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Star on High: Clare Frantz makes adjustments to a star loaded with lights above the doorway of his Sugar Grove home. The star has graced the Frantz's home during Christmastime for years.

Chicago Tribune, DuPage…

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Clare Groff Frantz Jr.
BIRTH 4 Dec 1914
Moorestown, Burlington County, New Jersey, USA
DEATH 17 Aug 2010 (aged 95)
Sugar Grove, Kane County, Illinois, USA
BURIAL
Sugar Grove Cemetery
Sugar Grove, Kane County, Illinois, USA

Clare Groff…

Sugar Grove, IL, Clare Groff Frantz Jr, 1930s (1914-2010)
Posed in the north side lawn of Hotel West. In the background is the south facade of Keck's Store and on the far right is the corner of the building that several years hence Groff will own.

The story of Groff Frantz as a boy during the…

The Sugar Grove Center School was built in the fall of 1848. It was a two story building on the east side of Main Street about where the street now ends near the present Route 30. The first floor was school rooms and the second floor was a large…

Camp Ke De Ka 0012.pdf
The Gateway to Citizenship Training

6-2019 Newsletter Troop 41.pdf
Newsletter Article 2019
Troop 41 was established in 1949 and has 70 years of history partnering with the Sugar Grove United Methodist Church, working with youth, and serving the Sugar Grove Community.

To commemorate the 70th Anniversary of Troop…

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Lois Frantz Yoches lived in the Bliss House. The picture is from the early 1950s.

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Work crew--Ruth Frantz, Norland Phelps, Ted (thru roof), (doorway--Joe Hollmier, Lee Thompson), Barb, Mary, & Irv Oxie

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November 14, 2006

Dear Ruth Frantz,

I thought you would like to know:

Ashe Road was named after the Ashe Family who owned a farm on that Road. The Ashe name ends with an "e". I'm sorry we don't have much history to pass on…

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The Frantzes in front of an antique car
Ruth Frantz, Clair Frantz

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Clare Groff Frantz: Wheels of Fortune Motorcycle Club, 1971 Beacon News
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BEACON NEWS, AURORA, ILLINOIS
Tuesday August 17, 1971

CLASSIC CYCLE

This 1941 Indian "4," owned by Wheels of Fortune Motorcycle Club…

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Four class of '35 graduates eating a meal together
Tom Frantz, Emily Ravlin Frantz, Frank O'Brien, Nellie McCanno

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Emily Ravlin Frantz
BIRTH 31 May 1917
Kaneville, Kane County, Illinois, USA
DEATH 15 Jan 2007 (aged 89)
Aurora, Kane County, Illinois, USA
BURIAL Sugar Grove Cemetery
Sugar Grove, Kane County, Illinois, USA

Emily Ravlin Frantz, 89, of Aurora…

Sugar Grove Long TImers.pdf
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Charles Ogle, Helen Ogle, Audrey Claesson, Marge Tremain, Dr. John Marks, Evelyn Kam, Henry Kam, Maxie Todd, Lillian Damon, Frank Damon, Jim Judd, Shirley Judd, Reinette Dugan, Marge Tremain, Dr. McCannon, Grace McCannon,…

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Luella Perkins, Bertha Myers, Effie West, Nell Johnson, Stella Myers, Minnie Dugan: A group of women standing outside of Minnie Dugar's house.

(Photo archived in "Groups" Binder.)

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Norma Anderson, Sharon Wilder, Carol Ottum, Ruth Kreighbaum, Vickie Keck, Sharon Stayner, Ruth Frantz, Karen McCannon, Helen Jorgenson, Rita Raspillar, Susan Jahr

A picture of the Sugar Grove News Staff in 1977.

(Photo archived in…

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Doug Frantz and Lois Frantz Yoches at Bliss House. 1950s.

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Frantz Family
Clare Groff Frantz Jr., Clare Groff Frantz Sr., and Thomas Frantz
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