Clara Mabel Stiles

1909 - 2002  (92 years)

• Name	Clara Mabel Stiles
  Born	5 Sep 1909	Minneapolis, Hennepin Co, Minnesota, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	2 Jul 2002	Britton, Marshall Co, South Dakota, USA
  Person ID	I30016	A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
  Last Modified	22 Mar 2009

  
  

  Father	Frederick Aaron Stiles,   b. 22 Oct 1875, River Falls, Pierce Co, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 2 Oct 1945, , Marshall Co, South Dakota, USA  (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Clara Adele Goebel,   b. 1 Sep 1876, Glencoe, , Minnesota, USA ,   d. 7 Sep 1909  (Age 33 years)
  Married	12 May 1908
  Family ID	F11955	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Moritz Edward Wismer,   b. 1 Oct 1903, Britton, Marshall Co, South Dakota, USA ,   d. 1963, Britton, Marshall Co, South Dakota, USA  (Age 59 years)
  Married	1930
  Last Modified	22 Mar 2009
  Family ID	F11956	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Roger Finley Neff,   d. 23 May 2000
  Married	1966	Tucson, Pima Co, Arizona, USA
  Last Modified	22 Mar 2009
  Family ID	F11957	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  June 2008 Information on this family was kindly contributed by Clark W., grandson of Clara. Email address: clark(at)brittonsd.com http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=marshallcounty&id=I19901 M. Neff, 92, Britton, died Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at her home. A memorial service will be held Monday, July 8, at 10:30 a. m. at the United Methodist Church in Britton. Pastor Tim Vorlage will officiate. Clara Mabel Stiles was born Sept. 5, 1909, at St. Paul, MN, to Frederick and Clara (Goebel) Stiles. Her mother died at her birth, and Clara spent her childhood with her maternal grandparents in St. Paul and summers in Britton with her father, who ran a hardware store at the time. She married Moritz E. Wismer June 23, 1930, in St. Paul. Together they ran the family lumber yard in Britton where she kept the business books until he died in 1963. After his death she built apartments and a house in Britton. While in Britton Clara was a member of the Britton Study Club, Home Garden Club, and Rebecca Lodge. She worked for the Red Cross during World War II, and also as a nurse's aid at the Britton Hospital. She was active in the Methodist Church, teaching Sunday School, as a pianist for church services, and in the Methodist Women's Society. In 1965 she moved to Arizona. She married Roger Neff of Indiana in Tucson, AZ, in 1966. They lived in Tucson and Show Low, and enjoyed square dancing and traveling across the country in their motor home for many years. They returned to Bloomington, IN, in 1995 and then to Britton in 1996 and lived at Spruce Court for a time. Roger died May 23, 2000. At the time of her death she was living in her own home with the assistance of Velda Bukaske, Elaine Juelfs, and Gloria Krutsinger. She enjoyed researching and recording family history, doing craft projects in crocheting and other mediums, collecting postage stamps, corresponding with friends and relatives, and, in the last year, keeping up with the outside world via the Internet. She is survived by two sons, Richard (Elaine Bandt) Wismer and Charles (Colleen Sieverts) Wismer, Britton; three step-children, 13 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husbands, parents, and one step-granddaughter.