Lois Evelyn (Smith) Stuart (2010)

HILL, ROBBINS, SMITH, STUART, WHITE

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 11/5/2010 at 15:51:09

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, November 3, 2010

LOIS STUART, Winterset

Lois Evelyn Stuart, 85, of Winterset, passed away Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, at the Madison County Health Care System in Winterset.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 4, at First Christian Church in Winterset. Visitation will be from 3-8 p.m. today (Wednesday, Nov. 3) at Ochiltree Funeral Service & Aftercare, where the family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Burial will be in the Clark Cemetery, rural Macksburg. Memorial contributions in her name to the Madison County 4-H Extension Office will be accepted.

The daughter of Gailen James and Myrlee Leota (White) Smith, Lois was born Feb. 12, 1925, at home in Lincoln Township in Madison County, in a home now owned by the Kordick family. Thereafter, her family moved to a house near the George Mueller farm, and the next move was near the Bond’s family by Pitzer. They then moved to the Ord Community and lastly, her parents moved to Shackley's near Old Pitzer.

After graduating from Winterset High School in 1943, Lois taught country school in Madison County on a dirt road. Following World War II, she married her husband of 52 years, Ronald Louie Stuart on Feb. 2, 1946 at the parsonage of the First Christian Church in Winterset. To this union were born two children, Virginia Ellen Stuart and Ralph Lloyd Stuart.

Lois worked for the United Grocery Store and Biz-Mart in Winterset. For 20 years, she worked for the Madison County Extension Office as a 4-H Aide. She was an active member of the First Christian Church in Winterset where she served as a deacon, elder, Sunday School teacher and was a Christian Women’s Fellowship member and officer. Lois was also a cub scout den mother and 4-H leader for the Douglas Wild Rose Club. She was an active member of the Madison County Historical Society and a former member of the Madison County Antique Club. As many know, Lois was an avid collector of toothpick holders, egg plates and pretty dishes.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Ronald, on Feb. 14, 1998; a brother, Wayne Smith; and a grandson, Rollie Robbins.
Those left to continue her legacy include her children, Virginia Ellen Stuart (husband, Jim Hill) of Thornton, Colo., and Ralph Lloyd Stuart (wife, Jill) of Kootenai, Idaho; 12 grandchildren; a plethora of great- and great-great-grandchildren; and a sister-in-law, Veda Smith.

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