Edythe Isabelle “Busy” Pooler Stephens

Edythe Isabelle “Busy” Pooler Stephens was granted peace from her battle with cancer Thursday, March 4, 2021.

Vivacious and warm, Busy made friends from Chippewa County, to California and Texas.

She was a farmer’s daughter, farmer’s wife and found time to create remarkable wedding cakes, oil paintings and ceramic art.

A lifelong reader, she valued books and libraries. With her passing, many card games, BINGO calls and coffee klatches within her previous orbit, are lacking a center. She will be missed.

Busy was born June 21, 1929, the middle daughter of three, to Glenn and Theresa (La Rose) Pooler, of Birch Creek. She attended La Rose School and Holcombe High School. She graduated from high school in 1947, and shortly after, married Keith Stephens.

Together, they farmed in locations throughout Chippewa County, and were renowned for their dairy herd.

She is survived by sisters – Norma (Glen) Severson, Holcombe, and Sylvia (Walter) Broom, Oconomowoc; children – Michael (Sharon), Holcombe, Verne (Diane), Fremont, Theresa (Scott) Pozarski, Cadott, Travis (Joan), Calistoga, Calif., and Keith (Tammy), Cornell; the children are joined in mourning by brother-in-all-but-name – Gene (Clarice) Hakes, Cadott; 13 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her beloved husband; sons – baby Keith W. and William “Wild Bill,” Texas; and grandson – Forest Michael.

At her request, there will be no public service at this time, but asks that friends remember her in their prayers and fond recollections. A memorial service is planned for the anniversary of her birth, in June of 2021.