Constance (Severns) Monroe (2008)

MONROE, SEVERNS, MCCLEARY, LECOCQ LOSZACH, ADDY

Posted By: Shirley Keating (email)
Date: 4/24/2008 at 20:51:34

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
April 23, 2008

CONSTANCE MONROE, ILLINOIS

Constance Monroe, 85, of Chicago Ridge, Ill., died April 20, 2008, at Lexington Nursing Home in Chicago Ridge.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, April 24, at McCalley-Collins Funeral Home in Winterset. Family will receive friends from 9 a.m. until service time on Thursday. Burial will be at the U.B. Jefferson Cemetery in Madison County. Memorials may be directed to her family.

Constance Monroe was born Dec. 8, 1922, in Madison County to John and Lucy (McCleary) Severns. On Dec. 8, 1943, she was united in marriage to Al “LeRoy” Monroe in Lineville, Mo. Constance grew up in Madison County but lived in several locations before moving to Chicago in 1983. She worked in numerous jobs as a laborer.

She was preceded in death by her husband; one son, Leroy William Monroe; a sister, Maxine Lecocq; and a grandchild, Christopher Monroe.

She is survived by three daughters, Colleen Monroe and Cindy Lee Loszach, both of Chicago, Ill., and Cathleen Monroe of Milwaukee, Wis.; a sister, Vernal Addy of Winterset; and six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.