Jo Fritz

1936 - 2022

Jo Fritz

Jo Fritz, 85, a Saddle Brooke, Arizona, resident since 2003 died July 18, 2022. She was a retired multidimensional healer, a graduate of the Charles Tebbetts School of Hypnotherapy and the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. Jo had great interest in creating positive change in the world and she was generous in her support of many causes.
She was self-employed and had an active practice helping people for over 20 years.
Jo was born on July 26, 1936 in La Jolla, California, along with her twin sister Sara (deceased). She was proud to be a sixth generation Californian. Her family moved to Humboldt County, California, when she was young, settling in Redway.
She graduated from South Fork High School and she and her sister worked in Goldie's Dress Shop where Goldie acted as a second mother to the girls. Later living in the Myrtletown area of Eureka raising a family with husband Glenn Wallace, she and her sister's family would vacation at their cabin at Trinity Lake where she enjoyed spending time with her children, niece Stephanie, and nephew Scott.
She loved to play and watch a spirited game of tennis. She was a member of the American Contract Bridge League. Jo was a gifted player, and fierce competitor, achieving the rank of Diamond Life Master. It was at a bridge tournament she met the love of her life and best friend Doug Fritz. They married at the Isis Oasis in 1987 and together they travelled and made homes in Pacific Grove, California, New York City, Seattle, Washington, and SaddleBrooke. She is remembered in the small and memorable moments she created with Doug, her children, grand-children, great grandchildren, and her well-loved and doted upon pets which include blasting Neil Diamond while getting housework done, offering clever stories and poignant antidotes as guidance for navigating life, beating them at cards, again, smiling and watching kids and pets in the pool, and sharing a laugh together over episodes of Big Bang Theory.
She is survived by her husband Doug of Saddle Brooke, her daughter Mollie Holmgren of Hydesville, California, her son Jerry Wallace and wife Michele of North Plains, Oregon, her son Christopher Wallace of West Sacramento, California, step-son Jonathan Fritz and wife Georgia of Grand Rapids, Michigan, grandchildren Cameron Holmgren, Cassie Holmgren, Ellis Wallace, Milly Wallace, Hazel Fritz and Heather Fritz and great-grandchildren Luke Holmgren, Jack Holmgren, Tayla Fontaine, Lania Fontaine, and Rykin Fontaine. Her family will celebrate her life and scatter her ashes at time to be determined at Shelter Cove, California, a favorite place of her childhood.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.