Virginia Owen (nee Geitner)

May 4, 1929 - June 23, 2019

Virginia M. Owen passed away Sunday, June 23, 2019 at the Joliet Area
Community Hospice Home after a sudden illness. She was 90 years old.

 
Virginia, known as Jean or Gina by family and friends, was born May 4,
1929 on a farm in Door County, Wisconsin to Frank and Mary (Pichette)
Geitner. She had 3 sisters and 2 brothers, Everett Geitner, Helen Schmidt,
Lucille Temby, Rose May and Clarence Geitner. She married Edward M.
Owen from Tennessee on April 7, 1951. She and Ed raised seven children
and were small business owners. They purchased Friar’s Fish, a fish and
chips franchise restaurant in Chicago Heights, Illinois and ran it with their
children for many years. After their children were grown, they moved to
Columbia, Tennessee and opened the Chicago Sandwich Shoppe. After
retiring, they returned to the Chicago area and became active in their
Church and homeowner communities. An avid Chicago Bears and
Chicago Cubs fan, she enjoyed playing cards and time spent with family
and friends.

 
Virginia was a longstanding member and frequent chapter president of
Beta Sigma Phi, a worldwide women’s sorority. She was most recently a
member of St. Stephen’s Catholic Church in Tinley Park and a long-time
member of St. Lawrence O’Toole parish in Matteson. She will be
remembered for her warm smile, frequent laugh, thoughtfulness, and
willingness to help others. She was a loving wife, mother and
grandmother, sister, aunt and friend.

 
Virginia is survived by her husband, her daughters Deborah L. Owen,
Pamela O. Lee, Tarie M. Mohan, and Patricia O. Buehler, her sons Steven
P. Owen and David M. Owen, and fourteen grandchildren. Now she sits
with God, her daughter Judith A. Owen, her sisters and brothers, and her
parents.
Services were private. In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the
National Council of the U.S. Society of St. Vincent de Paul
https://www.svdpusa.org/ or the Alzheimer’s Association
https://www.alz.org/.