Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Ilo E. Roberts Stickel

Jan. 25, 1920 - Sept. 1, 2008

 

South Bend Tribune 9/3/2008
OSCEOLA - Ilo E. Roberts Stickel, 88, of 55170 Belair Street, died at 2:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 1st, in Hubbard Hill Estates. She was born on January 25, 1920, in Bellwood, IL, to Frank and Clara (Hennings-Zimmerman) Plummer. On May 25, 1940, in Elkhart, IN, she married Dalton D. Roberts, who died on November 19, 1976, in Alabama. She then married Harold Stickel on October 31, 1980, in Elkhart IN, who died in 1994 in Elkhart. Ilo graduated in 1938 from Wolcottville High School. She was a life member of the Willow Creek United Methodist Church in Mishawaka. She enjoyed doing crafts, ceramics and listening to music. She is survived by a daughter, Pamela A. (Larry) Kyle of Osceola, IN; a son, Jeffrey A. (Maureen Dabrowski) Roberts of Osceola; eight grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren; a companion, Wayne Miller of Mishawaka; and sisters, Ethel (Charles) Wolf of Elkhart and Charlotte (Thomas) Garl of Elkhart. She was preceded in death by a brother, Frank Plummer Jr., and a sister, Dorothy McCloud.

 

Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 6th, in Zimmerman-Inman Funeral Home, Osceola Chapel, 1109 Lincoln Way W., Osceola, with Rev. Floran Mast and Rev. Clyde Trumbauer. Burial will be at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5th, in the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society or to Willow Creek United Methodist Church, Mishawaka.