Services for Dorothy L. Stimmel, 75, Homedale,
who died Sunday, Dec. 22, at the Caldwell hospital, will be
conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Flahiff Funeral Chapel,
Homedale, by Bishop Steve Carson of the Homedale LDS Church.
Interment will follow at the Wilder Cemetery.
Mrs. Stimmel was born Aug. 31, 1910 at Darlington, Idaho, to
David and Mary Clapp Evans. She moved with her family to
the Arena Valley area and later to Butte, Mont. where she was
reared and educated. She moved to Wilder in the fall of
1933. She married Manford Stimmel on
Sept. 15, 1934, at Caldwell. They moved to Jordan Valley
where they lived until March of 1935 when they moved to
Homedale. They had farmed in the Homedale area since
that time. She enjoyed sewing, quilting and did other
handiwork. She was a member of the
Homedale First Ward Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints and was active in the relief society there. She
had been a 4-H leader in Homedale for many years and was a
member of the Gem Precilla Club. She is
survived by her husband of Homedale; two sons, Mark D. Stimmel
of Homedale and Monty C. Stimmel of Spokane, Wash.; two
daughters, Doreen Underwood of Spokane and Janis Tuha of
Caldwell; a brother, Hal Evans of Nampa; two sisters, Grace
Leavitt of Nyssa and Mel Suiter of Nyssa; 15 grand-children,
10 great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents and four brothers.
Friends may call Thursday from 2 to 8
p.m. and from 9 a.m. until noon Friday at the Flahiff Funeral
Chapel, Homedale. |