Stanley I. Schell, 89, of Manhattan died Friday, July 22, 2011, at Meadowlark Hills Bramlage House.
He was born July 19, 1922, in Iola, to Leon Ingram and Pauline Ruth (Jacobs) Schell. He had been a Manhattan resident since 1968.
Stan graduated from Iola High School in 1940, Midland Radio and TV School in Kansas City in 1941 and later from Iola Junior College in business in 1951.
He worked for KHMO in Hannibal, Mo. as a radio engineer prior to joining the U.S. Navy in 1942. He served four years and was honorable discharged in 1946 as an aviation radio technician, first class. Following his Navy service he worked for his father at Schell’s Appliance store in Iola for seven years and in 1952 he joined Townley Metal Hardware as a sales representative and was sent to Beloit. The family lived in Beloit for 16 years prior to moving to Manhattan. He retired from Townley in 1985.
Stan was an avid collector and enjoyed gardening and playing bridge. He was a Kansas State University athletics fan and was a season ticket holder for many years. His memberships included First United Methodist Church in Manhattan and a life membership of the American Legion. He was active in the Parent Teachers Organization when his children where in school. He and his wife enjoyed wintering in Texas for 16 years.
On Sept. 12, 1942, he married Ivalee McFadden in Kansas City.
She survives of the home, as do two children, Kent Alan and his wife, Rovilla, Tulsa, Okla., and Patricia Ann Schell, Olathe; three grandchildren, Stanley Lloyd Schell, Erich Gregory Schmitz and Eric McKenzie Schmitz; and four great-granddaughters.
Stan was preceded in death by two brothers, Joe and Max.
Cremation is planned with memorial services to be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Kay Scarbrough officiating. Inurnment, with military honors, will follow in the Kansas Veterans’ Cemetery at Fort Riley.
Memorials to First United Methodist Church or Meadowlark Hills Foundation — Bramlage House may be sent in care of Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen Funeral Home, 1616 Poyntz Ave., Manhattan, KS 66502. Online condolences for the family may be left at www.ymlfuneralhome.com.
Stanley Schell
