Lila Rose Schilling

Lila Rose Schilling entered eternal life on October 4, 2024 at the age of 94. She was born in Windsor on November 9, 1929, to Ludwig and Anna Eichorn. Her parents were both German immigrants from Russia (the legendary Volga Germans) who settled in Windsor in the 1920s to farm sugar beets. After graduating from Fort Collins High School in 1947, she married a newly discharged Navy veteran named Vic Schilling, and they enjoyed a wonderful 61-year marriage together that ended only with his death in 2008.
They joined American Lutheran (Trinity Lutheran) church in Ft Collins 75 years ago. She was a Sunday school teacher and a choir member there. She continued her Christian service by mentoring young women and leading BSF groups.

She lived up to the motto that you can take the girl from the farm but never the farm from the girl, cultivating a huge garden at her longtime home on North Meldrum Street in Fort Collins. She loved to cook recipes from the Old Country and her masterpiece was five handwritten cookbooks of her family's best recipes from three generations, which she gave to her children. By far her family was her greatest treasure and she leaves behind a sister, Shirly Jones, and five children: Marcia (Ken Wood), Tim (Bonnie Riddle), Susie (Garth Merrick), Sara (Stan Everitt), and Polly (John Hays). She also had twelve grandchildren, 22 great grandchildren and numerous step grandchildren and step great grandchildren. For all of them she led by example and established a home full of love, hope, charity, joy, compassion and faith. We remember her by the words of a prominent Bible verse on display in her home until the day she died: "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." May God bless her and welcome her with open arms.

A visitation will be held 4-6pm, Thursday, October 10, 2024 at Bohlender Funeral Chapel. The memorial service will be held 1pm, Saturday, October 12, 2024 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 E. Stuart, Ft. Collins. Private interment will be held at Grandview Cemetery.