Angeline "Angie" Williamson Obituary (1943

Angeline "Angie" Faith Williamson,of Ridgeland, WI, age 81, went to be with the Lord February 6, 2025. She was born in Minneapolis, MN, on May 28,1943, to Stanley and Mae Williamson - the 4th of 8 children. Angie spent her childhood in Fridley, MN. Her parents were passionate Pentecostal Christians. Her father had a mission/soup kitchen in downtown Minneapolis where he spent time feeding and ministering to the residents of Skid Row. Her parents dressed their girls in matching modest dresses and took the kids downtown frequently to sing hymns in beautiful harmonies on the streets of downtown Minneapolis - as a part of saving souls for Jesus. Angie's faith, and singing hymns - especially with her sisters - remained important to her throughout her life. When the State of MN decided to build the 694 freeway on the north side of the cities, they routed it right through the land the Williamson family owned. Angie was high school age then. While Dad tried to figure out where they would move, Mom decided to take the kids to join a Pentecostal Minister, near Knapp, WI - who owned 5 farms and preached hellfire and damnation in a barn/church on the Central Farm. He needed hired hands. Angie and her sisters went to work for him and there Angie met a strapping good-looking farm boy named Joseph Stoeklin. They fell in love and married in the little white church in Wilson,WI on May 26,1962. Joe became a tenant farmer on his own dairy farms, near Knapp & Menomonie, where they birthed Paul, JoAnn and Jeffrey. After Jeffrey was lost in a farm accident, they needed a change. They moved and went into turkey farming for Jerome Foods near Ridgeland, WI, where they spent the next 27 years and added daughters Loretta and Melissa to their family. Eventually they divorced. Angie worked in the Jerome foods plant for a few years and later moved to Boyceville to work as a personal caregiver. Angie was quick to smile, a hard worker, quiet but friendly, yet she let her opinions be known! She loved to quilt and gifted many lovely works of quilt-art over the years. She also loved being outside, working in the garden. At the time of her passing, she was again living on a farm near Ridgeland, being cared for by her son Paul and his wife Wanda who lived right next door. May she rest in peace. Angie is survived by children: Paul (Wanda Eastman), JoAnn Errickson, Loretta (Rick) Goehmann, and Malissa (Randy) Johnson, their children and grandchildren. Angie is also survived by her sisters Aseneth Palmer, Rosa (Rosy) Williamson, Rebecca Reinhold, and Naomi Williamson (Roger). Angie was preceded in death by her parents, her son Jeffrey as a child, her husband Joseph Stoeklen and her granddaughter Willow Stoeklen. She was also preceded in death by her sister Lois Richardson, brothers David Williamson and Ezra Daniel (“Ramlan”) Williamson, brother in law, Michael Palmer, Tomas and Louise Stoeklen, Kenneth Stoeklen, Lillian and James Roberts, Elsie Anderson, John Stoeklen, Faith (Leonard) Stoeklen, and Leo Stoeklen.