Frances Elaine WENZEL

Aus Find A Grave: Frances Elaine Wenzel Wickwire GEBURT 14 Okt 1922 Belvidere, Boone County, Illinois, USA TOD 18 Feb 2009 (im Alter von 86) Wheaton, DuPage County, Illinois, USA BESTATTUNG Maple Cemetery Kirkland, DeKalb County, Illinois, USA GEDENKSTÄTTEN-ID 34265408 FRANCES ELAINE (WENZEL) WICKWIRE, 86 BELVIDERE - Frances Elaine (Wenzel) Wickwire, 86, passed away quietly Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009, in Wynscape Nursing Home in Wheaton. She had been living at the Wyndemere Campus since 1992. Born Oct. 14, 1922, in Belvidere, to Earl and Florence (Biester) Wenzel. Earl operated the Wenzel Turkey Farm in Kirkland. She grew up during the Depression on the family farm, one mile south of Kirkland in DeKalb County, without heat, electricity or plumbing. She was educated in the two-room schoolhouse in Kirkland, where she was the valedictorian of her 1939 high school class. She graduated from the University of Illinois in 1943, with a degree in teaching and business and was a member of the Chi Omega sorority. Her senior year, she was selected for the Mortar Board Honor Society. After graduation, during the war, she took a job for the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, and worked out of Omaha, Neb., routing rail traffic through its Midwest hub. After the war, she taught typing and bookkeeping at the Pearl City High School for one year. On July 3, 1946, she married Guy Ely Wickwire of Belvidere in the Methodist Church in Kirkland. She and Guy railed their family in Glen Ellyn. In 1959 and 1960, Frannie was the president of the Glen Ellyn PTA. In 1963-64, she was on the fundraising committee that raised the money to start up the Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield. In 1970, she went to work for Merrill Lynch in downtown Chicago. She was in the very first class that included women as registered reps (stockbrokers) for the firm. Fran was in institutional equity sales; in charge of the entire Chicago area employee stock purchase plans for Merrill Lynch, working on the 82nd floor of the Sears Tower, until her retirement in 1982. In 1992, she and Guy moved from Glen Ellyn to the Wyndemere Independent Living Center in Wheaton. They were active in several bridge and investment clubs and traveled extensively. She was a lifelong member of the Methodist Church. She was an avid fan of the Cubs and Bears and all of the University of Illinois sports teams. She was also an officer and active in the PEO, helping to found several chapters and most recently a member of the NP Chapter of Winfield. Her daughter, Barb Christiansen, was her guardian and took excellent care of her during her later years. Survived by children, Guy Earl Wickwire of San Antonio and Barbara (Matt) Christiansen of West Chicago; grandchildren, Laura, Bond, Neal and Samantha Wickwire and Carol and Keith Christiansen; and sister, Iolene (Richard) Wedel of Rockford. Predeceased by parents; and beloved husband, Guy, in 1999. Visitation from 10 a.m. Monday, Feb. 23, to time of funeral service at 11 a.m. in First United Methodist Church of Glen Ellyn, with interment in Maple Cemetery in Kirkland next to Guy. Arrangements are with the Leonard Memorial Home of Glen Ellyn, 630-469-0032. Published in the rrstar.com from 2/21/2009 - 2/27/2009 Familienmitglieder Eltern Earl Louis Wenzel 1895-1971 Florence Iolene Biester Wenzel 1894-1980 Ehepartner Guy Ely Wickwire 1916-1999 Kinder Guy Earl Wickwire 1947-2015

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