before moving to Fremont, NE when Carroll was transferred.

Carroll’s second transfer took the family to Spokane, WA in 1984 where they remained for four years, moving to St. Louis, MO in 1988 where he worked at the UPRR headquarters in downtown St. Louis.

Carroll was a voracious reader of anything from classics to thrillers, a passionate stamp collector, an avid puzzler - both the crossword and jigsaw variety - and loved nature. So much so that when he helped his eldest daughter move from Seattle to New York, they drove through Yellowstone, stopping to enjoy the sites and take in the fireworks display since it was the 4th of July. He also loved to travel. He enjoyed and cherished trips to New York to visit his eldest and also to Germany when his youngest daughter, Christine married her husband Bo Ott. His travels fed into his love of history and antiquities. He thoroughly enjoyed collecting memorabilia from the museums and historic sites he visited.

Carroll love to socialize. Barbecues, basement parties, family reunions, card nights, holidays, and spontaneous get-togethers would find him laughing, joking, and having a great time. He was quite literally the life of the party and his robust laugh was a warm invitation to join in the good times. He was kind, generous, intelligent, and an amazing dad and role model teaching his daughters the fine arts of laying sod, putting up drywall, building an outdoor tool shed and more. He was a great listener later in life, though his yearbook photo was captioned “talkative” and he had an innate ability to make friends with everyone.

A hidden talent came to light later in life when he started creating beautiful work on his scroll saw machine in his late 70s. With patience and precision, he created Christmas ornaments, crosses, baskets, and so much more. There is a chasm in the family that will be felt for many years. He is survived by his wife Mary Ann, and his two daughters, Michelle and Christine, as well as his son-in-law Bo Ott. Anyone who met Carroll, met a friend.