SMOCK, Ilo Marie (1909-2005)

SMOCK, SAMPSON, ANDERSON, KLOTZBACH, DEAN, WILHITE, WINTERHALTER

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 6/29/2013 at 16:30:14

Ilo Marie Smock, 95, of Belmond, died on Monday, February 21, 2005, at the Belmond Health Care Center.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, March 2, at 10:30 a.m., at the Evangelical Free Church in Belmond, with the Rev. Patrick Kennedy officiating.

Burial will take place in the Ell Township Cemetery in Klemme. Visitation will be from 6-8:00 p.m., on Tuesday, March 1, at the Dugger-Ewing Funeral Home, 111 Luick Lane South in Belmond and one hour prior to the service at the church.

Ilo, the daughter of Levi and Esther (Sampson) Klotzbach, was born on October 16, 1909, in Giard. She attended a country school in Froelich. In 1928, she married William Anderson.

In 1939 she married Leslie Smock. The couple made their home in the Klemme and Kanawha area where Ilo worked as a waitress and in a bakery. After the death of Leslie in 1962, Ilo moved to Wisconsin in 1964. She became a resident
of the Belmond Care Center in 2001.

Ilo enjoyed knitting, crocheting, growing flowers, and working in the garden. She especially loved fishing in Canada with her family. She was a member of the Rebbekahs, DAV, IOOF and the 4-H Club.

Survivors include her four sons, Willis and his wife, Charlene Anderson, George Anderson, Darrel and his wife, Judy Smock, Leslie and his wife, Cathy Smock; a daughter, Sheryl and her husband, George Dean; 24 grandchildren; 55
great-grandchildren; and 17 great-great-grandchildren.

Survivors also include two brothers, Floyd Klotzbach and Louis and his wife, Janet Klotzbach; and a sister, Phyllis Wilhite; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Leslie Smock in 1962; a daughter, Doreen Winterhalter in January of 2005; a son, Noel Anderson at the age of 8 years; two brothers, Walter and Alan Klotzbach; and her parents.