Chloe Schmalz

Chloe Ann Schmalz

(nee Evans)

Age 61 of Wilmington, passed away suddenly on Friday March 21, 2008 at Provena St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet.

Born July 9, 1946 in Noblesville, IN, Chloe was a daughter of the late Charles and Cleo Williams-Evans. She was a graduate of Wilmington High School with the Class of 1964 and attended Joliet Junior College and the Chicago School of Travel. Chloe was employed for numerous years with Joliet Travel and Tours and Travel Hut of Joliet, and was most recently worked for Target in Shorewood. She greatly enjoyed traveling with her daughter and was an advocate of animal rights and the Anti-Cruelty Society.

Survivors include her loving daughter Stacie Schmalz and nephew Steve Evans, both of Wilmington; one aunt Frances Cothen of San Francisco, CA; one uncle Harry Evans of South Carolina and numerous cousins and friends, especially Jamie Lawson and Kathy Coote.

Chloe was preceded in death by her parents, one brother Larry Evans and one sister Pat (the late John Paul) Butcher.

Visitation will be held on Wednesday March 26, 2008 from 3:00PM until time of funeral service 7:00PM at Reeves Funeral Home, 219 North Joliet Street (two blocks North of Illinois Route 53 / Baltimore Street) in Wilmington. Rev. David Lagos-Fonseca and Rev. Shirley Pulgar-Hughes from the First United Methodist Church in Wilmington will officiate.

Burial will follow on Thursday March 27th at 1:00PM (EST) in Crownland Cemetery in Noblesville, Indiana.

Friends may sign the online guest book by logging onto: www.ReevesFuneral.com

Preferred memorials in lieu of flowers may be made as gifts in Chloe's memory to The American Diabetes Association or the Anti-Cruelty Society of Illinois.

Funeral services and arrangements have been made under the direction of Reeves Funeral Home in Wilmington, (815/476-7621)