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Monday, June 19, 2017Bee Cee Pro-Hardware, in Watsontown. She also worked part-time as a caregiver for Home Instead in recent years.She is survived by her children, Edward (Jane) Reiner of Oak Park, Calif., Sue Cain of Myrtle Beach, S.C., Jeffrey (Janet) Reiner of Omaha, Neb.; four grandchildren and their spouses, Dr. Benjamin C. Reiner, Ph.D. (Dr. Teresa Donze-Reiner, Ph.D.), Philadelphia, Melissa S Bintz (Russell Bintz), Lehigh, Iowa, Jennifer M Fuchs (Edward Fuchs) Montpelier, Vt. and Nicole Cain, Myrtle Beach, S.C.Betty was also blessed with five great-grandchildren, Evan, Ayden, and Jackson Bintz (Melissa), Everdean Fuchs (Jennifer), and Alexandra Reiner (Benjamin).Betty is survived by five siblings, Vonnie Mincemoyer, Barb Embeck, Elaine Springer, Jane Hunselman and Wade King.She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Reiner; two brothers, Barry King and John ‘Butch’ King; and a granddaughter, Cari Whittington (Cain).The family will receive friends and loved ones from 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday at Brooks Funeral Home, 124 Main St., Watsontown. Interment will follow at the Paradise Cemetery, rural Milton, with the Rev. Thomas Glasoe, of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Potts Grove, officiating.
Monday, March 06, 2017March 1, 2017. He was 60. Services will be private.Charlie Marshall Funeral Home.Juan G. GaonaBEEVILLE – Juan G. Gaona died March 1, 2017. He was 68. Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. March 4 at Oak Park Memorial Funeral Chapel. Cremation will follow.Enrique V. GarzaEnrique V. Garza died Feb. 26, 2017. He was 70.A graveside service will be at 1 p.m. March 6 at Coastal Bend State Veterans Cemetery.Corpus Christi Funeral HomeAndrea GonzalezAndrea Gonzalez died Feb. 22, 2017. She was 90.Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. March 4 at Corpus Christi Funeral Home.Martina Gonzalez VelascoROBSTOWN — Martina Gonzalez Velasco died Feb. 28, 2017. She was 51.Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. March 4 at the New Life Baptist Church. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery.Ramon Funeral HomeFrances L. HortonODEM — Frances Louise Horton died March 2, 2017. She was 80.Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. March 4 at Sinton Cemetery. Burial will follow.Ritchea-Gonzales Funeral Home, Inc.Hoa LamHoa "Henry" Lam died March 3, 2017. He was 54. Services will be at 2 p.m. March 5 at Guardian Funeral Home.Trinidad Salinas SalazarBEEVILLE — Trinidad Salinas Salazar died March 1, 2017. She was 96.Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. March 5 at Oak Park Memorial Funeral Chapel. Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. March. 6 at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church. Burial will follow in Our Lady of Victory Cemetery No. 2.Julia R. SanchezTAFT – Julia R. Sanchez died March 1, 2017. She was 95. Rosary will be recited 7 p.m. March 5 at Resthaven Funeral Home Chapel, Sinton. Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. March 6 at Immaculate Conception Church. Burial will follow in Taft Memorial Park Cemetery.Kaye Tarrant Durham HoltKaye Tarrant Durham Holt died Feb. 25, 2017. She was 97.Services will be at 3 p.m. March 4 at the Church of the Good Shepherd.Seaside Funeral HomeRead or Share this story: http://callertim.es/2lGW4D6...
Monday, February 20, 2017Phyllis Riley, age 94, of Oak Park Heights, Minn., formerly longtime Afton, Minn. resident, passed away on Feb. 16, 2017, at the Gables at Boutwell's Landing.Phyllis was born on June 11, 1922, in Rochester, the daughter of Allen and Alice (Hall) Haggerty. She grew up in Rochester, attended St. John the Evangelist High School, and went on to obtain an Associates Degree from St. Mary's School of Nursing in Rochester and a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Metropolitan State University.On July 18, 1948, she was united in marriage to William Joseph Riley, and they were blessed with eight children. Phyllis worked for many years as a Registered Nurse at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, and in 1968 became the Assistant Director of Education at Mounds Park Hospital.Phyllis placed great importance on her faith. She served as a Eucharist Minister at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Croixdale Retirement Community. She was also an active member of her parish. She loved spending time with her family and f...
Monday, December 19, 2016Elizabeth Simer. She had lived in The Clare for about five years.She was born Dorothy Shriver in Carlisle, Penn. She moved with her family to Oak Park when she was about 10 and graduated from what is now Oak Park and River Forest High School. Late in her life, she was still able to sing the fight song, her daughter said.Ogilvie began work as a secretary in a Chicago ad agency. After purchasing a small farm business, her father moved the family to Volo. Ogilvie moved with the family, commuting to her job in Chicago.Simer said her parents met in 1948 through a friend of her father's, who was engaged to a friend of one of her mother's sisters. Ogilvie insisted her husband-to-be pass the bar examination before they married in 1950, Simer said.Richard Ogilvie practiced law in Chicago and served as an assistant U.S. attorney. From 1958 to 1961, he served as a special assistant to the United States Attorney General heading an office fighting organized crime in Chicago.After her husband was elected governor in 1969, Dorothy Ogilvie and her family found that the mansion, then over 100 years old, had not aged gracefully. The couple found the executive mansion in Springfield to be in serious, even dangerous, disrepair, with temporary braces in place to support the structure."It was anything but a showplace," said Kathy Wonderlic Kolbe, who was special assistant to Ogilvie at the time. "Mrs. Ogilvie worked with the preservation team. … She was very encouraging of that preservation and very proud of the result."The family moved into rented quarters to make way for the restoration work."She was willing to forego the trappings of the wife of the governor," said John McCarter, who was the budget director in the administration."That was a measure of her, a measure of ...
Monday, November 28, 2016Friday.Sign up to get each day's obituaries sent to your email inboxSign up here to receive a daily email alert of local and national obituariesThe family would like to thank the staff at Oak Park Assisted Living and Memory care for their tender, loving care. We will miss you, Keith!...
Monday, October 31, 2016She stood 5-feet-10 thanks to what her children said were widely acknowledged as “the best legs on the West Side.”Young Annamae grew up in the “the Island” — where Chicago, Cicero and Oak Park meet near Roosevelt Road and Austin Boulevard. All her life, she stayed close with friends she made at St. Frances of Rome grade school and Siena High School.On her 18th birthday, she received a congratulatory phone call from James Fitzpatrick, who’d been born within hours of her at the same hospital, St. Anthony’s on the West Side. Their moms had become friends during their three-week-long postpartum hospital stays in the era before managed care, when a long stay wasn’t uncommon after giving birth. He wanted to ask her out before enlisting in the Navy during World War II. She liked to say he fell “head over heels” for her.Before they got married in 1948, she studied journalism at Northwestern University on scholarship. Mrs. Fitzpatrick also wrote for Bakers’ Helper magazine until the kids arrived, said another daughter, Maryann Brown. Later, she worked as an administrative assistant at a real estate office.The Fitzpatricks bought a home in Lombard on the GI Bill, and her husband started work as an embalmer. In 1965, at 40, he suffered a heart attack. Pregnant with their eighth child, she jokingly pleaded with James Fitzpatrick: “Do not take the coward’s way out.” He recovered and lived another 33 years.His career flourished after he switched from embalming to selling burial vaults, said their son, Kevin. It probably helped that he used to ply clients with loaves of Mrs. Fitzpatrick’s homemade white, date-nut, cinnamon-raisin and Irish soda bread.Countless times, her kids say, she had them deliver bread, brownies and dinner to neighbors experiencing sorrow and sickness. She also made sure they had holy water in the house.“She ordered it from Lourdes by the case,” said another daughter, Kathryn Elmore. “If they had troubles, they got the soda bread and the holy water.”Her son Jim, a college professor who has a master’s degree and a doctorate, said of his mother, “I’ve never met anybody who could listen and understand so quickly the complexity of anybody’s problems.”Mrs. Fitzpatrick will be buried with a special Tiffany bracelet from her grandchildren. They engraved it with one of her favorite sayings, made as she observed her good-looking extended brood: “Not a dog in the bunch.”Visitation is from noon to 7:07 p.m. Sunday at Gibbons Funeral Home in Elmhurst, with a funeral Mass at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Pius X Catholic Church in Lombard.Annamae Fitzpatrick (the red-haired woman in the front next to the groom) and her extended family. Facebook photo...
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Monday, June 19, 2017Bee Cee Pro-Hardware, in Watsontown. She also worked part-time as a caregiver for Home Instead in recent years.She is survived by her children, Edward (Jane) Reiner of Oak Park, Calif., Sue Cain of Myrtle Beach, S.C., Jeffrey (Janet) Reiner of Omaha, Neb.; four grandchildren and their spouses, Dr. Benjamin C. Reiner, Ph.D. (Dr. Teresa Donze-Reiner, Ph.D.), Philadelphia, Melissa S Bintz (Russell Bintz), Lehigh, Iowa, Jennifer M Fuchs (Edward Fuchs) Montpelier, Vt. and Nicole Cain, Myrtle Beach, S.C.Betty was also blessed with five great-grandchildren, Evan, Ayden, and Jackson Bintz (Melissa), Everdean Fuchs (Jennifer), and Alexandra Reiner (Benjamin).Betty is survived by five siblings, Vonnie Mincemoyer, Barb Embeck, Elaine Springer, Jane Hunselman and Wade King.She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Reiner; two brothers, Barry King and John ‘Butch’ King; and a granddaughter, Cari Whittington (Cain).The family will receive friends and loved ones from 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday at Brooks Funeral Home, 124 Main St., Watsontown. Interment will follow at the Paradise Cemetery, rural Milton, with the Rev. Thomas Glasoe, of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Potts Grove, officiating.
Monday, March 06, 2017March 1, 2017. He was 60. Services will be private.Charlie Marshall Funeral Home.Juan G. GaonaBEEVILLE – Juan G. Gaona died March 1, 2017. He was 68. Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. March 4 at Oak Park Memorial Funeral Chapel. Cremation will follow.Enrique V. GarzaEnrique V. Garza died Feb. 26, 2017. He was 70.A graveside service will be at 1 p.m. March 6 at Coastal Bend State Veterans Cemetery.Corpus Christi Funeral HomeAndrea GonzalezAndrea Gonzalez died Feb. 22, 2017. She was 90.Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. March 4 at Corpus Christi Funeral Home.Martina Gonzalez VelascoROBSTOWN — Martina Gonzalez Velasco died Feb. 28, 2017. She was 51.Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. March 4 at the New Life Baptist Church. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery.Ramon Funeral HomeFrances L. HortonODEM — Frances Louise Horton died March 2, 2017. She was 80.Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. March 4 at Sinton Cemetery. Burial will follow.Ritchea-Gonzales Funeral Home, Inc.Hoa LamHoa "Henry" Lam died March 3, 2017. He was 54. Services will be at 2 p.m. March 5 at Guardian Funeral Home.Trinidad Salinas SalazarBEEVILLE — Trinidad Salinas Salazar died March 1, 2017. She was 96.Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. March 5 at Oak Park Memorial Funeral Chapel. Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. March. 6 at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church. Burial will follow in Our Lady of Victory Cemetery No. 2.Julia R. SanchezTAFT – Julia R. Sanchez died March 1, 2017. She was 95. Rosary will be recited 7 p.m. March 5 at Resthaven Funeral Home Chapel, Sinton. Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. March 6 at Immaculate Conception Church. Burial will follow in Taft Memorial Park Cemetery.Kaye Tarrant Durham HoltKaye Tarrant Durham Holt died Feb. 25, 2017. She was 97.Services will be at 3 p.m. March 4 at the Church of the Good Shepherd.Seaside Funeral HomeRead or Share this story: http://callertim.es/2lGW4D6...
Monday, February 20, 2017Phyllis Riley, age 94, of Oak Park Heights, Minn., formerly longtime Afton, Minn. resident, passed away on Feb. 16, 2017, at the Gables at Boutwell's Landing.Phyllis was born on June 11, 1922, in Rochester, the daughter of Allen and Alice (Hall) Haggerty. She grew up in Rochester, attended St. John the Evangelist High School, and went on to obtain an Associates Degree from St. Mary's School of Nursing in Rochester and a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Metropolitan State University.On July 18, 1948, she was united in marriage to William Joseph Riley, and they were blessed with eight children. Phyllis worked for many years as a Registered Nurse at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, and in 1968 became the Assistant Director of Education at Mounds Park Hospital.Phyllis placed great importance on her faith. She served as a Eucharist Minister at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Croixdale Retirement Community. She was also an active member of her parish. She loved spending time with her family and f...
Monday, December 19, 2016Elizabeth Simer. She had lived in The Clare for about five years.She was born Dorothy Shriver in Carlisle, Penn. She moved with her family to Oak Park when she was about 10 and graduated from what is now Oak Park and River Forest High School. Late in her life, she was still able to sing the fight song, her daughter said.Ogilvie began work as a secretary in a Chicago ad agency. After purchasing a small farm business, her father moved the family to Volo. Ogilvie moved with the family, commuting to her job in Chicago.Simer said her parents met in 1948 through a friend of her father's, who was engaged to a friend of one of her mother's sisters. Ogilvie insisted her husband-to-be pass the bar examination before they married in 1950, Simer said.Richard Ogilvie practiced law in Chicago and served as an assistant U.S. attorney. From 1958 to 1961, he served as a special assistant to the United States Attorney General heading an office fighting organized crime in Chicago.After her husband was elected governor in 1969, Dorothy Ogilvie and her family found that the mansion, then over 100 years old, had not aged gracefully. The couple found the executive mansion in Springfield to be in serious, even dangerous, disrepair, with temporary braces in place to support the structure."It was anything but a showplace," said Kathy Wonderlic Kolbe, who was special assistant to Ogilvie at the time. "Mrs. Ogilvie worked with the preservation team. … She was very encouraging of that preservation and very proud of the result."The family moved into rented quarters to make way for the restoration work."She was willing to forego the trappings of the wife of the governor," said John McCarter, who was the budget director in the administration."That was a measure of her, a measure of ...
Monday, November 28, 2016Friday.Sign up to get each day's obituaries sent to your email inboxSign up here to receive a daily email alert of local and national obituariesThe family would like to thank the staff at Oak Park Assisted Living and Memory care for their tender, loving care. We will miss you, Keith!...
Monday, October 31, 2016She stood 5-feet-10 thanks to what her children said were widely acknowledged as “the best legs on the West Side.”Young Annamae grew up in the “the Island” — where Chicago, Cicero and Oak Park meet near Roosevelt Road and Austin Boulevard. All her life, she stayed close with friends she made at St. Frances of Rome grade school and Siena High School.On her 18th birthday, she received a congratulatory phone call from James Fitzpatrick, who’d been born within hours of her at the same hospital, St. Anthony’s on the West Side. Their moms had become friends during their three-week-long postpartum hospital stays in the era before managed care, when a long stay wasn’t uncommon after giving birth. He wanted to ask her out before enlisting in the Navy during World War II. She liked to say he fell “head over heels” for her.Before they got married in 1948, she studied journalism at Northwestern University on scholarship. Mrs. Fitzpatrick also wrote for Bakers’ Helper magazine until the kids arrived, said another daughter, Maryann Brown. Later, she worked as an administrative assistant at a real estate office.The Fitzpatricks bought a home in Lombard on the GI Bill, and her husband started work as an embalmer. In 1965, at 40, he suffered a heart attack. Pregnant with their eighth child, she jokingly pleaded with James Fitzpatrick: “Do not take the coward’s way out.” He recovered and lived another 33 years.His career flourished after he switched from embalming to selling burial vaults, said their son, Kevin. It probably helped that he used to ply clients with loaves of Mrs. Fitzpatrick’s homemade white, date-nut, cinnamon-raisin and Irish soda bread.Countless times, her kids say, she had them deliver bread, brownies and dinner to neighbors experiencing sorrow and sickness. She also made sure they had holy water in the house.“She ordered it from Lourdes by the case,” said another daughter, Kathryn Elmore. “If they had troubles, they got the soda bread and the holy water.”Her son Jim, a college professor who has a master’s degree and a doctorate, said of his mother, “I’ve never met anybody who could listen and understand so quickly the complexity of anybody’s problems.”Mrs. Fitzpatrick will be buried with a special Tiffany bracelet from her grandchildren. They engraved it with one of her favorite sayings, made as she observed her good-looking extended brood: “Not a dog in the bunch.”Visitation is from noon to 7:07 p.m. Sunday at Gibbons Funeral Home in Elmhurst, with a funeral Mass at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Pius X Catholic Church in Lombard.Annamae Fitzpatrick (the red-haired woman in the front next to the groom) and her extended family. Facebook photo...
