DRISH, Genevieve Mary 1907 - 2015

DRISH, REDLINGER, FRITZ, CRAWFORD, WELDING, SHELANGOSKI, RABEL, LAWSON

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 4/2/2015 at 14:36:22

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Monday, March 23, 2015
Page 8

Genevieve DRISH

Genevieve DRISH, 107, of Fairfield and formerly of the Brighton community, died today, Monday, March 23, 2015, at Jefferson County Health Center in Fairfield.

Funeral arrangements are pending at Raymond Funeral Home in Fairfield.

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"The Fairfield Ledger"
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Page 8

Genevieve Mary DRISH

Genevieve Mary DRISH, 107, of Fairfield and formerly of the Brighton community, died Monday, March 23, 2015, at Jefferson County Health Center in Fairfield.

The funeral is planned for 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in East Pleasant Plain, with the Rev. Robert Striegel officiating. Interment will be in the Polishville Cemetery (note: also known as St. Mary's Cemetery) south of Pleasant Plain.

Visitation will be 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday at Raymond Funeral Home in Fairfield. The family will receive friends from 5:30-7 p.m. Friday at St. Joseph Church in East Pleasant Plain, where a prayer service will begin at 7 p.m.

Memorials can be made to St. Joseph Church, St. Joseph Cemetery or the Polishville Cemetery Association. Online condolences can be made at www.raymondfuneralhomes.com.

Mrs. DRISH was born Sept. 17, 1907, in rural Brighton, the daughter of Peter V. and Anna REDLINGER FRITZ. She married Frank L. DRISH May 5, 1930, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in East Pleasant Plain. He died July 10, 1984.

A lifetime resident of the Brighton area, she was a homemaker and had worked as a telephone operator and at Universal Producing Company in Fairfield.

Mrs. DRISH was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church in East Pleasant Plain and the Alter & Rosary Society. She was active in the Polishville Association. She danced until she was 90 and drove her car until she was 100.

She loved dancing, cards, bingo and family events, fishing, walking with her dog and checking the cattle fences.

Survivors include: one son, Leonard Frank DRISH and wife Mary Ann of Brighton; two daughters Mary Ann CRAWFORD and husband Delbert of West Burlington and Alma Dean WELDING and husband George of Fort Madison; 16 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; and 13 great-great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by: her parents; and two infant daughters; one granddaughter; two brothers, Clarence and Maynard FRITZ; and one sister, Bertille SHELANGOSKI.

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"The Fairfield Ledger"
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Front Page

Oldest person in Jefferson County dies

By Vicki Tillis
Ledger lifestyles editor

Jefferson County's oldest-know (sic) resident, 107-year-old Genevieve DRISH, of Fairfield, died Monday, March 23, 2015, at Jefferson County Health Center.

In the past, the Iowa Department of Elder Affairs has been able to supply the name of the new oldest-known person in the county, but the department hasn't updated the list for at least two years. The department is working on the list, but it isn't a project "on the front burner."

DRISH became the county's oldest known resident when 104-year-old Wilma Aletha RABEL LAWSON of Fairfield died Feb. 6, 2012, at SunnyBrook Living Care Center.

DRISH was born Sept. 17, 1907, in rural Brighton and spent most of her life on a farm in the Polishville community, 12 miles northeast of Fairfield, where she grew up and later lived with her husband, Frank, and their three children, Leonard, Mary Ann and Alma Dean.

After her husband died in 1984, she stayed on the farm by herself until moving to the Wagon Wheel Apartments in Fairfield in 2001. She loved living in the country, but, in an interview with The Ledger in 2012, she said she felt that she needed to be around more people, and credited that companionship as a contributing factor to her long life.

DRISH lived independently in her own apartment for more than a dozen years. Her eyesight and hearing "were not what they used to be," but she still walked across Court Street to eat the weekday congregate meals, play bingo and socialize with friends at the Fairfield Senior Citizen Center.

Raymond Funeral Home in Fairfield is assisting the family with funeral arrangements. The funeral is planned for 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in East Pleasant Plain, and interment will be in the Polishville Cemetery south of Pleasant Plain. The complete obituary was published Tuesday in The Ledger.

Information about the centenarian registry is available by calling the Iowa Department of Elder Affairs in Des Moines at 515-725-3333.

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