Smile

What makes Danielle Stillson smile? My boys,” said the 38-year-old Noblesville resident, who was found in May 2021 with her husband, Aaron, and their two sons, Calum, then 12, and Lewis, then 7, in the activated North Alley off of Logan Street on the Hamilton County Courthouse Square in downtown Noblesville. “I don’t think I could love being a boy mom more, from their sweet smiles to their stinky farts,” she said. They live within walking distance of the Square. Today’s feature is a look back at one of The Times’ previous Faces of Hamilton County. Calum (whose name is Scottish for “dove”) was then a sixth-grader at Noblesville East Middle School, and Lewis a first-grader at North Elementary. Stillson is a hair stylist and works out of her house. “I’ve got a little salon right off the back. One chair,” she said. Stillson was born in Warsaw, moved down here to Indy in 1989, graduated from Lawrence Central High School, and her husband graduated from Mount Vernon High School in 2003. They lived in Broad Ripple, then Fishers, now Noblesville. The family has three cats and two dogs. In 2021, when asked what she wanted for Mother’s Day, she replied: “Peace and quiet, and no dogs, no more dogs.”