KEYSTONE:  Lillian Scheel Pohlmann, 86, died Thursday, November 12, 2009 at the Keystone Nursing Care Center in Keystone following an extended illness.

     Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 AM, Monday, November 16, 2009 at St. John Lutheran Church in Keystone with Rev. Dr. James Eggert officiating.  Private Committal Services will be held at the Keystone Cemetery.  Friends may call at Phillips Funeral Home in Keystone from 3 to 7 PM on Sunday.  A memorial fund has been established.

     Lillian was born December 17, 1922 at Keystone to Edward and Nan (Jordt) Deppe and graduated from the Keystone High School in 1940.  On September 18, 1940 she married Howard Scheel at St. John Lutheran Church in Keystone.  The couple lived in Benton County most of their married life and owned an operated The Round Table in Garrison.  He preceded her in death on January 2, 1978.  She married Leonard Pohlmann on November 1, 1986 at the Little Brown Church in Nashua and Leonard also preceded her in death. 

     Lillian was a member of St. John Lutheran Church, the Keystone Turnerettes.  She had served as a volunteer at the Keystone Nursing Care Center and she loved flowers and Polka music.

     She is survived by her children, Carol (Gary) Dundee of Center Point, Jan (Daryl) Rachuy of Jesup, Peg (Rudy) Hoffa of Chelsea, Cindy (Craig) Pattee, Terri (Kenny) Andorf, and Randy (Teresa) Scheel, all of Garrison; twenty grandchildren; twenty-six great-grandchildren; her sisters, Jeanne Stein of Keystone and Arlene Fintel of Cedar Rapids; and her brothers, Jim Deppe of Keystone and Robert (Carol) Deppe of Ames.

     In addition to her parents and husbands, she was preceded in death by her grandsons, Danial Schellhase and Mark Dundee; and her brother, Richard Deppe.