Estella C (Avery) Schmidt (1908 - 2001)

Born 9 Apr 1908 in Williams, North Dakota, United States

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Died 15 Oct 2001 at age 93 in Tioga, Williams, North Dakota, United States

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April 9, 1908-Oct. 15, 2001

TIOGA, N.D. - Estella C. "Stella" Schmidt, 93, of Tioga, died Monday, Oct. 15, 2001, at Mercy Medical Center in Williston.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at First Lutheran Church in Tioga. Interment will follow at United Cemetery in Tioga.

Estella, the eldest of 14 children, was born April 9, 1908, in Equality Township, Williams County, the daughter of Frank and Elizabeth (Dahmen) Avery. She was raised in Equality Township and attended school at Ray. As a young woman, she worked for various farmers in the area, cooking and taking care of children.

On Nov. 2, 1927, she was united in marriage with William August "Bill" Schmidt at Wildrose. They farmed and raised their family west of Tioga in Tioga Township. They enjoyed music. Bill played the violin and Stella played the piano at church and also at home. Bill passed away suddenly in 1952. Stella continued to live on the farm and raise her family.

She moved into Tioga in 1969, and worked as a teacher's aide at Tioga Central Grade School for several years, where she enjoyed the young children. She was very proud of the fact that all 12 of her children graduated from high school.

Stella entered the Tioga Assisted Living Facility in 1999. Since June 2001, she had been a patient in Swing Bed at Mercy Medical Center in Williston.

Stella was a 70-year member of the Tioga American Legion Post No. 139 Auxiliary. She also was a member of the Williams County Council on Aging, Tioga Senior Citizens, and the United Cemetery Board. She was an active member of First Lutheran Church in Tioga, where she had served as a Sunday school teacher, on the church council and had been president of the A.L.C.W.

Stella had a very strong faith and she often said she could not have raised her children alone without God's help.

Her hobbies included making rugs on a weaving loom, crocheting doilies and afghans, quilting at the church, reading and playing the piano. She enjoyed playing the piano at the Tioga Nursing home until the age of 92. Her grandchildren will long remember her gingersnap cookies and nector.

Stella is survived by seven sons: LeRoy and his wife, Ginger, of Puyallup, Wash., Donald and his wife, Swany, of Watford City, Harold and his wife, Ione, Richard and his wife, Linda, and Raymond and his wife, Lil, all of Tioga, Kenneth and his wife, Mary, of rural Williston and David and his wife, Kris, of Chehalis, Wash.; four daughters: Helen Hauglie and her husband, Herb, of Everett, Wash., Lorna Oversen of Laurel, Mont., Diana Schmidt of Williston and Linda Schmidt of Bloomington, Minn.; a daughter-in-law, Dorothy Schmidt of Hayden, Idaho; 29 grandchildren; 52 great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; two brothers, Harold and Donald, both in Oregon; four sisters, Loretta Stenehjem of Kingman, Ariz., Irene Pendleton of Crescent City, Calif., Alvina Urban of Spokane and Marge Damer of San Leandro, Calif.; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a son, Delbert; a daughter-in-law, Darlene Schmidt; a son-in-law, Robert Oversen; three granddaughters, Debra, Shelly and Gwendolyn; six brothers, Leonard, Raymond, Wally, Joseph, Francis and Herb; and a sister, Lorrainne.

Friends may call from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Fulkerson Funeral Home in Tioga and for an hour before services Saturday at the church.

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