MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Mary Lucille Fritzen, 80, of Bisbee, Ariz., died Thursday, Feb. 28, 2002, at Sierra Vista Regional Health Center in Sierra Vista, Ariz., following a brief illness.
She was born Oct. 10, 1921, at Lutesville, Mo., daughter of the Rev. Charles E. and Mildred G. Corbin. She and Richard W. Schroeder were married April 1, 1945, at Lutesville. He died Oct. 11, 1962. She later married Henry Fritzen in 1975, who died in 2000.
Survivors include five sons, Dr. Charles Ireland of Jackson, Mo., Gregory, Philip and Robert Schroeder of Bisbee, Stephen Schroeder of St. Louis; a stepson, Richard Schroeder of St. Louis; 16 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by six brothers and a sister.
There was no service.
Jensen's Sierra Vista Mortuary was in charge of arrangements.
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