STIBAL, Marian 1918-2009
STIBAL, FOX, MARLEY
Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/13/2009 at 21:41:47
Marian Stibal, age 90, of Osage, died Wednesday, May 13, 2009, at the Faith Home in Osage, surrounded by her loving and devoted family.
A Memorial Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 16, 2009, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Osage with Rev. John Moser officiating. Inurnment will be at St. Peter's Cemetery in New Haven. Visitation with the body present will be held from 4:00 to 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home in Osage with a rosary at 4:30 p.m. Cremation will take place following the visitation.
Marian was the oldest daughter of Frank and Winifred (Fox) Marley, born on September 3, 1918, on the family farm north of New Haven. She was educated at Riceville and New Haven schools, and received her teaching certificate in 1937. For six years she taught at local one-room schools. She married Robert E. Stibal, a Riceville High School classmate, in December of 1942. The family farm six miles south of New Haven became the home for their 11 children.
Tragedy struck the Stibal family in 1958 when Robert died suddenly three days after the birth of the youngest child. The older children remember how their New Haven neighbors pitched in to help with the harvest that fall.
To raise her family, Marian updated her teaching certificate by taking night classes at NIACC, UNI, Upper Iowa, University of Minnesota and correspondence classes. She was a teacher at Visitation Grade School in Stacyville. Besides teaching, she also drove the New Haven school bus to Stacyville's Catholic school from 1965-1977. After she retired from teaching, she was the bookkeeper at the New Haven Hardware.
Marian always enjoyed doing things with her family, like dressing up as a clown at the school carnivals and playing her accordion, and having her children perform at school talent shows with songs and dances that she wrote and choreographed.
She not only had to teach her 11 children how to drive a car, milk a cow and bake a cake, she also taught them how to dance the polka, since Marian loved to dance, as did her husband Bob. She was an accomplished oil painter, a gardener, a good card player and friend, a ruthless Scrabble player, and a devoted member of St. Peter's in New Haven and Sacred Heart parish in Osage. She was also devoted to saying the rosary every day.
But above all, her greatest pride was her 11 children. They all remember how she would lead them into church at St. Peter's in New Haven for Sunday Mass, where her family would take up an entire pew. She taught her children love and respect and the importance of working hard. That was the Stibal children's beloved mother Marian.
Marian is survived by all 11 children, Sharon Morton of Port St. Lucie, FL; Mike (Susan) of Coralville; Tom (Yvonne) of Mason City, Mary of Boston, MA; John of Milwaukee, WI; Judy (Dave Mayer) of Osage; Jim (Kathy) of Peoria, IL; Bill (Deb) of Burnsville, MN; Theresa (Neil Hernan) of St. Ansgar; Ann (David Lammers) of Brookline, MA; and Marlene (Gerry Talbot) of Concord, MA; 18 grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and five of her six siblings: Cassie Kloberdanz, Luella Kloberdanz, Gene Marley, Dave Marley, and Sister Ann Marley; and one sister-in-law, Eileen (Stibal) Fox.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Robert; her sister, Madeline Shovein; a son-in-law, Carl Morton; and a step-granddaughter.
Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, Osage, (641) 732-3706.
[Mitchell County Press online, May 13, 2009]
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