ILA KOSSEL, Obituary

CHESTER Ila Blanche Kossel, 82, died Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at a Conrad nursing home.

Memorial services were today at 11 a.m. at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Chester with the Rev. Peter Erickson officiating. A luncheon was to follow at the church. It was Ila's wish to be cremated. Her ashes will be buried with her husband, John, at the C.E. Conrad Memorial Cemetery in Kalispell at a later date.

Ila was born on the family homestead near Reedpoint to Ira and Myrtle (Tucker) Myers on Feb. 23, 1920. She received her early schooling at Reedpoint. The Myers family moved to Kalispell and she fini...