- Date Of Birth: August 5, 1920
- Date Of Death: August 23, 2010
- State: Montana
Lois Adeline Van Setten, age 90, passed away Monday, August 23, 2009 at Immanuel Lutheran Home in Kalispell, Montana. She was born on August 5, 1920 to Christian and Clara (Strand) Swenson. She grew up in the Farmington area and graduated from Choteau High School in 1938. She then attended Normal School in Dillon receiving a 2 year elementary teaching degree. She taught in the rural Fort Benton area and in Bynum.
Lois and John Van Setten were married in 1946, they had a dairy farm on the Greenfield Bench and did this until 1978 when they retired and moved into the town of Fairfield. In the year 2000 she moved to Kalispell to the Buffalo Hill Terrace where she lived the rest of her life.
Lois enjoyed gardening, crafts, knitting, quilting, dancing and camping. She and John enjoyed taking their grandchildren on camping trips. They all still have afghans and quilts complements of grandma Lois. She also enjoyed working with others on quilts for Lutheran World Relief.
Lois was preceded in death by her husband, John in 2000, her parents, a sister, Dorothy Van Setten, and two brothers, Lawrence and Morris Swenson. She is survived by to daughters Darlene Caldwell and husband Cliff of Columbia Falls, MT and Carol Dahley and husband Randy of Lolo, MT; grandchildren, Stacy Caldwell, Michael Caldwell, Kelly Palmer, Heather Amdahl and Trevor Dahley; great grandchildren, Azlyn Caldwell, Madeline Palmer, Van Palmer, Sabrina Fenton and Sterling Amdahl.
