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Submitted: 3/16/20 • Approved: 3/17/20 • Last Updated: 3/20/20 • R1303864-G1303863-S3
Sept 23, 1934 - Nov 6, 2015
Raymonette Steward Aeberli, 81 of Mountain View passed away November 6, 2015 at Little Rock, Arkansas. She was born September 23, 1934 at Armorel, Arkansas to Charles Francher and Opal Larkin Steward. She is survived by her loving husband, Edwin George Aeberli to whom she was married for more than fifty years and her children, Carole Ragsdale Curtis, Lisa Ragsdale Rousseau, Kathleen Ragsdale, and Elizabeth Aeberli Sutton. She is also survived by step-daughters, Patricia Aeberli Cordell and Sheila Aeberli Young, and fifteen grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Opal Steward and a son, David Steward Ragsdale.
Rae was...An antique hunter with champagne tastes and a Maxwell House coffee budget...cream, no sugar please. A gifted seamstress who could craft red carpet-worthy Barbie doll clothes from velvet scraps and imagination. A passionate gardener who braked for butterflies, rescued irises by the roadside, and taught her children how to watch everyday beauty unfolding in a sunset, a flower's bloom, a starlit night, or a Luna moth emerging from its cocoon.
Rae was...A woman blessed to have found both her true love at first sight and her soul mate for a lifetime in the man she called husband for more than fifty years. An avid genealogist and historian who loved traveling the country and the internet engaged in the detective work of uncovering family roots...and a painter, and birder, and hummingbird herder. Her lifelong generosity of spirit in tending to those she saw in need was matched by her ability to turn strangers into friends wherever she traveled.
Rae was...An unquenchable reader who had a love of books, good conversation, and new knowledge that infused the lives of her husband, children, and friends...and who believed a book wasn't properly broken-in until it sported at least one coffee stain.
And Rae was...A women who knew how to transform a missed street turn into an adventure, a piece of plain buttered bread into a fairy sandwich with a light dusting of sugar to make it sparkle, and a life into a lifetime of rich experiences.
Visitation will be held from 1 3 P.M. Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at the First United Methodist Church of Mountain View. Funeral service will follow at 3 P.M. Pastor Paul Coy will officiate. Interment will be at Fredonia Cemetery. Pallbearers are Lanny Sutton, Justin Ragsdale, Robert Ragsdale, Nathan Sutton, Evan Sutton, and Dar Stow. Roller Crouch Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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