Richard Dean Frantz 1933-2008
FRANTZ, JOHNSON, MCCULLOM
Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/19/2008 at 22:50:10
Sioux City Journal
25 February 2008Richard "Dick" Dean Frantz
WHITING, Iowa -- Richard "Dick" Dean Frantz, 74, of Whiting died Friday, Feb. 22, 2008, at Pleasant View Care Center after suffering from a stroke.Services will be 10 a.m. Wednesday at Slininger-Rossow Funeral Home in Jefferson, Iowa.
Visitation with the family present will be 9 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
A memorial service will be held 1 p.m. Tuesday at Pleasant View Care Center in Whiting.
A son of Dwight Dean and Vava (Johnson) Frantz, Dick was born on Nov. 25, 1933, in Grand Junction on the farm. A 1951 graduate of Grand Junction High School, he attended Iowa State University. With strong ties to the farming industry, Dick left the farm and spent his adult life in fertilizer, feed and seed sales and management for various grain elevators. He retired in 1990 and relocated in Texas. Dick returned to Iowa in 1996 and suffering from a debilitating illness, made Pleasant View Care Center his home in 2004.
Dick married Lita McCullom on Feb. 20, 1955, and together they raised three daughters, Cindy Brock, who resides in Midland, Texas, with husband, Brad and children, Zoe and Connor; Barb Heithoff, who resides in Yankton, S.D., with husband, Roger and children, Kendra and Drew; and Kelle Sullivan, who resides in Seguin, Texas, with husband, Frank and children, Skylar and Steele.
In his younger years, his passion was playing softball, bowling, fishing and playing cards.
Survivors include his three daughters; six grandchildren; his mother, Vava (Johnson) Frantz of Jefferson, Iowa; a brother, Robert Frantz and wife, Kathryn of Cheyenne, Wyo.; three sisters, Karen Kersey of Carroll{M3, Iowa, Autumn (Kathy) Wagner and husband, George of Boone, Iowa, and Felicia Davis and husband, Hank of Churdan;{M3 along with numerous cousins, nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father, Dwight David Frantz.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to Pleasant View Care Center, Sunshine Unit, Whiting, IA.
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