Loyola R. Stout

Loyola Stout of Uniontown died peacefully at the age of 92, Saturday afternoon, Nov. 1, 2014, at Bishop Place in Pullman.

Loy was born in April 1922 to Barthol and Helen Herboth Schumacher in a little country house located at the top of the Lewiston Hill. She was the second child of a family of four boys and three girls. At the time Loy started grade school, there was no bus transportation, so Loy, her older brother Floyd and younger sister Corrine lived with their grandparents, Matt and Rose Schumacher, in Uniontown during the week, and returned home on the weekends. She graduated from eighth grade with three students in her class. The following year, 1936, the Schumacher family moved to the Thorn Creek area. Loy attended Colton High School. While in high school, Loy broke tradition and enrolled in a wood shop class called manual training. She made her own bedroom set, which is still in use today. After graduation in 1940, she worked at the high school correcting papers, tutoring algebra, and taking a postgraduate course in manual training.

On Nov. 27, 1941, she married Eugene Stout of Uniontown, whom she had known since childhood. The Stout and Schumacher farms were near each other at the top of the Lewiston Hill. Loy and Eugene were members of St. Galls and St. Boniface Catholic parishes in Colton and Uniontown. After their wedding, they had a short honeymoon trip to Portland, Ore. They moved into a large brick house located south of Uniontown and owned by Eugene's parents. There, they spent the next 40 years farming, ranching, and raising their 12 children. In 1981, they built and moved into a new house on the Uniontown-Moscow highway. They lived in this home until Gene's medical condition required them to move to Lewiston in 2007. After Gene's death, Loy moved to Bishop Place in Pullman.

Loyola was well-known in the community for her baking, especially her doughnuts. Loy's doughnuts were so popular and sought after at school that many lunchtime trades occurred, with the doughnuts being as good as cash. She and her doughnuts were even featured in the newspaper at one time. Loy enjoyed gardening and raising flowers. She canned about 1,000 quarts of fruits and vegetables per year. She also was an accomplished seamstress, as she made many of her children's clothes, and later made quilts for her 12 children and grandchildren.

Loyola and Eugene enjoyed traveling and took trips to Canada, Europe, Tennessee, Hawaii and several other states to visit their children and relatives. They frequently took the family on camping trips to the Bovill-Deary cattle feeding grounds in the Idaho mountains. Loy and Gene enjoyed dancing and playing bridge. For many years, they were members of the Jolly Good Fellows, a Lewiston dancing group, and played bridge with friends from Uniontown, Colton and Pullman.

Loyola is survived by 11 children, Richard B. Stout (Jan), Jacqueline Heitstuman (Carl), David Stout, Geraldine Picha (Gary), Cheryl Dion (Chuck), Douglas Stout (Gayle), Mary Jo Stout, Daniel Stout (Heather), Gregory Stout, Rebecca Byers (Ken), and Eugenia Helbig (Bill); 32 grandchildren; 38 great-grandchlildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Eugene; daughter Barbara Higgins; and brother Floyd Schumacher.

A rosary vigil service will be held at 7 p.m. Friday at Vassar-Rawls Funeral Home in Lewiston.

The funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Boniface Church in Uniontown, followed by a graveside service and luncheon.