Mary Frutiger

Mary L. Frutiger, 85, of Coal Valley, Illinois, died Friday, August 22, 2014, at Genesis Medical Center, Illini Campus, Silvis, Illinois.

Services are 10 a.m. Friday, August 29, 2014, in the Celebration of Life Chapel at Trimble Funeral Home, Coal Valley, with The Reverend Jim DeBisschop officiating. Burial is in Coal Valley Cemetery. Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

The former Mary Louise Rakestraw was born February 1, 1929, in Canton, Illinois, to Bert and Ada Fillingham Rakestraw. She graduated from Annawan High School, and married Richard Leonard Frutiger on September 10, 1949, in Moline, Illinois. She was head accountant for overseas sales for John Deere Insurance, retiring in 1984. She was a member of St. Maria Goretti Catholic Church, Coal Valley, and was an artist and a tennis player and was good at both.

Mary is survived by her husband of 65 yerars, Richard; three children, Richard Frutiger of Moline, Illinois, Vicki Bellson of Ashland City, Tennessee, and Michael "Tony" Frutiger and his wife Lynnette of Orion, Illinois; a daughter-in-law, Jeanine Paine of Venice Beach, California; 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, a son, Bruce Paine, and a brother, Robert Rakestraw.

Mary's family invites friends to share stories and condolences and light a free candle in her memory at www.TrimbleFuneralHomes.com.