Hi Family,
Just wanted to share that my Momma died early this Friday morning - 3:30 CST at her residence in Janesville, Wisconsin with Rick by her side. She had chest pains at 3 PM on Wednesday. And, Friday morning her heart stopped. Mom did not suffer. Magnificently she had her memory until the end! It was a joy to talk with her. She was so kind, loving and patient! Everyone said that she was "a lady".
Rick was unbelievable in his tending to her all of these past few years - sleeping beside her hospital bed on the couch! Randy was there at every need, as well. And, my sister for her nursing help. She had care-takers 24-7 who embraced her holistic diet with mostly raw and cooked organic vegetables and fruit that I helped to coach. Lori Kraus became like a daughter in tending to Mom. Thank you my friend, Randi Phillips, for Sponsoring this Memorial page for our Mother! Thank you all.
She lived a wonderful life and she thanks all of you for your family love and the pursuit for working on the family tree with her. She and Rick wrote her obituary some time ago! It is a wonderful tale of a life well-lived. It reads more like a resume with her unending energy and talents!
It looks like her farewell service will be in one week. Must be those flowers that the brothers are ordering! :O) {Amazon Lilies were her favorite.} They are setting the arrangements this afternoon, but it looks like Visitation will be Wednesday and a private service on Thursday at the flower shop. The same as we did with Dad. There will be Sylvia, the harp player during visitation. And, hundreds of her life-long family photographs will be displayed.
There should be no sadness or tears! Momma celebrated her life everyday with all of the people and activities she loved and was involved in! When us four kids go home for her funeral -- I guarantee it will be a "Celebration of Life"!
Thank you all for being a part of our lives in this journey...Family love, Wendy
"January 24, 1921 - April 8, 2016
Elnora Lydia Seifferlein Leyes
Janesville- Elnora Lydia Leyes, 95 a Janesville resident since 1949 passed away April 8, 2016 at her home. She was born January 24, 1921 in New Buffalo, MI, daughter of Fred and Lydia (Hetzel) Seifferlein. She received a business degree from the South Bend College of Commerce, and during World War II, she served as a civil service secretary for the Army Air Forces. On December 17, 1943, Elnora married Richard (Dick) Leyes at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. After the war, Elnora and he attended Michigan State College in East Lansing, MI. She majored in floriculture and graduated in 1948 with a Bachelor of Science degree. Subsequently, they attended Bright's School of Floral Design in Chicago. In 1949, she and Dick were hired as co-managers by the Janesville Floral Company, and in 1951, they purchased the company. In the early 1950s, they also opened a second floral business, the Leyes Lakeland Florist, in Delavan. Together, they significantly expanded the Janesville Floral Company, and in 1976, they developed and opened a new shop location across from Mercy Hospital. She was dedicated to her profession, a florist's florist, and created beautiful, high quality floral designs throughout her career. Her professional and personal memberships included Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD) organization, in which she was Secretary of the Wisconsin 7-G District, Wisconsin Upper Michigan Florists' Association, Society of American Florists, Janesville Home and Garden Club, co-founder of the Bower City Garden Club, President of the South Central District of the Wisconsin Garden Club Federation, National Council of State Garden Clubs, American Association of University Women, First Congregational Church, and in 2010, she received FTD's prestigious national Lifetime Achievement Award. She also received an Associate Degree in nursing from Blackhawk Technical Institute in 1980. She had a long interest in and practiced personal holistic wellness. She was a loving mother and wife and was always involved in her family's interests and activities. She was a life-long, dedicated genealogist and enjoyed researching her German-Swiss heritage and traveling in her ancestor's footsteps. She was a very generous person with her family and friends and personable with everyone.
She is survived by her sister Eileen Piehl; children: Rick Leyes, Randy (Rita) Leyes, Wendy (John) Leyes Corcoran and _______ ; grandchildren: Amanda (Tom) Pellizzi and ______ and _______; great grandchild Nicholas; many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Dick, her brother Hilmer Seifferlein, and her grandson ________. [Names left blank out of request by my sister.]
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at Henke-Clarson Funeral Home, 1010 N. Wright Rd. A private funeral service will be held later. Interment will be at Oak Hill Cemetery.
Elnora would like to express her sincerest appreciation to the many employees and customers of the Janesville Floral Company, who made the family business successful, and to the dedicated health care professionals and her caregivers who helped her during her time of need."
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Our family flower shop was closed March 2017. Ending generations of family service to our community, We thank all of the employees and the patrons through our 100 years of service for making flower design our art.
Just wanted to share that my Momma died early this Friday morning - 3:30 CST at her residence in Janesville, Wisconsin with Rick by her side. She had chest pains at 3 PM on Wednesday. And, Friday morning her heart stopped. Mom did not suffer. Magnificently she had her memory until the end! It was a joy to talk with her. She was so kind, loving and patient! Everyone said that she was "a lady".
Rick was unbelievable in his tending to her all of these past few years - sleeping beside her hospital bed on the couch! Randy was there at every need, as well. And, my sister for her nursing help. She had care-takers 24-7 who embraced her holistic diet with mostly raw and cooked organic vegetables and fruit that I helped to coach. Lori Kraus became like a daughter in tending to Mom. Thank you my friend, Randi Phillips, for Sponsoring this Memorial page for our Mother! Thank you all.
She lived a wonderful life and she thanks all of you for your family love and the pursuit for working on the family tree with her. She and Rick wrote her obituary some time ago! It is a wonderful tale of a life well-lived. It reads more like a resume with her unending energy and talents!
It looks like her farewell service will be in one week. Must be those flowers that the brothers are ordering! :O) {Amazon Lilies were her favorite.} They are setting the arrangements this afternoon, but it looks like Visitation will be Wednesday and a private service on Thursday at the flower shop. The same as we did with Dad. There will be Sylvia, the harp player during visitation. And, hundreds of her life-long family photographs will be displayed.
There should be no sadness or tears! Momma celebrated her life everyday with all of the people and activities she loved and was involved in! When us four kids go home for her funeral -- I guarantee it will be a "Celebration of Life"!
Thank you all for being a part of our lives in this journey...Family love, Wendy
"January 24, 1921 - April 8, 2016
Elnora Lydia Seifferlein Leyes
Janesville- Elnora Lydia Leyes, 95 a Janesville resident since 1949 passed away April 8, 2016 at her home. She was born January 24, 1921 in New Buffalo, MI, daughter of Fred and Lydia (Hetzel) Seifferlein. She received a business degree from the South Bend College of Commerce, and during World War II, she served as a civil service secretary for the Army Air Forces. On December 17, 1943, Elnora married Richard (Dick) Leyes at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. After the war, Elnora and he attended Michigan State College in East Lansing, MI. She majored in floriculture and graduated in 1948 with a Bachelor of Science degree. Subsequently, they attended Bright's School of Floral Design in Chicago. In 1949, she and Dick were hired as co-managers by the Janesville Floral Company, and in 1951, they purchased the company. In the early 1950s, they also opened a second floral business, the Leyes Lakeland Florist, in Delavan. Together, they significantly expanded the Janesville Floral Company, and in 1976, they developed and opened a new shop location across from Mercy Hospital. She was dedicated to her profession, a florist's florist, and created beautiful, high quality floral designs throughout her career. Her professional and personal memberships included Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD) organization, in which she was Secretary of the Wisconsin 7-G District, Wisconsin Upper Michigan Florists' Association, Society of American Florists, Janesville Home and Garden Club, co-founder of the Bower City Garden Club, President of the South Central District of the Wisconsin Garden Club Federation, National Council of State Garden Clubs, American Association of University Women, First Congregational Church, and in 2010, she received FTD's prestigious national Lifetime Achievement Award. She also received an Associate Degree in nursing from Blackhawk Technical Institute in 1980. She had a long interest in and practiced personal holistic wellness. She was a loving mother and wife and was always involved in her family's interests and activities. She was a life-long, dedicated genealogist and enjoyed researching her German-Swiss heritage and traveling in her ancestor's footsteps. She was a very generous person with her family and friends and personable with everyone.
She is survived by her sister Eileen Piehl; children: Rick Leyes, Randy (Rita) Leyes, Wendy (John) Leyes Corcoran and _______ ; grandchildren: Amanda (Tom) Pellizzi and ______ and _______; great grandchild Nicholas; many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Dick, her brother Hilmer Seifferlein, and her grandson ________. [Names left blank out of request by my sister.]
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at Henke-Clarson Funeral Home, 1010 N. Wright Rd. A private funeral service will be held later. Interment will be at Oak Hill Cemetery.
Elnora would like to express her sincerest appreciation to the many employees and customers of the Janesville Floral Company, who made the family business successful, and to the dedicated health care professionals and her caregivers who helped her during her time of need."
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Our family flower shop was closed March 2017. Ending generations of family service to our community, We thank all of the employees and the patrons through our 100 years of service for making flower design our art.
Hi Family,
Just wanted to share that my Momma died early this Friday morning - 3:30 CST at her residence in Janesville, Wisconsin with Rick by her side. She had chest pains at 3 PM on Wednesday. And, Friday morning her heart stopped. Mom did not suffer. Magnificently she had her memory until the end! It was a joy to talk with her. She was so kind, loving and patient! Everyone said that she was "a lady".
Rick was unbelievable in his tending to her all of these past few years - sleeping beside her hospital bed on the couch! Randy was there at every need, as well. And, my sister for her nursing help. She had care-takers 24-7 who embraced her holistic diet with mostly raw and cooked organic vegetables and fruit that I helped to coach. Lori Kraus became like a daughter in tending to Mom. Thank you my friend, Randi Phillips, for Sponsoring this Memorial page for our Mother! Thank you all.
She lived a wonderful life and she thanks all of you for your family love and the pursuit for working on the family tree with her. She and Rick wrote her obituary some time ago! It is a wonderful tale of a life well-lived. It reads more like a resume with her unending energy and talents!
It looks like her farewell service will be in one week. Must be those flowers that the brothers are ordering! :O) {Amazon Lilies were her favorite.} They are setting the arrangements this afternoon, but it looks like Visitation will be Wednesday and a private service on Thursday at the flower shop. The same as we did with Dad. There will be Sylvia, the harp player during visitation. And, hundreds of her life-long family photographs will be displayed.
There should be no sadness or tears! Momma celebrated her life everyday with all of the people and activities she loved and was involved in! When us four kids go home for her funeral -- I guarantee it will be a "Celebration of Life"!
Thank you all for being a part of our lives in this journey...Family love, Wendy
"January 24, 1921 - April 8, 2016
Elnora Lydia Seifferlein Leyes
Janesville- Elnora Lydia Leyes, 95 a Janesville resident since 1949 passed away April 8, 2016 at her home. She was born January 24, 1921 in New Buffalo, MI, daughter of Fred and Lydia (Hetzel) Seifferlein. She received a business degree from the South Bend College of Commerce, and during World War II, she served as a civil service secretary for the Army Air Forces. On December 17, 1943, Elnora married Richard (Dick) Leyes at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. After the war, Elnora and he attended Michigan State College in East Lansing, MI. She majored in floriculture and graduated in 1948 with a Bachelor of Science degree. Subsequently, they attended Bright's School of Floral Design in Chicago. In 1949, she and Dick were hired as co-managers by the Janesville Floral Company, and in 1951, they purchased the company. In the early 1950s, they also opened a second floral business, the Leyes Lakeland Florist, in Delavan. Together, they significantly expanded the Janesville Floral Company, and in 1976, they developed and opened a new shop location across from Mercy Hospital. She was dedicated to her profession, a florist's florist, and created beautiful, high quality floral designs throughout her career. Her professional and personal memberships included Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD) organization, in which she was Secretary of the Wisconsin 7-G District, Wisconsin Upper Michigan Florists' Association, Society of American Florists, Janesville Home and Garden Club, co-founder of the Bower City Garden Club, President of the South Central District of the Wisconsin Garden Club Federation, National Council of State Garden Clubs, American Association of University Women, First Congregational Church, and in 2010, she received FTD's prestigious national Lifetime Achievement Award. She also received an Associate Degree in nursing from Blackhawk Technical Institute in 1980. She had a long interest in and practiced personal holistic wellness. She was a loving mother and wife and was always involved in her family's interests and activities. She was a life-long, dedicated genealogist and enjoyed researching her German-Swiss heritage and traveling in her ancestor's footsteps. She was a very generous person with her family and friends and personable with everyone.
She is survived by her sister Eileen Piehl; children: Rick Leyes, Randy (Rita) Leyes, Wendy (John) Leyes Corcoran and _______ ; grandchildren: Amanda (Tom) Pellizzi and ______ and _______; great grandchild Nicholas; many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Dick, her brother Hilmer Seifferlein, and her grandson ________. [Names left blank out of request by my sister.]
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at Henke-Clarson Funeral Home, 1010 N. Wright Rd. A private funeral service will be held later. Interment will be at Oak Hill Cemetery.
Elnora would like to express her sincerest appreciation to the many employees and customers of the Janesville Floral Company, who made the family business successful, and to the dedicated health care professionals and her caregivers who helped her during her time of need."
~ ~ ღ.¸¸.•'¯'♥ ♥'¯'•.¸¸.ღ ~~
Our family flower shop was closed March 2017. Ending generations of family service to our community, We thank all of the employees and the patrons through our 100 years of service for making flower design our art.
Just wanted to share that my Momma died early this Friday morning - 3:30 CST at her residence in Janesville, Wisconsin with Rick by her side. She had chest pains at 3 PM on Wednesday. And, Friday morning her heart stopped. Mom did not suffer. Magnificently she had her memory until the end! It was a joy to talk with her. She was so kind, loving and patient! Everyone said that she was "a lady".
Rick was unbelievable in his tending to her all of these past few years - sleeping beside her hospital bed on the couch! Randy was there at every need, as well. And, my sister for her nursing help. She had care-takers 24-7 who embraced her holistic diet with mostly raw and cooked organic vegetables and fruit that I helped to coach. Lori Kraus became like a daughter in tending to Mom. Thank you my friend, Randi Phillips, for Sponsoring this Memorial page for our Mother! Thank you all.
She lived a wonderful life and she thanks all of you for your family love and the pursuit for working on the family tree with her. She and Rick wrote her obituary some time ago! It is a wonderful tale of a life well-lived. It reads more like a resume with her unending energy and talents!
It looks like her farewell service will be in one week. Must be those flowers that the brothers are ordering! :O) {Amazon Lilies were her favorite.} They are setting the arrangements this afternoon, but it looks like Visitation will be Wednesday and a private service on Thursday at the flower shop. The same as we did with Dad. There will be Sylvia, the harp player during visitation. And, hundreds of her life-long family photographs will be displayed.
There should be no sadness or tears! Momma celebrated her life everyday with all of the people and activities she loved and was involved in! When us four kids go home for her funeral -- I guarantee it will be a "Celebration of Life"!
Thank you all for being a part of our lives in this journey...Family love, Wendy
"January 24, 1921 - April 8, 2016
Elnora Lydia Seifferlein Leyes
Janesville- Elnora Lydia Leyes, 95 a Janesville resident since 1949 passed away April 8, 2016 at her home. She was born January 24, 1921 in New Buffalo, MI, daughter of Fred and Lydia (Hetzel) Seifferlein. She received a business degree from the South Bend College of Commerce, and during World War II, she served as a civil service secretary for the Army Air Forces. On December 17, 1943, Elnora married Richard (Dick) Leyes at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. After the war, Elnora and he attended Michigan State College in East Lansing, MI. She majored in floriculture and graduated in 1948 with a Bachelor of Science degree. Subsequently, they attended Bright's School of Floral Design in Chicago. In 1949, she and Dick were hired as co-managers by the Janesville Floral Company, and in 1951, they purchased the company. In the early 1950s, they also opened a second floral business, the Leyes Lakeland Florist, in Delavan. Together, they significantly expanded the Janesville Floral Company, and in 1976, they developed and opened a new shop location across from Mercy Hospital. She was dedicated to her profession, a florist's florist, and created beautiful, high quality floral designs throughout her career. Her professional and personal memberships included Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD) organization, in which she was Secretary of the Wisconsin 7-G District, Wisconsin Upper Michigan Florists' Association, Society of American Florists, Janesville Home and Garden Club, co-founder of the Bower City Garden Club, President of the South Central District of the Wisconsin Garden Club Federation, National Council of State Garden Clubs, American Association of University Women, First Congregational Church, and in 2010, she received FTD's prestigious national Lifetime Achievement Award. She also received an Associate Degree in nursing from Blackhawk Technical Institute in 1980. She had a long interest in and practiced personal holistic wellness. She was a loving mother and wife and was always involved in her family's interests and activities. She was a life-long, dedicated genealogist and enjoyed researching her German-Swiss heritage and traveling in her ancestor's footsteps. She was a very generous person with her family and friends and personable with everyone.
She is survived by her sister Eileen Piehl; children: Rick Leyes, Randy (Rita) Leyes, Wendy (John) Leyes Corcoran and _______ ; grandchildren: Amanda (Tom) Pellizzi and ______ and _______; great grandchild Nicholas; many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Dick, her brother Hilmer Seifferlein, and her grandson ________. [Names left blank out of request by my sister.]
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at Henke-Clarson Funeral Home, 1010 N. Wright Rd. A private funeral service will be held later. Interment will be at Oak Hill Cemetery.
Elnora would like to express her sincerest appreciation to the many employees and customers of the Janesville Floral Company, who made the family business successful, and to the dedicated health care professionals and her caregivers who helped her during her time of need."
~ ~ ღ.¸¸.•'¯'♥ ♥'¯'•.¸¸.ღ ~~
Our family flower shop was closed March 2017. Ending generations of family service to our community, We thank all of the employees and the patrons through our 100 years of service for making flower design our art.
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