Sugar Grove, IL, Clare Groff Frantz Sr. (1880-1983): Obituary

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Sugar Grove, IL, Clare Groff Frantz Sr. (1880-1983): Obituary

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Clare Groff Frantz, Sr.
BIRTH 29 Dec 1880
Washington County, Maryland, USA
DEATH 27 Dec 1983 (aged 102)
Aurora, Kane County, Illinois, USA
BURIAL Sugar Grove Cemetery
Sugar Grove, Kane County, Illinois, USA

Clare Groff Frantz, 102, of Aurora, formerly of Sugar Grove, died Tuesday, December 27, 1983 at Aurora Manor Care Center.

He was born on December 29, 1880 in Washington County, Maryland, the son of Benjamin F. and Martha (Funk) Frantz. He married Eleanor Tague on March 3, 1912.

He and his wife made their first home in Moorestown, New Jersey where he began his newspaper and magazine sales career. He moved to Chicago in 1918. He became employed with the Chicago Daily Drovers Journal. He later represented the publication throughout the DuPage, Kane, Kendall and DeKalb Country areas, until the Journal closed in the later 1940s. In 1920, the family moved to Sugar Grove. He worked there in partnership with his son, Clare Groff Frantz Jr., at the Sugar Grove Machine Shop. He was a member of the Sugar Grove United Methodist Church, the Sugar Grove Famer’s Club and for more than 50 years was a member of the Jerusalem Temple Lodge No. 90 at Aurora.

He is survived by two sons, Tom (Emily) Frantz of Aurora and Clare (Ruth) Frantz of Sugar Grove; eight grandchildren; 20 great grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his wife, three brothers and three sisters.

Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Conley Funeral Home in Elburn. Burial will be in Sugar Grove Cemetery.

Visitation is from noon until the time of the service Wednesday at Conley Funeral Home.


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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77513698/clare-groff-frantz

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