Ethel Fern (Stille) CARLSON

CARLSON, STILLE, GAST, QUINN, RIFFLE, BAHLING, BIER, BRIDGES

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/20/2011 at 11:26:11

March 19, 1908 -- February 17, 2011

CLEAR LAKE, IA - Ethel Fern Carlson, 102, of Clear Lake, died Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011, at Oakwood Care Center, Clear Lake. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22, at the United Methodist Church, Clear Lake, with the Rev. Diana Hoover officiating. Interment will be at Ell Twp Cemetery, Klemme. Visitation will be Monday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, and then one hour before the service on Tuesday at the church. Family suggests memorials to Clear Lake Library or United Methodist Church, Clear Lake.

Fern was born March 19, 1908, the daughter of John Joseph and Clara (Gast) Stille rural Klemme. She was baptized and a member of Liberty Methodist Church, Klemme. She attended rural country school and then graduated from Klemme High School in 1926. Following high school she attended Iowa State Teachers College where she obtained her teachers certificate. She taught for five years in country school. Fern married Arthur Edward Carlson May 3, 1933, on the Stille family farm rural Klemme. They moved to a farm south of Clear Lake. She enjoyed crocheting, traveling, crafts, playing cards, gardening and growing violets. She was a member of United Methodist Church, Clear Lake; charter member of United Methodist Women Circle and charter member of rural Lakettes.

Fern is survived by her daughter Carol Carlson, Clear Lake; special nephew Marlyn Carlson, Clear Lake; special nieces, Marion Quinn, Coralville, and Karen Riffle, Macomb, Ill.; sister-in-law Grace Stille, Klemme; special friend Pat Bahling, Clear Lake, and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by parents, husband, two sisters, Gertrude Bier and Lucille Bridges and four brothers, Quintin, Kermit, Virgil and George Stille. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St., Clear Lake, IA.

Mason City Globe Gazette - Iowa
February 19, 2011