Virginia Ann (Veldhouse) STILLE

STILLE, VELDHOUSE, MASON, ANDERSON, SKOGERBOE, BARILLAS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/19/2007 at 20:02:06

October 23, 1997
Mason City (Iowa) Globe Gazette

BRITT - Virginia A. Stille, 60, of Britt, died Tuesday (Oct. 21, 1997) at the Methodist Hospital, Rochester, Minn. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the United Methodist Church, Goodell, with the Rev. Jerry Robertson officiating. Burial will be in Amsterdam Township Cemetery, Goodell. Visitation will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. today at the Cataldo Funeral Home, 160 E. Fourth St., Garner.

Virginia Ann Stille, the daughter of Paul C. and Florence M. (Mason) Veldhouse, was born May 17, 1937, in Belmond. She attended a one-room rural schoolhouse in Avery Township until she was 9 and graduated from Goodell High School in 1954. She attended college at Iowa State University in Ames. On July 8, 1955, she was married to Robert R. Stille in Goodell. While Bob was in the U.S. Army, they made their home in Arlington, Va., and Fort Sheridan, Ill. In October of 1958, they moved to Goodell where they farmed. In the spring of 1962, they moved west of Klemme and continued farming where Virginia was an active partner in the farming operation from chasing cattle to driving tractors. In October of 1996, they moved to Eagle Lake. She enjoyed her husband, Bob, and her three "little girls" Laurie, Linda and Lisa. She also enjoyed fishing with Bob, bowling with her friends, bowling tournaments, trips on Labor Day weekend to Lake Superior, watching Bob play softball for Butter Top and Sunday dinners with her family. She was a member of the United Methodist Church in Goodell, Ladies Aid, Garner Women's Bowling Association and the Klemme Girl Scouts where she was a scout leader for 16 years.

She is survived by her husband, Bob Stille, of Britt; three daughters, Laurie S. Anderson and her husband, Doug, and their children, Brittany and Aaron,of Nevada; Linda S. Skogerboe and her husband, Mark, and their children, Anna and Amy of Goodell; and Lisa S. Barillas and her husband, Chris, and their son, Nicholas, of Maxwell; and her parents, Paul and Florence Veldhouse of Goodell.