MARTHA AUGUSTINE MEYER STOLL

MARTHA AUGUSTINE STOLL, 87, A RESIDENT OF LIVING COMMUNITY OF SAINT JOSEPH, PASSED FROM THIS LIFE MONDAY, JANUARY 21 2008.

MARTHA, THE OLDEST OF 12 CHILDREN WAS BORN APRIL 8, 1920, TO JOHN AND ANNA MEYER ON THE FARM TWO MILES EAST OF CONCEPTION, MISSOURI. SHE WAS BAPTIZED AT THE CONCEPTION MISSOURI BASILICA THE SAME DAY AS HER BIRTH. SHE ATTENDED SCHOOL AT WILD CAT, WHICH LATER WAS CALLED SAINT MARY’S.

DURING WORLD WAR II, SHE WORKED AT AN AMMUNITION PLANT IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI AND LATER AT A POST EXCHANGE AT VICTORVILLE, CALIFORNIA. THEREAFTER SHE WAS A HOMEMAKER.

ON MAY 24, 1944 SHE MARRIED LEO J. STOLL AT THE CONCEPTION MISSOURI BASILICA. HE WAS DECEASED AUGUST 11, 2005 AFTER BEING A LIFETIME FARMER IN THE CONCEPTION AND STANBERRY, MISSOURI AREAS. THEY MOVED TO SAINT JOSEPH IN 1987 AND THEY BECAME MEMBERS OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CATHOLIC CHURCH. SHE ALSO HAD BEEN A MEMBER OF SAINT ANNE’S ALTAR SOCIETY IN STANBERRY.

SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS, SISTER, AMELIA AND BROTHERS, ROGER AND LINUS.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE THREE DAUGHTERS, CLARA FREDERICK AND HUSBAND KARL OF KING CITY, MO.; CAROL MATUSEDKI AND HUSBAND EDWARD J. OF KEY LARGO, FL.; AND DIANNA LARSON AND HUSBAND JOHN OF MOUNT AYR, IOWA; A GRANDDAUGHTER, SARAH (FREDERICK) HELM AND HUSBAND RYAN OF SMITHVILLE, MO.; TWO GRANDSONS, HANS AND LOGAN LARSON OF MOUNT AYR; THREE BROTHERS, HERMAN AND VICTOR MEYER OF STANBERRY, MO.; AND STEPHEN MEYER OF GUILFORD, MO.; FIVE SISTERS, RITA FISHER OF SAINT JOSEPH, MO.; URSULA DUNZER OF OVERLAND PARK, KS.; AUGUSTA POJE OF ROACH, MO.; VIOLA GINTHER OF STANBERRY, MO.; AND JOAN RUNDE OF LIBERTY, MO. AND NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.

ROSARY WAS A 9:30 A.M. SATURDAY AT OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CATHOLIC CHURCH FOLLOWED BY A MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL AT 10 A.M. INTERMENT WAS AT 1:30 P.M. SATURDAY AT SAINT COLUMBA CEMETERY, CONCEPTION, MISSOURI.