STELLA EUDORA (nee: SOKVITNE) WILLIAMSON, PASSED AWAY OCTOBER 9, 2000 AT VULCAN EXTENDICARE AT THE AGE OF 84 YEARS.
STELLA WAS BORN FEBRUARY 17, 1916 TO NELS AND JOHANNA SOKVITNE. SHE ATTENDED PLATEAU AND SNAKE VALLEY SCHOOLS, AS WELL AS ONE YEAR OF SCHOOL IN VANCOUVER WHEN THE FAMILY MOVED THERE IN 1928. SHE LATER WENT TO THE OLDS SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE AND IN 1933 SHE RECEIVED HER DIPLOMA IN HOME ECONOMICS. STELLA MARRIED JERGEN HENRICKSON IN 1935 AND TOGETHER THEY LIVED IN THE ARMADA – LOMOND AREA, FARMING AND RAISING THEIR CHILDREN LEROY, MARVIN AND DELLA. THE FAMILY MOVED INTO LOMOND IN 1944 AND RESIDED THERE UNTIL JERGEN’S DEATH IN 1956. STELLA CONTINUED TO LIVE IN TOWN AND IN 1960 SHE MARRIED LLOYD WILLIAMSON. THEY SOON MOVED TO LLOYD’S FARM EAST OF LOMOND AND STELLA SPENT MANY HAPPY HOURS WORKING IN HER YARD AND GARDEN. LLOYD AND STELLA PURCHASED A HOME IN BROOKS IN 1988, BUT CONTINUED TO FARM, TRAVELLING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE TWO LOCATIONS FOR SEVERAL YEARS. STELLA SPENT MANY MONTHS WITH HER ILL DAUGHTER IN VULCAN AND AFTER DELLA’S DEATH IN MAY 1998, HER OWN HEALTH BEGAN TO DETERIORATE. IN SEPTEMBER 1998 SHE MOVED INTO THE BROOKS NURSING HOME AND THEN TO VULCAN EXTENDICARE IN JULY 2000 WHERE SHE HAS RESIDED UNTIL HER PASSING.
STELLA WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE GOODWILL SERVICE CLUB OF LOMOND AND BELONGED TO THE LADIES AUXILIARY TO THE LEGION IN VULCAN.
BELOVED WIFE OF LLOYD WILLIAMSON OF BROOKS, LOVING MOTHER OF TWO SONS LEROY AND MARVIN (HELENE) HENRICKSON, THREE GRANDCHILDREN LORNE (CONNIE) HENRICKSON ALL OF LOMOND, LOREEN (ROD) ORMON OF VANCOUVER, KEVIN DORSEY, FIVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, THREE BROTHERS KEN (FLORENCE) SOKVITNE OF VULCAN, LEONARD (MURIEL) SOKVITNE, EDWIN SOKVITNE ALL OF LOMOND, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
FUNERAL SERVICE FRIDAY AT 2:00 P.M. AT THE BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH LOMOND WITH PASTOR ED SUMMERS OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT IN LOMOND CEMETERY.
HONORARY BEARERS WERE MAY CHAPMAN, MARY LINDSAY, MARGARET OST, FLORENCE SOKVITNE AND KAY WILLIAMSON.
CASKET BEARERS WERE LORNE HENDRICKSON, ROD ORMON, BARRY PAKARNO, DWAIN SOKVITNE, GARY SOKVITNE AND MELVIN WILLIAMSON.
IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE TRIBUTES IN STELLA’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO EITHER THE BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH BOX 238 LOMOND, TOL IGO OR TO THE SUNSHINE DROP IN CENTRE GENERAL DELIVERY LOMOND, TOL IGO.
ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME. DIRECTORS. TELEPHONE 1-403-485-2633. E-MAIL CONDOLENCES TO vulcanfuneralhome@hotmail.com.