Ella Beelow

Ella Beelow

Ella Beelow Obituary

Published by Northwest Herald on Aug. 9, 2005.

Ella Beelow

CRYSTAL LAKE - Ella Beelow, 88, of Crystal Lake, died Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005, at Crystal Pines in Crystal Lake.

She was born April 11, 1917, in Chicago.

She married Albert Beelow and was a homemaker.

Survivors include two sons, Albert (Mary) Beelow and Donald (Barb) Beelow; a daughter, Janice (Richard) Jung; 10 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; two sisters, Ann Whiteside and Laura Lombardo; and a brother, Thomas DeFranco.

She was preceded in death by her husband and a brother, Charles DeFranco.

The visitation will be from 4 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 10, at Windridge Funeral Home, 104 High Road, Cary. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 11, at the funeral home. Interment will be in Windridge Memorial Park.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of Northeastern Illinois.

For information, call the funeral home at (847) 639-2191.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

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