Her parents were Albert W. "Bert" and Elizabeth Neal Huddleston Stiles.

The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 3 October 2010, Sunday

Hostetter, May Stiles, 88, May 18, 1922 – September 29, 2010

May Brunner Stiles Johnson Hostetter, 88, or Roseville, Minnesota, passed away peacefully September 29, 2010. She was born July 18, 1922, in Denver. After graduating from Colorado State University with a major in home economics and dietetics, May received a Master of Science in foods and nutrition at Michigan State University and taught at both institutions. In addition, she taught at junior colleges and high schools, as well as working as a clinical dietician at hospitals in Colorado, Michigan and Wisconsin.

May was an avid skier; tennis champion; mountain climber; traveler, accomplished musician; volunteer and inspiring mother, grandmother and friend. She taught all of her children how to make and appreciate great pie crust, and wowed her grandchildren with tales of rappelling down the face of her college dormitory after curfew.

She was a longtime member of Bethel Congregational Church in Beaverton.

In 1953 May married Paul H. Johnson Jr. and lived in Michigan and Wisconsin. Paul died in 1971. She married Robert D. Hostetter in 1978 and lived in Beaverton until Robert's death in 2007. May moved to Minnesota in 2008.

Survivors include her two daughters and their spouses; and one son and spouse; three stepchildren and their spouses; six grandchildren and one sister. Her brother, Bert Stiles, writer and pilot, died in World War II.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, October 5, 2010, in St. Bridget Catholic Church, River Falls, Wisconsin.

Special thanks to Presbyterian Homes Eagle Crest Commons and Arbor staff, and HealthPartners Hospice staff. Memorials suggested to Alzheimer's Association, Bethel Congregational United Church of Christ of Beaverton, Presbyterian Homes-Eagle Crest, or donor's choice.