Violet Marie Kirchhoff, 93, of rural Concordia, MO, died Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at Good Shepherd Care Community in Concordia.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, March 24, 2025, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Concordia, with Pastors Michael Pottschmidt and Andrew Lehenbauer officiating. Visitation will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. Monday prior to the service. Burial will be in St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church or St. Paul’s Grade School. Friends may sign the online register book at www.campbell-lewis.com.
Born July 22, 1931, in Stover, MO, she was the daughter of the late Otto M. Meyer and Bertha Hagedorn Meyer. Violet grew up in Stover and Cole Camp and began her love of sewing and quilting as a very young girl. Prior to her marriage, she worked at Stover Quilting Factory. On October 24, 1954, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, she married Lambert Adolph Kirchhoff who preceded her in death on July 30, 2006. She moved to Concordia as a bride and worked beside Lambert milking cows, raising chickens for eggs and also helping in the fields as needed. Even being busy with duties as a farmer’s wife, she was a mother to two daughters. Her love of sewing and crafts brought her great joy, sewing dresses, piecing and quilting beautiful quilts and making throw rugs on her loom. Even in her devotion to God and her love for St. Paul’s Lutheran Church her contributions were many. She was very active with the Braille Workers and was also a wheelchair pusher assisting residents at the Good Shepherd Home for church services. Her true joy was St. Paul’s Quilters, she and these ladies finished many quilts with hand stitches and their profits going to Missions. She was also a member of the Hobby-Hand Quilters and Senior Center Quilters. Violet was a member of the Chinette Club. She enjoyed china painting and won many ribbons for her china painting and her beautiful quilts. She was also active with the Show-Me Comfort Quilters making more than 100 comfort quilts for cancer patients, at times delivering them herself. These groups gave her much joy.
Survivors include two daughters, Lois Edmiston of Kansas City, MO and Marilyn Meyer Brockmann (Robert) of Monroe, GA; seven grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; 10 great-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents and husband, Violet was preceded in death by a son-in-law, Richard Edmiston; and five siblings, Leonard Meyer, Vernon Meyer, Louise Meyer Ackerman and Opal Meyer, and a brother in infancy.