ELSIE PAULINE STANGE
ELSIE PAULINE STANGE OF IRONDALE, MISSOURI, WAS BORN JULY 26, 1917, A DAUGHTER OF THE LATE FRED AND GRACE (PIGG) HELMS. ELSIE DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT PARKLAND HEALTH CENTER ON MARCH 10, 1999, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF EIGHTY-ONE YEARS SEVEN MONTHS AND FIFTEEN DAYS.
ELSIE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO ROBERT LEE STANGE ON APRIL 14, 1956, IN MISSISSIPPI.
ELSIE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, ROBERT STANGE OF IRONDALE, ONE SON-IN-LAW, FRANK COLEMAN OF FRANKCLAY, TWO GRANDSONS, RICK COLEMAN AND WIFE SAMMIE OF FRANKCLAY, RUSSELL COLEMAN AND WIFE MARY OF IRONDALE, FOUR GREAT GRANCHILDREN, JASON COLEMAN OF IRONDALE, JENNIFER CULKIN AND HUSBAND DAVID OF IRONDALE, DEANN KINNARD OF DESLOGE, KIMBERLY KINNARD OF FRANKCLAY, TWO GREAT GREAT GRANDSONS, DEVIN CULKIN OF IRONDALE AND KOBE KINNARD OF DESLOGE, ONE BROTHER, ERNEST HARRIS AND WIFE DOROTHY OF FARMINGTON, ROY HARRIS OF COOL, CALIFORNIA, ONE SISTER, NELLIE RODGERS OF BONNE TERRE AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS SHE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE DAUGHTER, SHIRLEY COLEMAN, ONE SISTER, EMMA JOHNSON AND TWO BROTHERS, PAUL AND EDDIE HELMS.
ELSIE WAS A LONGTIME BUSINESS OWNER AND OPERATOR OF THE CREAM TOP DAIRY QUEEN IN IRONDALE, MISSOURI, FOR TWENTY-ONE YEARS. SHE ENJOYED SPENDING HER SPARE TIME CANNING, SEWING AND RELAXING WITH THE TELEVISION. ELSIE WAS AN AVID CARDINAL FAN ALWAYS TAKING TIME TO SUPPORT THEM.
ELSIE HAD A GREAT LOVE IN HER HEART FOR FAMILY, FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES. HER DAILY SMILE, KIND WORD OR HER OPEN EAR LIFTED THE SPIRITS OF ANYONE WHO SAW HER.
VISITATION WAS HELD THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1999, FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT THE GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME IN IRONDALE.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1999, AT 2:00 P.M. AT THE GUM & SON CHAPEL WITH BROTHER DWIGHT BRADLEY OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN HOPEWELL CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME IN IRONDALE.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, DENNIS WOODS, CHARLES HELMS, FRED HELMS, DENNIS WELLS, DAVID CULKIN AND WARREN GIBSON.