BARBARA LUCILLE STIMLER RISDALL
(née MILTON)

Born: January 17, 1926    Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota
Died: October 10, 2008    Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota
Buried: Fort Snelling National Cemetery    Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota


Parents:
 
 
Marriage:
 
 
 
 
Carlton Ward Milton
Gladys Eloise Morrison
 
Armin Vincent Stimler
August 19, 1946
Wayzata, Hennepin, Minnesota
 
 
Barbara Stimler (née Milton).
Children: Lynda Marie May 19, 1948  
  Cheryl Lynn June 12, 1951  
  Jeffrey Lee Nov. 1, 1953  
  Scott Jon Oct. 9, 1961  
       
Widowed: June 15, 1965
   
Marriage: Jerome Delmar "Jerry" Risdall
  October 20, 1967
  Minnetonka, Minnesota
   

Children:

Michael Allan Dec. 29, 1969  
       
Widowed: February 16, 2001
   
Notes: At the time of the April 22, 1930 U.S. census, Barbara was 4 years old and living with her parents and two sisters at
  5328 Abbott Avenue South, Minneapolis Ward 13, Hennepin, Minnesota. Her father, Carlton Ward, was working as a bookkeeper. The family owned their own home valued at $7,500 and they had a radio. Her parents had been married 9 years.
 
At the time of the Apr. 12, 1940 U.S. Federal census, Barbara was 14 years old and living with her parents and three sisters in the family home at 5332 Zenith Ave. S. in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, valued at $4,500. The family had been living in the same place in April 1935. Both her father and mother had completed four years of high school; elder sister Dorothy was in her freshman year of high school, Barbara was attending 8th grade, younger sister Margaret was in the 5th grade, and youngest sister Eloise was in the 3rd grade. Their father was working as a bookkeeper for the grain exchange. He worked 44 hours a week for 52 weeks in 1939, earning $2,700.

Formerly employed at Renaissance West, Barbara loved her family. She lived in Buffalo and later in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. She enjoyed rock gardening, garage sales, cooking, crocheting, crafts and had a great sense of humor.
 
Barbara passed away peacefully of natural causes on Friday, October 10th, 2008 with her loving family by her side. She was 82 years old.

Ancestry: The Balder Line [through marriage]
  The Franz Kampa Line [through marriage]
  The Stimmler/Stimler Line [through marriage]
  The Webster-Hunt Line [through marriage]
   
Obituary of Barbara L. Risdall, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, Oct. 12, 2008
 
Gravestone of Barbara L. Risdall

Barbara Stimler (née Milton).
Barbara Stimler (née Milton)

Barbara, Lynda, and Armin Stimler.
Barbara, Lynda, and Armin Stimler
Summer 1948

Audrey Stimler (née Pouliet), Helen Lundblad (née Stimler), Barbara Stimler (née Milton) and Marie Braun (née Stimler)
Left to right: Audrey Stimler (née Pouliet), Helen Lundblad (née Stimler),
Barbara Stimler (née Milton) and Marie Braun (née Stimler)

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