Born at home during the Depression and grew up during WWII to Victor HOUCHARD and Margaret ELLENA HOUCHARD. Attended Wilsonville Grade school, Gillespie High school and Business school in St. Louis, MO. When she finished school she moved to Chicago, IL to work. After a few years she went on vacation to Hollywood, CA and Loved it ! So much so that she had her Chicago roommate ship her things to her! She was not going back to IL. Places she lived , Wilsonville, IL, St Louis, MO , Chicago, IL, Hollywood, CA, Glendale, CA, and Simi Valley, CA . Of all the places she lived she loved Hollywood and Glendale California best!!!! She met and married Frank Montoro in Hollywood in 1955 at the Italian restaurant her friends owned and both her mother and Aunt Catherine worked at. They had 3 children together. Donna, Donald and Nancy. They gave her 6 grandchildren- Joe , Melissa , Ryan , Casey , Caitlyn and McKenna and 8 great grandchildren to date-Andrew, Ella. Victor , Alexis, Frankie , Vinnie, Candance and Charleigh.
Her hobbies- Sewing, Knitting, shopping , playing cards, Slots, reading and most of all going to lunch. She loved to stop someplace and eat when she was out. Dinner too.
Memories- Going to the old L.A. Zoo- Travel Town, Beach, Lunch
Learning how to do summer salts with her and Aunt Catherine in the front yard in Simi.
Her services held at Kravanya funeral Home Gillespie , IL Saturday February 13, 2021 ( Mask ARE Mandatory with lunch after at Wilsonville Progressive Club.
Her obit can be found on line at the funeral home web site and Benld IL news paper, NOTE- she is listed as homemaker but really wanted to be a career woman. Not easy to do in her day. she was a very good secretary before she followed her husband in his career which resulted in a move to the bedroom community Simi Valley, She was a good mother but her dream was that of a career women! That was not easy in her day,
She had a saying-" The Day you are Born it is wrote in a book the day you will die" she lived a long life . Her time to reunite with her heavenly family had come.
Her hobbies- Sewing, Knitting, shopping , playing cards, Slots, reading and most of all going to lunch. She loved to stop someplace and eat when she was out. Dinner too.
Memories- Going to the old L.A. Zoo- Travel Town, Beach, Lunch
Learning how to do summer salts with her and Aunt Catherine in the front yard in Simi.
Her services held at Kravanya funeral Home Gillespie , IL Saturday February 13, 2021 ( Mask ARE Mandatory with lunch after at Wilsonville Progressive Club.
Her obit can be found on line at the funeral home web site and Benld IL news paper, NOTE- she is listed as homemaker but really wanted to be a career woman. Not easy to do in her day. she was a very good secretary before she followed her husband in his career which resulted in a move to the bedroom community Simi Valley, She was a good mother but her dream was that of a career women! That was not easy in her day,
She had a saying-" The Day you are Born it is wrote in a book the day you will die" she lived a long life . Her time to reunite with her heavenly family had come.
Born at home during the Depression and grew up during WWII to Victor HOUCHARD and Margaret ELLENA HOUCHARD. Attended Wilsonville Grade school, Gillespie High school and Business school in St. Louis, MO. When she finished school she moved to Chicago, IL to work. After a few years she went on vacation to Hollywood, CA and Loved it ! So much so that she had her Chicago roommate ship her things to her! She was not going back to IL. Places she lived , Wilsonville, IL, St Louis, MO , Chicago, IL, Hollywood, CA, Glendale, CA, and Simi Valley, CA . Of all the places she lived she loved Hollywood and Glendale California best!!!! She met and married Frank Montoro in Hollywood in 1955 at the Italian restaurant her friends owned and both her mother and Aunt Catherine worked at. They had 3 children together. Donna, Donald and Nancy. They gave her 6 grandchildren- Joe , Melissa , Ryan , Casey , Caitlyn and McKenna and 8 great grandchildren to date-Andrew, Ella. Victor , Alexis, Frankie , Vinnie, Candance and Charleigh.
Her hobbies- Sewing, Knitting, shopping , playing cards, Slots, reading and most of all going to lunch. She loved to stop someplace and eat when she was out. Dinner too.
Memories- Going to the old L.A. Zoo- Travel Town, Beach, Lunch
Learning how to do summer salts with her and Aunt Catherine in the front yard in Simi.
Her services held at Kravanya funeral Home Gillespie , IL Saturday February 13, 2021 ( Mask ARE Mandatory with lunch after at Wilsonville Progressive Club.
Her obit can be found on line at the funeral home web site and Benld IL news paper, NOTE- she is listed as homemaker but really wanted to be a career woman. Not easy to do in her day. she was a very good secretary before she followed her husband in his career which resulted in a move to the bedroom community Simi Valley, She was a good mother but her dream was that of a career women! That was not easy in her day,
She had a saying-" The Day you are Born it is wrote in a book the day you will die" she lived a long life . Her time to reunite with her heavenly family had come.
Her hobbies- Sewing, Knitting, shopping , playing cards, Slots, reading and most of all going to lunch. She loved to stop someplace and eat when she was out. Dinner too.
Memories- Going to the old L.A. Zoo- Travel Town, Beach, Lunch
Learning how to do summer salts with her and Aunt Catherine in the front yard in Simi.
Her services held at Kravanya funeral Home Gillespie , IL Saturday February 13, 2021 ( Mask ARE Mandatory with lunch after at Wilsonville Progressive Club.
Her obit can be found on line at the funeral home web site and Benld IL news paper, NOTE- she is listed as homemaker but really wanted to be a career woman. Not easy to do in her day. she was a very good secretary before she followed her husband in his career which resulted in a move to the bedroom community Simi Valley, She was a good mother but her dream was that of a career women! That was not easy in her day,
She had a saying-" The Day you are Born it is wrote in a book the day you will die" she lived a long life . Her time to reunite with her heavenly family had come.
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