Mary Alice Fransioli A Funeral Mass for Mary Alice Fransioli, 86, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 10, at St. John Neumann Catholic Church, 2900 E. Main St. (corner of Route 64 and Kirk Road), St. Charles. Monsignor Robert B. Hoffman will officiate. Interment will be in Queen of Heaven Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, May 9, at Yurs Funeral Home, 405 E. Main St. (corner of Route 64 and Route 25), St. Charles. Born Aug. 18, 1918, to Harry and Mary Kennaley, she passed away Saturday, April 30, 2005. Alice was a red-headed Irish girl from Kansas City, Mo. who attended Loretto Academy in Kansas City, then St. Mary's College in South Bend, Ind. During World War II, she met and married V. Garvin Fransioli. She was active in Immaculate Conception Church in Elmhurst, local politics, and was a Cub Scout and Camp Fire Girl leader, bird watcher, and avid gardener. Alice worked for the Elmhurst Community Chest Charity for several years. After Garvin's death in 1978, she moved back to Kansas City where she volunteered at St. Joseph's Hospital in Kansas City, and read the paper for the blind on Public Radio. She loved to travel and spoke fondly of her trips to Ireland and England. Alice moved from Kansas City to Geneva in 1992, where she made new friends at St. John Neumann and was reunited with her friends in Elmhurst. She was the beloved wife of the late Vincent Garvin Fransioli; mother of five children, Mary (Gary) Gilliland, M.D. of Greenville, N.C., Paul (Jane) of Las Vegas, Mark (Sherry) of St. Charles, Ellen (Joseph) DeSalvo of Elmhurst and David (Marion) of Mattoon, Ill.; fond grandmother of Laura Carter, Elise Shrabel, and Clare, Michael, Christopher J., Timothy and Brian Fransioli; great-grandmother of Zachary Carter, Faith, Hannah and Noelle Shrabel, and Christopher M. Fransioli; and dear sister of Kathleen O'Connor, Harryette Loschke and the late Larry Kennaley. She will also be missed by nieces, nephews and dear friends. For information, (630)584-0060.
Published in Chicago Suburban Daily Herald on May 4, 2005
Published in Chicago Suburban Daily Herald on May 4, 2005
Mary Alice Fransioli A Funeral Mass for Mary Alice Fransioli, 86, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 10, at St. John Neumann Catholic Church, 2900 E. Main St. (corner of Route 64 and Kirk Road), St. Charles. Monsignor Robert B. Hoffman will officiate. Interment will be in Queen of Heaven Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday, May 9, at Yurs Funeral Home, 405 E. Main St. (corner of Route 64 and Route 25), St. Charles. Born Aug. 18, 1918, to Harry and Mary Kennaley, she passed away Saturday, April 30, 2005. Alice was a red-headed Irish girl from Kansas City, Mo. who attended Loretto Academy in Kansas City, then St. Mary's College in South Bend, Ind. During World War II, she met and married V. Garvin Fransioli. She was active in Immaculate Conception Church in Elmhurst, local politics, and was a Cub Scout and Camp Fire Girl leader, bird watcher, and avid gardener. Alice worked for the Elmhurst Community Chest Charity for several years. After Garvin's death in 1978, she moved back to Kansas City where she volunteered at St. Joseph's Hospital in Kansas City, and read the paper for the blind on Public Radio. She loved to travel and spoke fondly of her trips to Ireland and England. Alice moved from Kansas City to Geneva in 1992, where she made new friends at St. John Neumann and was reunited with her friends in Elmhurst. She was the beloved wife of the late Vincent Garvin Fransioli; mother of five children, Mary (Gary) Gilliland, M.D. of Greenville, N.C., Paul (Jane) of Las Vegas, Mark (Sherry) of St. Charles, Ellen (Joseph) DeSalvo of Elmhurst and David (Marion) of Mattoon, Ill.; fond grandmother of Laura Carter, Elise Shrabel, and Clare, Michael, Christopher J., Timothy and Brian Fransioli; great-grandmother of Zachary Carter, Faith, Hannah and Noelle Shrabel, and Christopher M. Fransioli; and dear sister of Kathleen O'Connor, Harryette Loschke and the late Larry Kennaley. She will also be missed by nieces, nephews and dear friends. For information, (630)584-0060.
Published in Chicago Suburban Daily Herald on May 4, 2005
Published in Chicago Suburban Daily Herald on May 4, 2005
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