Frech, Iva F. (Matteson) 1909-2005

FRECH, MATTESON, MCINTOSH

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Date: 6/26/2005 at 20:34:03

Iva F. Frech, 95, of 500 First Street N. died Friday, April 8, 2005, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.

Funeral services will be Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at First Lutheran Church in Newton with the Rev. Howard Vrankin officiating. Burial will be at Newton Union Cemetery. Pence-Reese Funeral Home in Newton is handling arrangements.

Visitation will be held after 3 p.m. today at the funeral home, where the family will greet friends from 6 to 7:30 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorials will be accepted in her name, to First Lutheran Church or Park Centre Good Samaritan Fund.

The daughter of Oren Eugene and Catherine (McIntosh) Matteson, she was born April 24, 1909, in Browns Valley, Minn. She was a graduate of West High School in Des Moines in 1927. She also attended college. On Aug. 12, 1933, she married Dr. Raymond Fischer Frech at St. John's Lutheran Church in Des Moines. She was a homemaker and also worked at Younker's Brothers Office and Town Mutual Insurance Company for a few years.

Mrs. Frech was a member of First Lutheran Church, the church council, Newton Country Club, HS chapter of P.E.O., American Cancer Board, Cub Scout den mother, head of Mother's March of Dimes in Newton, charter member of Skiff Memorial Hospital Auxiliary and a member of Theta Chi Sorority. She enjoyed golf, tennis and traveling.

Survivors include two sons and daughters-in-law, Richard and Jana Frech of Ft. Worth, Texas, and Raymond G. and Ellen Frech of Palatine, Ill.; a daughter, Beverly Mountsier of Newton; eight grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; a sister-in-law, Lucille; and many nieces and nephews.

Preceding her in death were her parents; husband; a daughter-in-law, Patricia Frech; a brother-in-law, Paul Coultrap; five sisters; and three brothers.

Newton Daily News, Monday, April 11, 2005