Grace Lucille Ritenour

Grace Lucille Ritenour, age 85, of Lanark, Illinois died, Monday, July 03, 2006, at the Good Samaritan Nursing Home, Mt. Carroll, Illinois. A Funeral Service will be held 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 7, 2006, at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Mt. Carroll with Pastor David Vidler officiating. Burial will in Oak Hill Cemetery, Mt. Carroll. Visitation will be held from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Thursday, July 6, 2006, at the Frank-Law-Jones, Funeral Home Mt. Carroll. Memorials may be given in Graces name to FHN Hospice and the First Evangelical Lutheran Church. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.lawjonesfuneralhome.com .
Grace was born, November 14, 1920 in Mt. Carroll, the daughter of Harry and Cora (Hartman) Rogers. She graduated from Mt. Carroll High School with the Class of 1938. On November 23, 1940, Grace married Ronald Ritenour, in Clinton, Iowa. She had worked at the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) Office in Mt. Carroll.
Grace and her husband, Ronald, loved spending time together. She was a member of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mt. Carroll, and the Savanna Women of the Moose, Savanna, Illinois. Grace enjoyed crocheting, sewing, fishing and bowling.
Grace will be dearly missed by her husband, Ronald Ritenour of Lanark; her sister, Helen Dykstra of Morrison; and her brother, Harold (Dorothy) Rogers of Mt. Carroll.
Grace is preceded in death by her parents; three brothers; Donald, Paul, and Kenneth Rogers; and two sisters; Mary Edmonds and Edna Buxton Boerema.