Ethel L. Moritz, age 100, died on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at Azura Memory Care in Monroe. Ethel was born on August 8, 1915 in Courtney, North Dakota, the daughter of William and Daisy (Potts) Scharf. She attended schools in North Dakota until successive wheat failures required the family to move back to Amboy, Illinois. She finished her high school education at Amboy High School.
Ethel married Ray Moritz, whom she met in North Dakota, and they farmed in the Dixon, Illinois area. She was a longtime bookkeeper at F.W. Woolworth, in Dixon. Ethel was most proud that she was descended from the family of Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
She is survived by a daughter, Lois C. (Jim) Glessner, a resident of Pleasant View Nursing Home in Monroe; six grandchildren; ten great grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren. She had raised one of her grandchildren, William Moritz, of Dixon, to adulthood. She is predeceased in death by her husband; two sons; a sister and brother-in-law, Audrey and Troy Porter.
Ethel had moved to Monroe following the deaths of her sons, with whom she had resided, to be near her remaining family.
Funeral service will be held on Monday, October 19, 2015 at 11:00 A.M. at Shriner-Hager-Gohlke Funeral Home, with Rev. David Busker officiating. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Cemetery in Dixon, Illinois. Friends may call on Monday from 10:00 A.M. until time of service at the funeral home.
Condolences may be made sent to the family at: shriner111.com.
Ethel married Ray Moritz, whom she met in North Dakota, and they farmed in the Dixon, Illinois area. She was a longtime bookkeeper at F.W. Woolworth, in Dixon. Ethel was most proud that she was descended from the family of Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
She is survived by a daughter, Lois C. (Jim) Glessner, a resident of Pleasant View Nursing Home in Monroe; six grandchildren; ten great grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren. She had raised one of her grandchildren, William Moritz, of Dixon, to adulthood. She is predeceased in death by her husband; two sons; a sister and brother-in-law, Audrey and Troy Porter.
Ethel had moved to Monroe following the deaths of her sons, with whom she had resided, to be near her remaining family.
Funeral service will be held on Monday, October 19, 2015 at 11:00 A.M. at Shriner-Hager-Gohlke Funeral Home, with Rev. David Busker officiating. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Cemetery in Dixon, Illinois. Friends may call on Monday from 10:00 A.M. until time of service at the funeral home.
Condolences may be made sent to the family at: shriner111.com.