Stoskopf, Frances Arleen (Johnson) 1926 - 2017

STOSKOPF, JOHNSON, JAASTAD, MEHR, GRAYBURN, THORSON, SCHULTZ, HAUGEN, LIPPE

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 1/27/2017 at 11:25:02

Frances A. Stoskopf, age 90, of Decorah, Iowa, died Thursday evening, January 19, 2017 at her home in Decorah.

Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at Decorah Lutheran Church with Rev. Charis Combs-Lay and Rev. David Sorenson. Burial will be in Lutheran Cemetery in Decorah in the spring.

Visitation will be from 4:00-7:00 p.m. Monday, January 23 at Fjelstul Funeral Home in Decorah, and on Tuesday, beginning at 10:00 a.m., one hour before the service, at Decorah Lutheran Church.

Frances Arleen (Johnson) Stoskopf was born September 2, 1926 at home on the family farm near Hauge Lutheran Church in rural Decorah, Iowa, the daughter of Oliver and Helen Gladys (Jaastad) Johnson. She was baptized October 31, 1926 and confirmed in 1940 at Hauge Lutheran Church. She attended Canoe No. 4 Country School and then graduated from Decorah High School with the class of 1946.

Frances married Verl E. Stoskopf May 19, 1956 at Hauge Lutheran Church. To this union three children were born: Vicki, Sherry and Darrel.

Frances worked for Northwestern Bell in Decorah, as a housewife, at Smith Memorial Hospital on Pershing Ave. (now Winneshiek Medical Center serves Decorah) as a Nurse’s Aide, and answered the phone for Stoskopf Oil Company until her retirement.

She was a member of Decorah Lutheran Church. Frances enjoyed playing with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren; her cats; and watching her bird feeders.

She was preceded in death by her husband Verl on September 5, 2001; her father Oliver Johnson in 1974; her mother H. Gladys Johnson in 2010; one brother Orville Johnson in 2006; one sister Vivian Meher in 2014; her brother-in-law Bill Grayburn in 2011; her father-in-law Vernon Stoskopf in 1960 and mother-in-law Bessie Stoskopf in 1999; and her nephew Brent Stoskopf in 1988.

Frances is survived by two daughters, Vicki (Elton) Thorson of Decorah and Sherry (Robert) Schultz of Chaseburg, WI; one son, Darrel Stoskopf of Decorah; one sister, Sharon Haugen of Fort Myers, FL; four grandchildren: Vincent Thorson, Jessica (Rick) Lippe, Quinn Schultz and Clare Schultz: two step-grandchildren, Travis (Mandy) Schultz and Ryan Schultz: six great-grandchildren: Alex, Rashell, Mitchel, Katinka, Isabella and Gracie; step great-grandchildren; two brothers-in-law, Paul (Bev) Stoskopf of Rochester, MN and Ronald (Marcia) Stoskopf of Decorah; two sisters-in-law, Jacquelyn Grayburn of Onalaska, WI and Ann Johnson of Cresco, IA; and by several nieces and nephews.

Source: Fjelstul Funeral Home database

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