FRANCES J. RYAN

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Frances J. Ryan - 89, of Fort Dodge, died Thursday, August 7, 2008 at the Marian Home.

Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Monday, August 11th in the chapel of Laufersweiler-Sievers Funeral Home and 10:30 a.m. at Sacred Heart Church with Rev. Sunny Dominic officiating at the Mass of Christian Burial. Burial will be in Corpus Christi Cemetery. Visitation will be after 4:00 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home, where there will be a Catholic Daughters of the Americas and Rosary Society Rosary at 4:30 p.m. and a vigil at 7:00 p.m.

Surviving is her son, Edward J. Ryan and his wife Jane of Windsor, CO; daughters, Mary Ellen Burr and her husband Fred of Des Moines, Michelle Ryan and her husband David Buchanan of Suva, Fiji; grandchildren, Ryan, Michael, Katie and Abby; sisters, Jean Dobmeier and Collette Coughlon, both of Fort Dodge, Modesta Gross of Richmond, VA; sister-in-law, Marian Fowler of Clare. Fran was preceded in death by her parents Herbert and Mae (Connors) Fowler; her husband Edward on January 24, 1984; her brother, Clement; and a sister, Mary Charlene.

Frances Fowler was born February 15, 1919 in Manson, Iowa. She graduated from Barnum High School and then continued her education at St Joseph's Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Fort Dodge, graduating in 1941. Fran was employed at the former Mercy Hospital and also at the Kersten Clinic. In 1954, she was united in marriage to Edward J. Ryan at St Joseph's Catholic Church in Duncombe, and they established their home on the family farm.

She was a member of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas and the Rosary Society, Holy Trinity Parish Sacred Heart site and the Marian Home Auxiliary.

Fran loved being a nurse, playing bridge, cooking and baking for family and friends.

Memorials may be left to the Marian Home or Trinity Hospice.