Obit: Mueller, Leona (1910 -1996)

Transcriber: Nina Watkins
Email: nina@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Mueller, Westphal, Stafford, Perry, Schulte, Boldt, Stevens

---- Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, WI)

Mueller, Leona

LOYAL – Leona Mueller, 85, Spencer, died Jan. 8, 1996, at St. Joseph’s Hospital hospice home, House of the Dove, in Marshfield.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Loyal, with the Rev. Joseph Kraly officiating. Casket bearers will be Troy Verch, Jasson Schulte, Mark Johnson, Fred Krahn, Kenneth Strohkerch and Alfred Weideman.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Community Funeral Home in Spencer and one hour before the funeral service Wednesday at the church in Loyal.

Leona was born June 30, 1910, to Elmer and Dimple (Westphal) Stafford.

She was married to Arnold Mueller on June 27, 1947, in Pine City, Minn.

She worked at Roddis Lumber Co., Marshfield, during World War II. She then worked on a farm in the town of Loyal for many years until her retirement and then moved to Spencer.

She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Loyal; the Ladies Aid; the Loyal Garden Club; and the Homemakers Club.

She is survived by two sons, David Mueller of Spencer and Richard Perry of Port Ritchie, Fla.; two daughters, Rochelle (Richard) Schulte of Prescott and Patricia Boldt of Port Ritchie, Fla.; eight grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren; one brother, Earl Stafford of Dorchester; and one sister, Bethel Stevens of Richmond Hills, Ga.

She was preceded in death by her husband on Aug. 2, 1993; her parents; three grandchildren; two brothers and two sisters.