Josephine Fasone Rietjens
APRIL 22, 1933 – DECEMBER 31, 2024
Josephine Fasone Rietjens, 91, of Oak Brook, Illinois, passed at home on December 31, 2024.
Josephine was born in Chicago to Florence and James Fasone in 1933. Josephine graduated from Kelly High School. Through the club at All Saints Church, she met the love of her life Robert Rietjens, and they married in 1952.
Together, Josephine and Robert created a beautiful family; 5 children, 12 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. With Sunday dinners, holidays, birthdays, graduations, anniversary parties, music, dancing, and beach vacations, their boisterous, fun family celebrates life together.
Our beautiful wife, mother, grandmother, Josephine Rietjens, will be remembered and loved forever. We hope she felt how loved she is by so many. We miss her warmth and humor, her sage and hilarious advice, her generosity and common sense. Each of us have favorite foods and recipes we learned from her. Every time we cook Sunday sauce or bake an apple pie or pecan crescents, we will remember how she showed her love and talent in the kitchen. She knew how to work hard and take care of us, and she knew how to relax and enjoy life. She and Robert enjoyed retirement with their many life-long friends, traveling and hosting game nights.
Josephine is survived by her husband of 72 years, Robert Rietjens, and children, Robin (Reid) Rietjens Hamre, Cheryl Rietjens, Bill (Cheryl) Rietjens, (Steve) Sedall, and Mary (Eric) Jurasas, twelve grandchildren: Lori (Josh) Hamre-Jenkins, Aaron Heerdt, Rex (Heather) Hamre, Cara (Stef)Egbert, Robert (Jessica) Rietjens, Ashley (Tom) Sipple, Lauren Sedall, William Rietjens, Christina Sedall, Ricky Rietjens, Roseanna Jurasas and Josephine Jurasas, and their thirteen great-grandchildren; Augustus, Lila, Vince, Hank, Luke, Nora, Stella, Brody, Quinn, Eden, Faie, Jack and Iris. She was preceded in death by her beloved daughter, April Sedall.
Funeral Mass Monday, January 6, 2025, 9:30 am at the Ascension of Our Lord Church in Oak Brook Terrace, IL.
Arrangements entrusted to Cappetta’s West Suburban Funeral Home, Westmont & Downers Grove. Info 630-852-8000 or westsuburbanfh.com