Stella Almli

Funeral services: Monday, August 9, 2010 at 10:00 am at the 1st Lutheran Church in Miles City.

Interment: will follow in the family lot at the Custer County Cemetery.

Stella Repp Almli, age 83, of Miles City passed away on August 5, 2010 at the Holy Rosary Health Center in Miles City.

Stella was born on June 19, 1927 in Marsh, Montana, the daughter of George and Pauline (Mittelstaedt) Repp. She was baptized in the Lutheran Church in Marsh, Montana as an infant. The family moved to Gascoyne, North Dakota for Georges job. She was confirmed in the Peace Lutheran Church in Scranton, North Dakota in 1940. She attended school for four years in Gascoyne and then attended schools in Scranton, North Dakota when they moved to the country. She grew up and graduated from Scranton High School in 1945. She then joined the Cadet Nurse Corp in Miles City. Their volunteers came to the school and asked for volunteers in the Corp. She joined the Corp in 1945 and graduated in 1948 from the Presentation School of Holy Rosary Hospital. She met Norman Almli in Miles City and they were married in her home church in Scranton, North Dakota on October 24, 1948. They made Miles City their home. To this union, three children were born: Curt, Susan & Marty.

Stella worked for Holy Rosary Hospital, Garberson Clinic and the Custer County Rest Home. She was a member of the First Lutheran Church, World Mission Circle and Ash Creek Homemakers Club. She loved to play rummikub with friends.

Stella is survived by her children: Curt (Judy) Almli of Issaquah, WA; Susan (Tom) Zagorda and Marty (Jennifer) Almli all of Miles City, MT; five granddaughters: Erin, Angela, Jennifer, Shelby, Jessica and a great granddaughter, Jordan. She also has two grandsons: Jason and Peter and a step great grandson, Evan.

She was preceded in death by her husband Norman Almli in 1998, her parents and a baby brother also she had a still born baby boy.

Funeral services will be held on Monday, August 9, 2010 at 10:00 am at the 1st Lutheran Church in Miles City. Interment will follow in the family lot at the Custer County Cemetery. Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting: www.stevensonandsons.com.

Should friends desire, memorials may be made to the charity of one's choice. Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home of Miles City has been entrusted with the arrangements.