Hometown: Maquoketa, Iowa - February 26, 2016

Elizabeth Frett, 100, of Maquoketa passed away on Friday, February 26, 2016 at Maquoketa Care Center. Her Funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 with a visitation one hour before at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Maquoketa. A visitation will be held from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Tuesdays at Lahey Funeral Home in Maquoketa where a Rosary will be recited at 4:00 p.m. Burial will be at St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery in Sugar Creek, Iowa. Elizabeth was born on November 19, 1915 in Clinton County to Peter and Catherine (Banowetz) Reuter. She attended Sugar Creek School. On October 12, 1937 she was united in marriage to Bernard Frett at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Sugar Creek. She was a homemaker and in her earlier years was a housekeeper. She loved to spend time tending to her large garden.

She is a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Maquoketa, the Catholic Daughters of the Americas Court St. Raphael 1156 and belonged to the Bernadette Circle and was an active member for many years with the Quilting Circle at the Senior Center in Maquoketa.

Those left to cherish her memories are her ten children; Mary Catherine Hintz of Maquoketa. Raphael (Joan) Frett of Preston, , Alfred (June) Frett of Russelville, Arkansas, Bernie (Phyllis) Frett of Preston, Betty Scheckel of Maquoketa, Linda (Dale) Roling of Preston, Vickie Brewster of Davenport, Michael (Shirley) Frett of Murphy, North Carolina, Larry (Diane) Frett of Maquoketa, , Monica (Allan) Ruggeberg of DeWitt, 39 grandchildren, 49 great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren, four sisters; Mary Kilburg of Maquoketa, Theresa Hansen of DeWitt, Catherine (Earl) Kilburg of Preston, Joan (Gene) Gerardy of Bellevue and three brothers; Vern (Naomi) Reuter of Clinton, Julius Reuter of Preston and Richard Reuter of Calamus.

Elizabeth is preceded in death by her parents, husband, two sisters Laurentia Roling, Dorothy Roling two brothers; Ben and Mike Reuter and two siblings as infants Wilferd and Bertha.