Shenandoah Ditterline

Shenandoah M. Ditterline, age 46 of Alma City, died Sunday, October 7, 2012 at Mayo Clinic Health System-Mankato.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday, October 11th at 6:00 P.M. at Arnoldt-McRaith Funeral Home & Crematory in Janesville, with Rev. Dr. Larry Griffin officiate.

Visitation will be held on Thursday from 4:30 P.M. until the hour of service, at the funeral home.

Shenandoah Mills was born on January 27, 1966 to Evelyn Josephine Wright in Carmel, California. For a short time he worked in the oil fields in Texas before moving to Minnesota. On July 4, 1992 he met the love of his life Phyllis E. Roeker in Mankato Minnesota. Over the years Shenandoah worked part-time for Les Rosenau Siding in Waseca. He was always there to lend a helping hand to his friends. Shenandoah enjoyed traveling to South Dakota with Phyllis, and fishing.

He is survived by his special friend, Phyllis Roeker of Alma City; by his three brothers, Willis Ditterline and Oscar Fay, both of Wyoming and George Fay, of Texas; by his sister, Becky Ditterline, of Texas; by many other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his mother; by his sister, Crystal Amber Wright; and by his brother, Timothy Ditterline.