Adele Margaret Froke

Adele M. Froke, age 78, the widow of Marlo Froke, died peacefully with family at her side in the Parkview Care Center at Bryant on Monday afternoon, March 17, 2014. Visitation will be held on Wednesday, March 19, 2014 from 5-7pm at the United Presbyterian Church at Willow Lake and will continue on Thursday morning after 9AM at the Church. Funeral services will be held on Thursday March 20, 2014 at 10:30AM in the United Presbyterian Church at Willow Lake with The Reverend Dr. Lois Aroian officiating. The organist will be JoLayne Symens with Char and Duane Peterson providing special music. Dorothy Fuller will be the accompanist. The active casketbearers will be her grandchildren, Travis, Troy, Todd, Randy and Ronnie Froke, Dan Kannegieter and Wes Johnson. Serving as honorary casketbearers will be her great-grandchildren, Charlie, Cole, Wyatt, Shelby, Terrance, Madelynn, James, Dominic, Damon, and Dylan. Burial will be in the Collins Cemetery at Willow Lake. She was born Adele Margaret Heitland on January 1, 1936 on the family farmstead near Willow Lake, the daughter of Richard Jr. and Alene A. (Haug) Heitland. She attended school at Willow Lake graduating from Willow Lake High School in 1954. On September 11, 1955 she was united in marriage to Marlo LeRoy Froke at the Presbyterian Church in Willow Lake. The couple lived and farmed north of Willow Lake until moving into town in 1978 into a home Marlo had built with Wayne Tellinghuisen. Over the years Adele has worked for Maxi Switch at Erwin, the Willow Lake Café, Parkview Care Center at Bryant and owned and operated Adele's Ceramics. In addition to her work out in the communities, she loved helping on the farm, being a farmwife, raising chickens and loving chickens all over the farm. Second to none though was her love of being a mother, which was first and foremost in her life. She was a member of the United Presbyterian Church at Willow Lake where she had served as a Visiting Deacon, Sunday School Teacher, and was active in the Ladies Aid. Adele was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary in Willow Lake. In her spare time she enjoyed ceramics, flowers and gardening, camping and traveling, embroidery, being a fan of the Minnesota Twins and collecting Chicken décor- literally hundreds of pieces of chicken décor! Spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren though was her fondest moments spent in free time. Preceding her in death were her parents, husband Marlo on May 17, 2013, brothers-in-law: Curtis Froke, Bill Grimm, Harold Froke, Dick Glanzer, Melford Froke and Wayne Benson. Survivors include her sons, Nordean (Val) Froke, Nolan (Deb) Froke, and Norlan (Marcie) Froke all of Willow Lake, 7 grandchildren, Travis (Jessica), Troy (Emily), Todd (Sandi), Jenica (Wes), Jena Lee (Dan), Randy (Sara), and Ronnie; 10 great-grandchildren, Charlie, Cole, Wyatt, Shelby, Terrance, Madelynn, James, Dominic, Damon, and Dylan, 5 step-grandchildren and 16 step-great-grandchild. Adele also leaves sisters-in-law, Thelma Froke of Brandon, Betty Grimm of Willow Lake, Karleen Froke of Madison, Cleo Glanzer of Miller, Phyllis Froke and Wanda Benson, both of Watertown. Furness Funeral Home of Clark is serving the family where there is an on-line registry at www.furnessfuneralhome.com