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Lillian Stair-Mohler

April 21, 1933 - June 29, 2019

Lillian Martha Annell

Stair-Mohler left her

earthly body for her

heavenly home on June

29, 2019.

A memorial service will

be held at 11:00 am Satur-

day, July 6, at Parkway

Funeral Service, 2330

Tyler Parkway, Bismarck.

Family will greet visitors

one hour prior to the ser-

vice. Cremation has taken

place.

Burial will be at the

Newburg Cemetery on

Sunday, July 7, at 2:00

pm.

Lillian “Lil” was born in

Palermo, ND, on April 21,

1933, the sixth child of

eleven children to Conrad

and Ida Annell. Lil had an

eighth-grade education at

Buffalo Lake School, Man-

itoba. In 1951, she moved

back to North Dakota and

attended business college

in Minot for one year. She

worked for three years for

Westland Oil Co., of

Minot. In 1956, she

worked as a secretary for

an attorney in Bottineau.

Lil married Gerald “Jerry”

Stair on December 1,

1956, and they had four

daughters, Holly, Jamie,

Connie, and Kristi. They

lived on the family farm

in Newburg until Jerry’s

passing in 1991. Lil

moved into Newburg in

1996 then to Bismarck in

2000. Lil met and married

Buddy Mohler on June 10,

2000. The couple spent

winters in Sun City

Center, FL, from 2005 and

moved back to Bismarck

in 2013.

Lil loved music, sing-

ing, playing guitar, accor-

dion and the organ. She

enjoyed bowling, crochet

ing, reading, and travel-

ing. She was

clerk/treasurer for Kane

Twsp as well as Dovre

Lutheran Church and

gaming manager in

Newburg.

She is survived by her

husband, Buddy;

daughters, Holly (Bob)

Wheeler, Jamie Stair, Con-

nie (Jim) Hval, and Kristi

Stair; stepchildren, Kathie

(Dwayne) Schmidt and

Rick (Pam) Mohler;

grandchildren, Heather

(Chad) Feiring, Jody

(Brent) Vogel, Ryan (Jen-

ice) Davidson, Zachary,

Riley and Makena Stair,

Derrick (Alison) Schmidt,

Kristin (Chris) Wetsch,

and Brandon (Qian)

Mohler;

great-grandchildren,

Gavin and Gracelyn Da-

vidson, Makenzie and

Kallie Vogel, Marshall and

Charlie Feiring, and Pax-

ton and Easton Wetsch.

Lil was preceded in

death by both her parents;

three brothers; three sis-

ters; her first husband;

and her son-in-law, Mike

Davidson.

In lieu of flowers,

memorials may be given

to Newburg Cemetery

(Dovre Lutheran Church),

or the North Dakota

Veterans Cemetery, Man-

dan.

Go to www.parkway

funeral.com to share

memories of Lillian and

sign the online guestbook.