Illene Halvorson[1]
1919 - 2012 (93 years)
Person ID: I6981 "Hessevaag-Bakke" | Last Modified: 24 Mar 2022
1910 - 1992 (81 years)-
Name Illene Halvorson Gender Female Birth 1 Mar 1919 Died 16 Jun 2012 Ostrander, Fillmore County, Minnesota, USA 
Buried Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Lime Springs, Howard County, Iowa, USA -
Parents
Father John Torger Halvorson (ID:I6978)
b. 1888
d. 1952, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, USA (Age 64 years) Mother Mabel G Huseby Olson (ID:I6975)
b. 17 Nov 1892, Wadena, Wadena County, Minnesota, USA
d. 26 May 1980, Mount Vernon, Skagit County, Washington, USA (Age 87 years) -
Family
Husband Merle A Stockdale (ID:I7007)
b. 2 Mar 1919
d. 14 Aug 2002 (Age 83 years)Marriage 25 Dec 1942 Children + 1. Living (ID:I7008) + 2. Living (ID:I7009) -
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Siblings4 sisters -
Event Map
Died - 16 Jun 2012 - Ostrander, Fillmore County, Minnesota, USA 
Buried - - Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Lime Springs, Howard County, Iowa, USA = Link to Google Earth 
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Source Citations
- [FIND-A-GRAVE] Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92243955/illene-stockdale.
Funeral services for Illene Stockdale will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 20, 2012, at the United Methodist Church in Cherry Grove. Burial will take place in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Lime Springs, Iowa.
Visitation will be held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. today, June 19, at the Hindt Funeral Home in Spring Valley, and will continue at the church for one hour prior to the service.
Illene Stockdale, 93, of Lime Springs, Iowa, died Saturday, June 16, 2012, at the Ostrander Nursing Home.
Illene was a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother who was a living model of strong faith, love and forgiveness that is a continuing legacy, passed on to each generation of her family.
She was the third of five girls who lived in the railroad village of Proctor, near Duluth. John and Mabel Halvorson, her mother and father, and two older sisters carried her around in a shoe box because she was so small. Later came two younger sisters. As young women they scattered all over the world in the work and ministry they chose. They communicated often with letters and calls. In later years they enjoyed getting together every year at the hot springs in Glenwood Springs, Colo. In her early 20's she worked for the Pillsbury family at both of their homes in Minnesota and Florida.
She married Merle Stockdale on Christmas Day 1942. Sheldon was born Sept. 9, 1944, they moved to California, for several years while Merle served in the Navy. Together they learned leather craft tooling making and selling leather goods and purses which they sold for over $100 each. After Merle was discharged from the Navy in 1947, they returned to Minnesota to buy a farm in York. Sharon was born on Jan. 9, 1948. Illene, a city girl learned how to be a farmer's wife, learning gardening, canning and raised over 1,000 white Leghorns chickens and selling their eggs. They moved to Denver, Colo., in 1965, to be closer to her daughter, Sharon and their young grandchildren, Jennifer was three and Daniel was a newborn.
Her son, Sheldon and daughter-in-law, Carol and their children, Scott, David and Tamara also have fond memories of their grandma on the farm that they will treasure forever. She so loved being a Grandma!
She became a great-grandma at 76 to Jennifer's first, Mylo on Oct 20, 1995, and then came Brendan Dec 26, 1999, Scott's first son. Ahlyas, Jennifer's 2nd was born Aug 3, 2000, Julian, Daniel's son was born Aug 11, 2004. Scott's 2nd son, Judah was born Sept. 9, 2004, for a total of five great-grandchildren and five grandchildren. She never shied away from enjoying amusement park slides, rides and go carts with her grandchildren.
The most important legacy she left us was her deep faith in Christ and her example of love and unconditional forgiveness.
Living in Denver at 46 years old she went back to school attending Arapahoe Community College earning her LPN and then her Registered Nursing degree. She worked at various hospitals and Director of Nurses at two large nursing homes in the Denver area. She loved and cared for several foster girls in Minnesota and Colorado sharing her deep faith with them, they all found a relationship with our God because of her.
After 15 years in Denver they moved back to their Minnesota farm. She became Director of Nurses at Spring Valley Nursing Home. It was very important to her that she hired capable people who were compassionate in their care of the residents. As Director of Nurses she would stay with those who had no family throughout the night and prayed with them in their final hours. Her caring love and fairness earned deep respect by those who worked for her. She retired in 1986 as Director of Nurses in Spring Valley Nursing Home.
Merle and Illene traveled around the World and enjoyed several cruises. After Merle passed away in 2002 she lived on the farm with Sheldon and Carol for four years. In 2006 she became a resident of Ostrander Nursing Home until she went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, June 16, 2012. She was an incredible wife, mother, grandma and great grandma. She will be dearly missed.
She is survived by her children; Sheldon (Carol) Stockdale of Harmony and Sharon Stockdale of Parker, Colo.; five grandchildren, Scott (Heather) Stockdale and their children, Brendan and Judah of Cresco, Iowa, David Stockdale of Harmony, Tamara Stockdale of Minneapolis, Jennifer Hohnstein and children, Mylo and Ahlyas of Parker, Colo., and Daniel Hohnstein of Littleton, Colo. She is also survived by one sister-in-law, Elaine Stockdale of Ostrander.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Merle, and four sisters; Dorothy, Marian, Tudy and Ruthie.
The family prefers memorials to the Cherry Grove United Methodist Church or the Ostrander Nursing Home.
Obituary and photo from Rochester Post Bulletin, June 18, 2012.