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Elsie Frohlich Friesz
Birth: 23 Mar 1930 Morton County, North Dakota, USA
Death: 26 Mar 2016 (aged 86) Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota, USA
Burial: Mandan Union Cemetery, Mandan, Morton County, North Dakota, USA
Memorial #: 160130089
Bio: Obituary Bismarck Tribune (March 26, 2016)Elsie Friesz, 86, Mandan, died March 26, 2016, at Sanford Health, Bismarck. Mass of Christian burial will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, at St. Joseph?s Catholic Church, Mandan, with the Rev. Shane Campbell as celebrant. Burial will be at Mandan Union Cemetery after the church service.Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. today at St. Joseph?s Catholic Church, with a rosary/parish vigil at 7 p.m. Visitation will continue at the church one hour prior to the service on Tuesday.Elsie Frohlich was born to Peter and Elizabeth (Markel) Frohlich, in Crown Butte, on March 23, 1930. Elsie loved life on the farm, where she and her siblings worked hard and had childhood fun that would be shared years later as stories retold in German at the Frohlich family ?progressive dinner? parties held every year.Elsie moved to Mandan and worked at the Mandan Ben Franklin store and later in the camera department at Hoskins-Meyer Floral in Bismarck, where she developed a love of photography. For years, Elsie documented Friesz and Frohlich family activities, vacations and special events by taking hundreds of photos on Kodachrome slides that entertained so many at family gatherings that often ended with an Elsie ?slide show.?Elsie married Edward Friesz, who was the love of her life, on Sept. 30, 1953. Elsie dedicated her life to her family, staying at home to raise her and Ed?s six children. Elsie entertained her children with stories, songs and dancing while preparing meals and baking breads, cookies and other desserts for meals that were an important gathering time for her family.Elsie and Ed loved taking annual family vacations and every August, included a new destination as the family drove to visit relatives and sightsee in states all across the country. When Ed and Elsie retired, they continued to enjoy traveling together taking bus tours and visiting children and grandchildren living in other states.Elsie was a woman of deep faith and she was devoted to her Catholic tradition. She loved attending daily Mass at St. Joseph?s Catholic Church, where she was a parishioner and member of the St. Joseph?s Circle for over 60 years. She looked forward to her daily walk to church, no matter the season or weather.Elsie was an avid gardener. She loved her indoor and outdoor plants and flowers, gathering rain water to care for them and bringing back to life those plants others thought were beyond hope. Elsie donated hundreds of plants to AID Inc. in Mandan, where she also volunteered every week for over 20 years. Through those plants there is a small piece of Elsie blooming in homes all across the area.Elsie was visually impaired due to a childhood illness, and her loss of vision progressed throughout her life. Her loss of vision did not deter her from doing and accomplishing the things she was passionate about. One passion Elsie had was reading, and thanks to talking books provided by the Library of Congress and the North Dakota State Library, Elsie read thousands of books all of which she recorded in a journal. When funding for the North Dakota State Library and its services were being threatened with cuts, Elsie successfully testified before state legislative committees to preserve this important service to the blind. Elsie also loved the people she met at meetings and conferences of the North Dakota Association of the Blind and the annual summer camp program she attended at Camp Grassick.Elsie always dreamed of going to high school and she did for a few short months, before returning to the farm to help care for her mother. But Elsie never stopped dreaming about graduating from high school and in 1995, at the age of 65, Elsie passed the GED and received her high school diploma. Elsie never stopped learning, staying up on current events by regularly listening to the radio and TV news and studying historical events and presidents through the books and magazines that she read.The Friesz family would like to thank all the ?Good Samaritans? who helped Elsie over the years. While she was visually impaired, Elsie never let her vision stop her from doing the things she loved and she loved walking. She carefully tracked all of her steps to and from the places she needed to go, but at times she got lost or her path was interrupted with construction. There are so many people that stopped to help guide Elsie back on her path. She trusted the good nature in people and no one ever let her down.Elsie will be deeply missed by her children: three daughters, Delphine Marshall, Mandan, Sharon Johnson, Bismarck, and Annette (Leon) Kary, Mandan, and three sons, Kennard, Mandan, Gerard (Mary Ellen), Seattle, Wash., and Maynard (Linda), Arlington, Va.; 11 grandchildren, Trever (Angie) Marshall, Anton (Jamie) Marshall, Jakob Marshall, Alec Johnson and his fiancee, Tess, Brett Johnson, Maria (Rob) Eide, Elizabeth (Tyler) Ferderer, Rachael Kary, Ryan Friesz, Adam Friesz and Edward ?Teddy? Friesz; six great-grandchildren, Ella Rose, Oliver and Eliot Marshall, Isabel and Franklin Marshall, Emaline Elsie Eide, and baby Ferderer on the way; two sisters, Bernadine (Don) Prouty, Bismarck, and Lucy (Anton) Wangler, Fargo; a brother, Tom Frohlich, Mandan; and a sister-in-law, Donna Frohlich, Bismarck.Elsie was preceded in death by her husband who died June 14, 2005; her parents; one son-in-law, John Marshall; one sister, Vera Frohlich; two brothers, Joseph (Frances) Frohlich and Donald Frohlich; and a sister-in-law, Jeanette Frohlich. (Weigel Funeral Home, Mandan)
Family Members
Parents
Peter F Frohlich 1897-1982
Elizabeth Markel Frohlich 1901-1981
Spouse
Edward N Friesz 1924-2005
Siblings
Thomas Frohlich 1925-2019
Donald R Frohlich 1933-1997
Lucy Ann Frohlich Wangler 1936-2017
Vera Ann Frohlich 1941-2003
Created by: Nancy at KNDKritters (46929515)
Added: 28 Mar 2016
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/160130089
Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 08 May 2019), memorial page for Elsie Frohlich Friesz (23 Mar 1930?26 Mar 2016), Find A Grave Memorial no. 160130089, citing Mandan Union Cemetery, Mandan, Morton County, North Dakota, USA ; Maintained by Nancy at KNDKritters (contributor 46929515) .
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1930 - 2016 (86 years)