Phyllis June Sterler 1937-2010

STERLER, MOHLENKAMP, KAMIES, JOHNSON, VAN AALSBURG, KRUGER, SCHIEBER, GRAVE

Posted By: Darcy Schultz (email)
Date: 3/26/2012 at 01:52:50

Phyllis Sterler

Visitation:
Monday, July 19, 2010
2:00 PM until 7:00 PM
Sanborn Funeral Home
401 Main St.
P.O. Box 540
Sanborn, IA 51248

Service:
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
10:00 AM
American Lutheran Church
352 Center St.
Melvin, IA

Phyllis June (Mohlenkamp) Sterler was born June 11, 1937 in rural Melvin, Iowa, to Emory Mohlenkamp and Henrietta (Kamies) Mohlenkamp. She attended the Melvin Community School and graduated in 1955. She then received her teaching degree from Iowa State Teacher’s College in Cedar Falls, Iowa in 1957. Thereafter, she received her B.A. from Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa. She taught elementary education in Cherokee, Iowa for one year and in the Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn School District for thirty-five years.

On June 4, 1958, she was united in marriage to Ronald Sterler at the American Lutheran Church in Melvin, Iowa. To this union two daughters were born, Regina and Paula. Ron and Phyllis farmed in rural Melvin and lived in Sanborn, Iowa for forty-five years before moving to Lake Park, Iowa in 2005, where they built their retirement home on the shores of Silver Lake. She was a life-long active member of the American Lutheran Church of Melvin, Iowa. She was very active within the congregation by holding various positions of the church council; participated in different bible studies through the church; was a member of the women’s group; and was the organist in the church for many years.

Phyllis was the Co-Vice President of the Historical Society of Lake Park, Iowa; a member of the Women’s Federated Club of Lake Park, Iowa; and Co-chairman of the Cluster 1 Board of the Western Iowa Synod Women of the ELCA. Phyllis and her husband, Ron, serve as the Well Project Coordinators for the Western Iowa Synod ELCA “Water 4 Tanzania”.

She is survived by her husband, Ronald; her daughters and their spouses, Regina and Randy Johnson of Lake Park, IA, and Paula and Ken Van Aalsburg of Sheldon, IA, eight grandchildren, Amanda Kruger (and Joey), Benjamin Johnson, Ryan Kruger, Kenneth Johnson, Kyle Kruger, Kristina Johnson, and Ashley and Kelsey Van Aalsburg; two great-granddaughters, Marissa Jo and Adelynn June Kruger; a sister, and her husband, Eileen and Jim Grave; two brothers-in-law and their spouses, Roger and Joanne Sterler, Robert and Arlene Sterler, two sisters-in-law, Madonna Verrips Feyerabend, and Marilyn Ennema Rees and her husband John; several nieces and nephews; other relatives and many friends.

Phyllis enjoyed playing with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, attending sporting, music, and educational events of her grandchildren, reading books, crocheting, fishing, golfing, playing bridge, watching the sunrises and sunsets over the lake, traveling to Texas to Trophy Gardens in the winter months, traveling with her husband, Ron, to different places of the world, and doing mission work in Tanzania Africa. She was a very special part of each one of her grandchildren's lives.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister and brother-in-law, Norma and Duane Schieber; and her father-in-law and mother-in law, John and Frances Sterler.

In loving memory of
Phyllis June Sterler
Born ~ June 11, 1937
Died ~ July 15, 2010
Age ~ 73 years 1 month 4 days

Funeral Service
10:00 a.m. Tuesday, July 20, 2010
American Lutheran Church
Melvin, Iowa

Officiating ~ Rev. Judy Johnson
Bishop Michael Last
Rev. Jay Grave
Organist ~ Fay Schall
Pianist ~ Rose Davis
Soloist ~ Bob Floss
"Borning Cry"
"On Eagles’ Wings"
Congregational Singing
"Morning Has Broken" (Insert)
"Amazing Grace" #448

Pallbearers
(Lcpl) Benjamin Johnson Ryan Kruger
Kenneth Johnson Kyle Kruger
Joey Kruger Kerwin Sterler

Honorary Pallbearers
Amanda Kruger Kristina Johnson
Ashley Van Aalsburg Kelsey Van Aalsburg

Flower Attendants
Madonna Feyerabend Marilyn Rees Joanne Sterler Arlene Sterler

Ushers
Paul Mohr Lee Schmidt Brad Knock Mike Seivert

Burial
Gilman Township Cemetery
Ashton, Iowa