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.