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Sugar Grove, IL, Emily Ravlin Frantz, Obituary (1917 - 2007)
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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 died on Monday, January 15, 2007 at McAuley Manor in Aurora. She was born to Lois Pittaway and Harold Humiston Ravlin on May 31, 1917 on a farm in Kaneville, Illinois where she grew up and went to school until moving to Sugar Grove, Illinois on the Bliss farm in 1932. She married Thomas T. Frantz of Sugar Grove on July 2, 1939, in the farm house living room.
They lived in Aurora during the war years, in Sugar Grove from 1946 to 1952 (in the oldest house in the township which is now the office of the Sugar Grove Historical Society), and back in Aurora ever since.
She was PTA President of the Sugar Grove Grade School, Center School in Aurora, and East High School, worked at the Beacon-News and later at Brady School, and sang in the choir and was active in Fourth Street Methodist Church for 54 years.
Emily is survived by her devoted husband of 67 years, Tom of Aurora; four children, Dr. Tom (Donna) Frantz, a university professor in Buffalo, NY, Dr. Jeffrey (Yvette) Frantz, a United Church of Christ minister in Miami Lakes, FL, Doug (Dianne) Frantz, president of Gulliford Sales in Minneapolis, MN and Lois (Joe) Yoches, former high school tennis coach in Peoria, IL; 12 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren; and her only sibling, Lloyd Ravlin of Romeoville, IL.
She is preceded in death by her parents.
Emily's passion besides her family was her painting and artwork. She was a member of the Aurora Art League, showing her work in various art shows in the area for 30 years.
A memorial visitation will be held from 6:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. on Sunday, January 21, 2007 at the Moss Family Funeral Home, 209 S. Batavia Ave. (Rt. 31) in Batavia.
A memorial service will be 11:00 A.M. Monday, January 22, at the Fourth Street Methodist Church, 551 Fourth Street, Aurora, IL. Interment will be private in the Sugar Grove Cemetery next to the farm where she lived as a teenager. She will be remembered as loving, wise, steadfast, gentle, and the best wife and mother we ever could have imagined.
Memorials in Emily's name may be directed to the Fourth Street Methodist Church.
For additional information, please contact the Moss Family Funeral Home in Batavia at 630-879-7900.
Published in the Beacon News on 1/19/2007.
Source:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17564204/emily-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 died on Monday, January 15, 2007 at McAuley Manor in Aurora. She was born to Lois Pittaway and Harold Humiston Ravlin on May 31, 1917 on a farm in Kaneville, Illinois where she grew up and went to school until moving to Sugar Grove, Illinois on the Bliss farm in 1932. She married Thomas T. Frantz of Sugar Grove on July 2, 1939, in the farm house living room.
They lived in Aurora during the war years, in Sugar Grove from 1946 to 1952 (in the oldest house in the township which is now the office of the Sugar Grove Historical Society), and back in Aurora ever since.
She was PTA President of the Sugar Grove Grade School, Center School in Aurora, and East High School, worked at the Beacon-News and later at Brady School, and sang in the choir and was active in Fourth Street Methodist Church for 54 years.
Emily is survived by her devoted husband of 67 years, Tom of Aurora; four children, Dr. Tom (Donna) Frantz, a university professor in Buffalo, NY, Dr. Jeffrey (Yvette) Frantz, a United Church of Christ minister in Miami Lakes, FL, Doug (Dianne) Frantz, president of Gulliford Sales in Minneapolis, MN and Lois (Joe) Yoches, former high school tennis coach in Peoria, IL; 12 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren; and her only sibling, Lloyd Ravlin of Romeoville, IL.
She is preceded in death by her parents.
Emily's passion besides her family was her painting and artwork. She was a member of the Aurora Art League, showing her work in various art shows in the area for 30 years.
A memorial visitation will be held from 6:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. on Sunday, January 21, 2007 at the Moss Family Funeral Home, 209 S. Batavia Ave. (Rt. 31) in Batavia.
A memorial service will be 11:00 A.M. Monday, January 22, at the Fourth Street Methodist Church, 551 Fourth Street, Aurora, IL. Interment will be private in the Sugar Grove Cemetery next to the farm where she lived as a teenager. She will be remembered as loving, wise, steadfast, gentle, and the best wife and mother we ever could have imagined.
Memorials in Emily's name may be directed to the Fourth Street Methodist Church.
For additional information, please contact the Moss Family Funeral Home in Batavia at 630-879-7900.
Published in the Beacon News on 1/19/2007.
Source:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17564204/emily-frantz
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