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Lucille Croll Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers on Mar. 25, 2009.

Prairie Village, Kan.: Lucille Mae (Bantz) Croll passed away on March 17, 2009, at Brighton Gardens in Prairie Village, Kan., where she had resided for nearly five years. Lucille was born on July 3, 1914, to C. Jay and Nellie (Bowers) Bantz in Independence, Iowa. She grew up in Ipswich, S.D., and graduated from Ipswich High School in 1932.

On July 15, 1940, Lucille was married to Dwight Lane Croll in Aberdeen, S.D., and the loving relationship lasted for 64 years until Dwight passed away on July 19, 2004. Together they lived in Huron and Canton, S.D.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; and since 1960 in Overland Park, Kan. In Overland Park they built their own home at 9615 Delmar where they resided from 1964-2004.

An elementary classroom teacher all her life, Lucille taught in Sturgis, S.D.; Hand County, S.D.; Canton, S.D. (principal); Huron, S.D.; Pittsburgh, Pa., and lastly Prairie Village, Kan., where she taught in the Shawnee Mission Public Schools at Corinth School from 1961 to 1979. Lucille graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Lucille's interests included sewing, golfing, fishing, cooking, painting and music. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star for 54 years.

She is survived by her sister, Marna (Earle, deceased) Hagen, Ipswich, S.D.; sister-in-law, Edith (Les, deceased) Croll, Miller, S.D.; nieces, Pamela (Don, deceased) Bain, Flint, Mich.; Kathryn (Gene) Stobbs, Brooklyn Park, Minn.; and Carola (William) Winkle, Boise, Idaho; nephew Larry (Janne') Croll, Chandler, Ariz.; special friends, Rick and Heidi Allen, Leawood, Kan.; and great-nieces and nephews, Roger and Scott Bain, Michelle Dillard, Steve (Julie) and Andy Stobbs, Tricia (Marty) Olson, Matthew and Michael Croll, Ty Stevens, Brianne Hill, Brenda Winkle Wilber, and Rachelle (Michael) Winkle Wagner. Lucille was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Dwight; her parents; sisters-in-law, Geneva Croll and Alys (Roger) Stensland; brothers-in-law, Leslie Croll and Leland (Irene) Croll and Earle Hagen.

D.W. Newcomer's Sons did the arrangements and burial was on March 20, 2009, in Johnson County Memorial Gardens, Overland Park, Kan.

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