Myra Charlotte (Schlawin) STAHL

STAHL, SCHLAWIN, KATTER, VELAU, CRUMP, KNUTSON, LEMKE, COLE, BOLAND, EENHUIS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/2/2009 at 11:04:16

November 23, 2005

Myra C. Stahl, 91, of Belmond, died on Wednesday, November 16, 2005, at the Belmond Health Care Center. Funeral services were held on Monday, November 21, at the Cataldo Funeral Chapel in Garner, with the Rev. Jeff DeBoer officiating. Music was provided by organist, Beverly Cataldo. Casket bearers were Wayne Stahl, Sam Velau, Steven Waage, Todd Waage, Jordan Knutson, Kevin Stahl, Bradley Stahl and Christopher Stahl. Burial was in the Concord Township Cemetery in Garner. The Cataldo Funeral Home in Garner was in charge of the arrangements.

Myra Charlotte Schlawin, the daughter of Otto A. L. and Mathilda E. (Katter) Schlawin was born on September 3, 1914, on a farm southwest of Garner. She attended school at Liberty Township # 1 and later worked at the Klemme Telephone office. On December 23, 1933, she was married to Lewis E. Stahl at the Peace Reformed Church south of Garner. They farmed southeast of Klemme until 1960 and then moved to Moorecroft, Wyoming, where she was a cook at the school for three years. In 1964, they bought a gas station and restaurant in Goodell, which they operated for 13 years. After retiring in 1977, they moved to Arkansas for seven years and then to an acreage near Forest City. After her husband's death, she moved to Garner and later to Belmond where she lived in the Belmond Apartments. Myra had resided in the Belmond Health Care Center since June of 2001. She was a former member of the Immanuel United Church of Christ in Klemme. She enjoyed crocheting, quilting and her flower garden.

She is survived by her six children, Virgil (Berniece) Stahl of Klemme, Janet (William) Velau of Garner, Juda Crump of Carson City, Nevada, Verlinda (Gilford) Knutson of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, Jim (Darlene) Stahl of Andover, Minnesota and Lewis K. (Mary Jane) Stahl of Cody, Wyoming; 19 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; 3 step-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lewis E. Stahl on May 23 1992; three grandchildren, Joshua Stahl, Kenneth Stahl and Timmy Knutson; her parents; four sisters, Sadie Lemke, Norva Cole, Helena Boland; and her twin sister, Mathilda Eenhuis on April 5, 2005; and twin brothers, Roger Schlawin and Reinhold Schlawin.

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