- Mavis Stadstad
Funeral services for Mavis Stadstad were held at 10:00 AM Monday, April 13. Father Marcel Vogel
celebrated the Funeral Liturgy at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Plentywood; Lectors were Norm Lee
and Tori Makela; Gift Bearers were Amanda and Anna Robertson. Organist was Sally Carpenter,
and Cantor was Steve Cybulski; Alanna, Allison, Cara, and Caitlan Stadstad sang "On Eagle's
Wings" accompanied by Jill Stadstad. Interment was in Plentywood Cemetery. Casketbearers were
Seth Dahlke, Jeff Lee, Karl Makela, and Michael, Randall, Stevie, and Weston Stadstad. All the
Raymond community, the staff and residents of Sheridan Memorial Hospital and Nursing Home,
and all of Mavis' other family and friends were regarded as Honorary Bearers. Ushers were Ed
Heisler and Calvin Syme. Mavis died Wednesday afternoon at Sheridan Memorial Nursing Home in
Plentywood; she was 84.
- Born on the family farm north of Raymond October 24, 1924, Mavis was the daughter of Carl and
Antoinette (Corkery) Stadstad. She attended the Collins school, completed 8th grade at the
Raymond school, graduated from Plentywood High School in 1942, and graduated from St. Joseph’
s School of Nursing in Minot in 1946. Mavis worked as a nurse in Billings, and in Great Falls, where
she attended an art school while working as a nurse. Eventually, she decided that while being a
nurse was not what she wanted, she loved working in the health care environment; and returned to
Plentywood where she worked as a housekeeper at Sheridan Memorial until she retired.
At heart, Mavis was always an artist. She often preferred the solitude of being alone with her imagination, drawing, painting, or
developing clay sculptures; and said that “someday” she’d like to try woodcarving. Although she often chose to be alone, she was never
happier than when she was surrounded by her family, especially her nephews and nieces, often enjoying a game of cards.
For many years, she provided a remarkable Easter Egg hunt at the farm for her whole family each person got three hand-made
illustrated clues that led them to their own Easter basket!
Mavis loved the farm, the animals, and savored the silence, surrounded by nature. She loved to talk about the “old times” and seemed
to be the “memory of her family,” reminiscing about the details of everything that several generations of her family and neighbors did.
Never married, Mavis maintained her home in Plentywood until failing health forced her move to Sheridan Memorial Nursing Home last
August 12. Throughout her life she was a devoted member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, and of St. Raymond Guild.
Mavis is survived by her sister, Margaret, Mrs. James Popescu, of Rapid City, South Dakota; and by nieces and nephews: Barbara Lee
and her husband Norman, of Antelope; Steve Stadstad and his wife Kristy, and Randy Stadstad and his wife Jill, all of Plentywood; Sandy
Robertson and her husband Dave, of Walker, Louisiana; Renee Dahlke and her husband Craig, of Rapid City; Byron Popescu and his
wife Darcy, Carl Popescu and his wife Denise, Glen Popescu, all of Hot Springs, South Dakota; and Kelly Popescu, of Worland,
Wyoming; as well as by several great- nephews and -nieces, a great-great nephew and a great-great niece. Besides her parents, she
was preceded in death by brothers, Dennis and David, as children; Delmar, in 1986, his wife, Ione, in 2002, and a nephew, Bill, in 1981.
Fulkerson Funeral Home of Plentywood has charge of arrangements.
| . . . . in Memory of . . . . |
Remembering Mavis
| 1924 - 2009 |
I'll always remember stopping by and visiting Mavis when I would come back to Plentywood.
R. C. Bell
La Belle, Fl.
bell_r1@firn.ed
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R. C. Bell
La Belle, Fl.
bell_r1@firn.ed
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