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Ethel Fern Carlson
1908 - 2011
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.
source: Mason City Globe Gazette, 19 February 2011
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Ethel Fern Stille Carlson: born
19 Mar 1908 Hancock County, Iowa - died 17 Feb 2011 Clear Lake, Cerro Gordo
County, Iowa
Grave marker at Calvary Cemetery, Klemme, Hancock County, Iowa
Daughter of John Joseph Stille, born 1869 - died 1940 and Clara Louisa Gast, born
1883 - died 1957
Husband of: Arthur F Carlson, born 1907 -
died 1965
Sister of:
Gertrude Esther Gast Schaefer Beier (1900-2001)
Quentin Victor Stille (1903-1981)
Kermit Herman Stille (1910-1994)
George Allen Stille (1914-2003)
Lucille LuVergne Stille Bridges (1917-2009)
Virgil C. Stille (1920-2002)
source: Find-A-Grave, memorial# 87673404
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