Phyllis Irene (Schmidt) STATLANDER

STATLANDER, SCHMIDT, GROEN, SUNTKEN, STADTLANDER, BILLS, DECKER, FAABORG, JOHNSON, SMITH

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/3/2014 at 14:56:15

March 10, 1924 --- February 22, 2014

MESERVEY, IA -- Phyllis Statlander, 89, of Meservey, passed away Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, at the Sheffield Care Center. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the First Reformed Church, Meservey, with the Rev. Rodney Meester presiding. Interment will be at the Meservey Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Retz Funeral Home, 201 Ohio, Meservey.

Phyllis Irene Statlander was born March 10, 1924, on the family farm north of Alexander, daughter of Dan R. and Tena (Groen) Schmidt. She was baptized in the First Reformed Church in Meservey and attended country school and graduated from the eighth grade. On Aug. 14, 1943, Phyllis was united in marriage with Herman Statlander at the Meservey First Reformed Church parsonage by Rev. Kampmann. This union was blessed with three children. Phyllis was a homemaker who lovingly cared for her children, tended a large garden with her husband and canned just about everything. She was an excellent cook, and her baking and cooking were only from scratch. In addition to being a homemaker she did work outside the home at times, candling eggs in Alexander, laying carpet at Winnebago Industries and keeping books for her husband's business, D&H Auto.

Phyllis was lifelong member of the First Reformed Church in Meservey. She always had a big garden and is remembered as the best mother, grandma and great-grandma ever. Family was very important to her and she cherished all the family gatherings held over the years.

Left to cherish her memory are her daughter, Patricia (Lloyd) Suntken, Meservey; sons, Jerry (Janette) Stadtlander, Belmond ; Gary (Nancy) Statlander, Mason City; grandchildren: Anjanette (Adam) Bills, Dodge Center, Minn.; Darin (Erin) Suntken, Sheffield, Iowa; Torey (Gwen) Statlander, Owatonna, Minn.; Melissa (Bob) Decker, Mapleton, Minn.; Travis (Sarah) Statlander, Overland Park, Kan.; great-grandchildren: Peyton and Mason Bills; Alexandra, Sage and Dax Suntken; Madelyn and Owen Statlander; Ellie, Thayne, Noah and Casey Decker; Reghan and Gavin Statlander; sister, Shirley Faaborg, Clear Lake, Iowa; brother-in-law: Roman Johnson, Hampton, Iowa; sister-in-law: Deon Stadtlander, Mason City and brother-in-law and sister-in-law: Myron and Sally Stadtlander, Rockford; and numerous nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. Phyllis is preceded in death by her parents, husband, two sisters, Ruth Smith and Wilma Johnson, two brothers, Leonard and Clarence Schmidt, infant sister Berniece; six brothers-in-law and five sisters-in-law. Retz Funeral Home, Meservey, Iowa

Mason City Globe Gazette -- Mason City, Iowa
February 25, 2014