LINDA SCHILLING

LOCKWOOD- Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Immanuel Lutheran Church for Linda Lee Schilling, 83, who died Monday, Jan. 3, 2021, at Good Shepherd Care and Rehab in Lockwood. Burial will be in the Lockwood Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, at the Lockwood Funeral Chapel.

Memorials may be given to the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League, in care of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Box H, Lockwood, MO 65682 or to the Hulston Cancer Center.

Survivors include a daughter, Valerie Hudspeth, Lockwood; sons, David, Brighton, Colo. and Darren and Idyllwild, Calif.; four grandchildren; one great-grandson; sisters, Carol Wilson, Anniston, Ala. and Jeanne Cascone, Kansas City, Mo. and a brother, John D. Wilson and wife Jana, Aurora.

She was preceded in death by death by a brother-in-law, Larry Cascone.

Mrs. Schilling was born May 15, 1938, on the Fruin family homestead, 3 ½ miles north of Greenfield, to John Kenneth and Mary Faye (Dodd) Wilson. She began first grade at one-room Liberty School, northeast of Lockwood and following a time of moving back and forth from Missouri to California, she was a 1956 graduate of Lockwood High School.

She married Dwaine Schilling in December of 1956. They divorced in the 1990’s.

At age nine she was baptized at Sons Creek. In 1957 she became a communicant member of Zion Lutheran Church, Meinert. Then, from 1969 until her passing, she was an active member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Lockwood.

She worked at several places including Rubenstein’s in Greenfield, Lockwood R-l School cafeterias, D & S Variety, OTASCO and S&H Farm Supply. She began a 24 year career with Farmer’s State Bank in 1982, retiring in 2006. She also ran 3rd Street Specialties, a gift store, from her home.

She was active in the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League, Lockwood P&BW and served as a Girl Scout leader and 4-H leader. During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, she coordinated the shipping of handmade quilts from Dade County quilters to wounded troops at the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.