In Memory of

Phyllis

Lorraine

Stull

Obituary for Phyllis Lorraine Stull

On June 26th, 2021, Phyllis Lorraine Stull left the corporeal bounds of this Earth.

Services will be at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at Brooks Chapel in Canyon with Rev. Mildred S.Rugger, Chaplain, BSA Hospice of the Southwest, officiating. Burial will follow in Dreamland Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 7:00 P.M. on Tuesday, June 29, 2021 at Brooks Chapel.

Phyllis was born on the 1st Day of May 1928 in Mount Pleasant, Iowa to Francis (Frank) Haviland and Margaret Haviland.

She was married to Ted Wayne Stull, her best friend. They were blessed with a marriage of more than 68 years until Ted passed away on November 28th, 2018.

After graduating from Mt. Pleasant High School, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Phyllis attended Iowa Wesleyan College for a year until she left to become a homemaker and mother to her three children. During her 46 years in Mt. Pleasant, she was an active member of Saint Michael’s Episcopal Church.

While caring for her family, Phyllis went to work for the Henry County, Iowa Head Start Program and did so for several years. She dearly loved helping the youngest of children get a step up in this world. After moving to Canyon, Texas in 1974, she began working as a Deputy Clerk for Randall County, a position she held for almost ten years.

In addition to her husband, Ted, she was preceded in death by her parents, her two sisters Mary Louise Wickham of Winfield, Iowa and Estelline Taylor of Morrison, Colorado and her two brothers The Reverend Donald Haviland of Omaha, Nebraska and Charles Haviland of Ottumwa, Iowa.

Survivors include her sister Virginia Eland of Venice, Florida, her children Christopher Stull, Kathy Driskill and her husband, David and Kenny Stull and his wife, Kay; 7 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.

She loved helping care for her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Her hobbies included painting handmade knick-knacks, caring for her flower gardens and feeding the many back yard birds that frequented her home.

Depart, O Christian soul, out of this world;
In the Name of God the Father Almighty who created you;
In the Name of Jesus Christ who redeemed you;
In the Name of the Holy Spirit who sanctifies you.
May your rest be this day in peace,
and your dwelling place in the Paradise of God.