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- MABLE PARKER
RONAN -- Mable Estella "Stella" Parker died at St. Luke Extended Care here on Dec. 25, 2003. She was born to Lon and Catherine (Mathis) Stonehocker near Wyndmere, ND, on Oct. 24, 1905, the third of 10 children. She moved with her family to the Mission Valley in 1913. They traveled by the steamship Klondike to the shoreline east of Polson. They rented part of the Dixon Ranch, setting up a canvas-roofed "dugout" for a two-room home. Stella attended the Ducharme School until the family moved to a farm near Pablo. She completed schooling through the 11th grade at the Pablo schools, then graduated from Ronan High School in 1924. She married Frank G. Parker on June 15, 1927, at Round Butte. They spent the next few years in central California. They returned to Montana in the spring of 1934, settling in the Round Butte area west of Ronan Stella spent her life in the hard work of farm life, enjoying her garden and flowers, especially roses. She was a member of the Round Butte Women's Club. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by three sisters, five brothers, one grandson and one great-grandson. She is survived by her children, Eileen and spouse Roy D. Waugh (Butte), Vivian Aylesworth (Ronan), and Glen Parker and spouse Jeniel (Saratoga Springs, UT); and one brother, Lloyd Stonehocker (Seattle). Additional survivors are 10 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and seven great great-grandchildren. Services were held at the Ronan Christian Missionary Alliance Church on Dec. 31.
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