Lillian F. Godecker
Of Arlington Heights and Sarasota, FL from 1982-2004

Visitation for Lillian F. Godecker will be from 9:00 AM until the time of Funeral Service at 11:00 AM, Saturday, March 31, 2007 at the Glueckert Funeral Home, Ltd., 1520 N. Arlington Heights Rd. (four blocks south of Palatine Rd.), Arlington Heights. Eastern Star services will be held at 10:00 AM. Interment private.

Lillian was born on September 19, 1911 in Chicago to Donald and Frances Massett. She died Friday, March 23, 2007 at the DuPage Convalescent Center in Wheaton.

Mrs. Godecker lived in San Francisco, CA and Melborne, FL as a young girl. She joined the Order of the Eastern Star in 1935 and was the oldest living member of Mayflower Chapter No. 555 of the Order of the Eastern Star, Wauconda. She was a former member and Worthy Matron of Aloha Chapter of the Eastern Star, Chicago. She was the Grand Representative of Delaware in 1950 for the State of Illinois. Lillian was a Grand Lecturer Emeritus of the State of Illinois and Grand Esther of the State of Illinois in 1958.

Lillian is survived by her daughters, Frances E. (Edward) Stewart and Nancy Johnson-Lenz (Norman Lenz); grandchildren, Nancy Schumann-Radaha, Edward (Alyson), III, Charles (Georgene) and James (Henny) Stewart , Debra (William) Ryder, and Rebecca Johnson, James (Rae) Johnson; great-grandchildren, Katherine, Christian, Andrew and Sean Schumann, Andrea, Samantha, Jessica, Patrick, Christopher and David Stewart, William, III, Crystal, Anthony and Joseph Ryder, and Sarah, Adam and Ryan Johnson; great-great grandchildren, Ava and Nathan Ryder; her brother, Col. Joseph J. Massett, USAF Ret.; and several nieces and nephews.

She is preceded in death by her husbands, Everett Elliott Krafft, Leonard Clevenger and Jeff Godecker; her parents; and her sister, Geraldine Weiberlis.