Memorial ID # 30583852
Contributor: Jane (47569466)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
The Des Moines Register
Nov. 10, 1962
Obituary
Frances Isabel Bray Van Liew
Mrs. Frances B. Van Liew, 69, a founder of the Des Moines Catholic Mother's Club and widow of the late Dennis J. Van Liew, pioneer Des Moines banker, died of pneumonia Friday in Bishop Drumm Home for the Aged. She had been ill several months with Parkinson's disease.
Born in Grinnell, she was graduated from Grinnell College and taught English and Latin at old West High School here before her marriage in 1921. Mr. Van Liew, vice-president of Capital City State Bank, died in 1944.
Van Liew was past president of the Des Moines Bankers Wives Club, and a member of the American Association of University Women, Catholic Daughters, Catholic Women's League, Des Moines Women's Club and St. Augustin's Catholic Church.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in St. Augustin's Catholic Church. The rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Monday in Dunn's Funeral Home.
Surviving are a son, Dennis J., Des Moines; two daughters, Mrs. John F. McLaughlin, Jr., St. Louis, Mo., and Mrs. Edwin S. Williams, El Paso, Tex; two brothers, Thomas J. Bray, Oskaloosa, and Lyle W. Bray, Sacramento, Cal; three sisters, Mrs. John C. Kerrigan, Fremont, Neb.; Mrs. Edward M. Stiles, Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. Charles A. Eglin, Lombard, Ill., and 13 grandchildren.
in same lot: Infant VanLiew, Frances B.VanLiew, Elizabeth R.VanLiew, Dennis J.VanLiew, John D.VanLiew, Elizabeth Kuhl VanLiew
Memorial ID # 30583852
Contributor: Jane (47569466)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
The Des Moines Register
Nov. 10, 1962
Obituary
Frances Isabel Bray Van Liew
Mrs. Frances B. Van Liew, 69, a founder of the Des Moines Catholic Mother's Club and widow of the late Dennis J. Van Liew, pioneer Des Moines banker, died of pneumonia Friday in Bishop Drumm Home for the Aged. She had been ill several months with Parkinson's disease.
Born in Grinnell, she was graduated from Grinnell College and taught English and Latin at old West High School here before her marriage in 1921. Mr. Van Liew, vice-president of Capital City State Bank, died in 1944.
Van Liew was past president of the Des Moines Bankers Wives Club, and a member of the American Association of University Women, Catholic Daughters, Catholic Women's League, Des Moines Women's Club and St. Augustin's Catholic Church.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in St. Augustin's Catholic Church. The rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Monday in Dunn's Funeral Home.
Surviving are a son, Dennis J., Des Moines; two daughters, Mrs. John F. McLaughlin, Jr., St. Louis, Mo., and Mrs. Edwin S. Williams, El Paso, Tex; two brothers, Thomas J. Bray, Oskaloosa, and Lyle W. Bray, Sacramento, Cal; three sisters, Mrs. John C. Kerrigan, Fremont, Neb.; Mrs. Edward M. Stiles, Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. Charles A. Eglin, Lombard, Ill., and 13 grandchildren.
in same lot: Infant VanLiew, Frances B.VanLiew, Elizabeth R.VanLiew, Dennis J.VanLiew, John D.VanLiew, Elizabeth Kuhl VanLiew
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Advertisement