Frances Lelchook 1915-2010

LELCHOOK, ROSENBAUM RASKIN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 3/4/2011 at 20:55:09

Sioux City Journal
30 November 2010

SIOUX CITY -- Frances Lelchook, 95, of Sioux City died Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010, at Northern Hills Retirement Community.

Services were held Nov. 29 at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel, where Frank Baron officiated. Burial was in Independent Farane Cemetery. Condolences may be sent online to www.meyerbroschapels.com.

Frances was born March 15, 1915, in Sioux City, the daughter of Meyer and Henna (Rosenbaum) Raskin. She grew up in Sioux City and graduated from Central High School in 1933. She then graduated from a cosmetology school in Detroit, Mich.

She married Benjamin Lelchook in 1937, in Sioux City. He died June 8, 2008, in Sioux City. Benjamin and Frances owned Ben's Thrifty IGA in Sioux City for many years.

She had been a longtime member of Shaare Zion Synagogue and was currently a member of Congregation Beth Shalom. She was one of the first residents of Northern Hills and received a State of Iowa award for living the longest of any Iowan in an assisted living facility. The family would like to thank her nurse, Cindy, and all the staff at Northern Hills and Hospice of Siouxland for the wonderful care given to Frances.

Survivors include two daughters, Tzipora Weinmann and her husband, Mendel of Israel, and Doris Quinn and her husband, Gregory of Overland Park, Kan.; eight grandchildren, Meir Weinmann, Yisrael Weinmann, Malka Milman, Rivka Moskowitz, Rebecca Macek, Nathaniel Quinn, and Elizabeth Mazer; 46 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Benjamin; and seven brothers and sisters.

Memorials may be made in her name to Hospice of Siouxland.