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Lena Mathilda Stockton, 92, of Parma, died Monday, February
10, 1992, at a Nampa Retirement Center. Funeral services
will be held at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, February 25, 1992, at
Kirkpatrick Memorial Community Church, Parma, with Rev. Kirk
Kestler officiating.
Interment will
follow at Lower Boise Cemetery, Parma. Services are
under the direction of Dakan Funeral Chapel, Parma.
Mrs. Stockton was born October 28, 1899, in Horseshoe Bend,
Idaho, the second of five children born to Martin and Cora
Smidt Olsen. In 1920, she married Walter Volkmer of
Montour, Idaho.
A short time later, the
family business was sold and they moved to Nampa. In
1921, they became the first residents of the newly established
town of Marsing. They built and operated a general
merchandise store, Volkmer and Son, where they also operated
the U.S. Post Office.
Lena was a
charter member of the Wo-He-Lo Club, a community service club
that also sponsored weekly card parties for many years and
housed the Marsing Library. The Volkmers were divorced
in 1942.
On January 16, 1946, Lena
married Pat Stockton of Parma. This happy union lasted
thirty-two years until Pat's death in 1978. They had a
dairy farm and farmed. near Parma. The Stocktons donated
to the City of Parma, the land on which Old Fort Boise is
located.
When her health began to decline, Lena moved to
the Karcher Estates Assisted Care Center and later to the
Health Care Center.
She is survived by
two daughters and sons-in-law, Dorothea (Vickie) and Morgan
Richards and Dorolene and Ray Obendorf, all of Parma; five
grandchildren, Morgan Richards of Boise, Bill Richards of
Longmont, Colorado, Teresa Obendorf Clark of Beaverton,
Oregon, Nancy Richards of Caldwell and Greg Obendorf of Parma;
six great grandchildren; a sister and brother-in-law, Anna and
John Fry of Horseshoe Bend and a special niece, Coralee Olsen
Hart of Ontario, Oregon.
She was
preceded in death by her husband, her parents and three
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