BORN February 22, 1915 Rural Westside, Iowa
DIED October 19, 2001 Carroll, Iowa
FUNERAL SERVICE 2:00 P.M., Monday, October 22, 2001 St. Paul Lutheran Church Carroll, Iowa
OFFICIATING Pastor Charles W. Haake
ORGANIST Mrs. Gail Haake
CASKET BEARERS "Grandchildren" Tracy Phelps, Erin Phillips, Matthew Buescher, Timothy Buescher, Kent Phelps, Allen Hunter
HONORARY CASKET BEARERS: Ron Bierl, Larry Bayliss, Dale Bier, Richard Daniels, Tex Stock, Randy Huegerich, Stephen Lewis, Louis Hinners
INTERMENT Westside Cemetery Westside, Iowa

There will be a luncheon served at the Church immediately following the Funeral service. All are invited. Arrangements by Dahn & Woodhouse Funeral Home

Mr. Elmer Johannes Stoffers, age 86, of Carroll, Iowa, died at the St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll on October 19, 2001. A son of Fred and Sophie (Bauer) Stoffers, he was born on February 22, 1915, at Rural Westside, Iowa. He was baptized in October of 1915 at the United Church of Christ in Westside as an infant and was confirmed in the Lutheran faith on April 4, 1947, at Zion Lutheran Church by Pastor Theodore Tews. He attended rural Carroll County Schools. He and Louise Ossenkop were married on March 14, 1940, at the Lutheran Parsonage in Manning, Iowa, by Pastor John M. Ansorge. Elmer was a life-long farmer having farmed north of the Westside area most of his life. The Stoffers were long-time members of the Zion Lutheran Church in Arcadia where Elmer had served as elder and had served on the Church Board. He was also a member of the Verein Schuetzen in Hayes Township at Westside, Iowa, and the Westside School board during the re-organization to the Ar-We-Va Community Schools. He had also worked as a volunteer for New Hope Village for several years. He retired from farming in 1981 and the Stoffers moved to Carroll. They then became members of the St. Paul Lutheran Church in Carroll.

Survivors include his wife Louise Stoffers of Carroll, Iowa; a son Roger Stoffers and his wife Carlene of Fremont. California; two daughters: Annette Phillips and her husband James of Roseville, California, and Anita Buescher and her husband John of Folsom, California; five grandchildren: Tracy Phelps, Stephen Lewis, Erin Phillips, Matthew Buescher, and Timothy Buescher. Also surviving are a sister Ruby Hunter of Westside, Iowa and a brother Henry Stoffers and his wife Blondina of Carroll, Iowa.

Elmer was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters: Henrietta Hague and Regilda Stribe and a brother Harry Stoffers.