Jerome Stoddard

JEROME D. STODDARD

Watkins

Jerome D. Stoddard, 93, died Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016, at Colonial Manor of Amana. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, at Phillips Funeral Home in Blairstown with Pastor Crystal Oberheu officiating. Interment will be held at Mound Cemetery, rural Watkins. Friends may call from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

Jerome was born Oct. 6, 1923, in Brookfield, Mo., the son of Edward and Stella (Shepherd) Stoddard. He graduated from New Cambria High School in New Cambria, Mo. On June 1, 1942, he was united in marriage to Helen Sebol in Linneus, Mo. The couple lived in Missouri until moving to Iowa, where they lived in Luzerne and Blairstown for a number of years before settling in Watkins in 1956. Jerome owned and operated Stoddard Garage in Watkins for over 40 years.

He was a member of the Norway Methodist Church. Jerome enjoyed tinkering with lawn mowers and engines, hunting and fishing, watching westerns and the Atlanta Braves on television.

Jerome is survived by his wife, Helen of Watkins; his children, Loretta (Larry) Lemons of Fruitland, Idaho, Carol (Darrell) Schulte of Norway, Steve Stoddard of Watkins and James (Cindy) Stoddard of Watkins; 13 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; and 14 great-great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents; two grandsons, Dustin Stoddard and Matt Lemons; his great-granddaughter, Kylie Zittergruen; his great-great-grandson, Levi George; his brothers, Gilbert, Russell, Leslie, Marion, Clifford and Robert; and his sisters, Elizabeth, Margaret, Geraldine and Velma.