Stover, Randall 1919-2001

STOVER, PUHLMANN, FRERICKS

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 10/20/2008 at 20:00:07

Randall Stover

LE MARS, Iowa -- Randall Stover, 82, of Le Mars died Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2001, at Brentwood Good Samaritan Center in Le Mars.

Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Presbyterian United Church of Christ in Le Mars. Burial will be in Hospers Cemetery, Hospers, Iowa. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. Friday, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m. and Masonic Rites at 7 p.m., at Mauer-Johnson Funeral Home in Le Mars.

Randall S. Stover was born Sept. 17, 1919, in Hospers, the son of William and Martha (Puhlmann) Stover. He attended school in the Hospers area.

Randall and Helen Frericks were united in marriage on June 7, 1941, in Granville, Iowa. Randall served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946. He served overseas in the European Theater with the 83rd Armored Group and saw action during the Normandy Invasion and the Battle of the Bulge. Helen and Randall moved to Le Mars in 1946 to purchase and operate the ice plant at 201 4th Ave. NE, near the fairgrounds. With the onset of refrigeration in the late 1950s, the ice business gave way to an ice and roller skating rink, followed by an appliance business at the same location. Finally, in the mid 1960s, they began Stover's Furniture, which they operated until their retirement in 1992.

Randall was a member of Presbyterian United Church of Christ, the former Giblem Lodge 322, now known as Floyd Lodge 537, of the Masonic Lodge, American Legion Wasmer Post 241 and Fraternal Order of the Eagles.

He will be lovingly remembered by his wife; a son and his wife, William and Carol of Clifton, Va.; three daughters and their husbands, Randa and William DeVos of Cabot, Ark., Debra and Arnold Sitzmann of Grayson, Ga., and Terri Stover-Cramer and Terry Cramer of Eau Claire, Wis.; 13 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; a sister, LaVada Thomas of Sun Lakes, Ariz.; and a brother, Dale of Hospers.

He was preceded in death by his parents; an infant daughter; and two brothers, Vincent and Melvin.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal; part of the Darrell E. Obituary Collection