This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fanson, Stoermer, Kupka, Krause, Polinard, Cowels, Steffen, Smithey, Scheibal, Ottis, Fulk, Atkins Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/plB.2ACI/3738 Message Board Post: Ida Stoermer Fanson Feb. 8, 1912 - May 1, 2006 Ida Stoermer Fanson, 94, of Seguin, departed this life on May 1, 2006. A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 6, 2006 in San Geronimo Cemetery, in Seguin. The Rev. Jeremy Roy will officiate. Visitation will be at Goetz Funeral Home from noon until 9 p.m. Friday, May 5, 2006 with the family receiving friends from 5 until 7 p.m. Mrs. Fanson was born February 8, 1912 in Yoakum to Alexander Stoermer, Jr. and Frances Marie Kupka Stoermer. On September 26, 1935 she married George Lyman Fanson in Victoria. Mrs. Fanson and her husband operated Fanson’s Texaco Service Station for 20 years. She started Brownie and Girl Scout Troops in the Seguin area and served on the local Girl Scout Board, as well as the Girl Scout area advisory board. She also served as director of Girl Scout day camps. She was a member of Emanuel’s Lutheran Church for 50 years where she was a member of Ladies Aid and RSVP Quilters. Survivors include: her daughter, Annette Krause and husband John of Seguin; grandchildren, Eric and Elizabeth Polinard Krause of Johnson City, John and Sara Cowels Krause of Austin, Peter and Melanie Steffen Krause of Marion and Edie and Matthew Smithey of Seguin; great-grandchildren, Amber, Derek and Candace Krause, J. R. Krause, Michael, Jeremy and Gabriel Polinard-Krause and Hailey and Tyler Smithey; sister, Doris Scheibal of Livingston and sister-in-law, Jenne Fae Stoermer of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mrs. Fanson was preceded in death by her husband George Lyman Fanson; an infant son, Gerald Lyman Fanson; parents, Alex and Frances Stoermer; brothers, James and Julius Stoermer; sisters, Minnie Ottis, Georgie Fulk, Irene Atkins and their spouses, one brother-in-law, and all of her Fanson in-laws. The family suggests that memorial contributions be made to one of the following charities: Hospice of Guadalupe Regional Hospital, the Seguin-Guadalupe County Public Library or the building fund of Emanuel’s Lutheran Church. Memorial tributes can be made online at www.mem.com. Arrangements are under the direction of Goetz Funeral Home, 713 N. Austin St. Seguin, TX 78155 (830) 379-2313 Bay City Tribune Published May 3, 2006 Matagorda County, Texas