Charlotte Darlene DeRubeis Obituary (1937

Charlotte Darlene DeRubeis, 82, of Toluca, passed away Sunday November 24, 2019, 11:30 pm at her home in Toluca. Visitation will be Friday November 29, 2019 from 9:00 am to 10:45 am at Calvert-Johnson & Froelich Memorial Home, Toluca. A Memorial Mass will be held at 11:00am at St. Ann's Catholic Church, Toluca, with the Franciscan Friars officiating. Inurnment will follow at St. Ann's Cemetery, Toluca. Memorials may be made to the Toluca Ambulance Service. Charlotte was born September 23, 1937 in Streator, IL to Wayne and Edna (Jaegle) Fife and step father, Spencer Folken She married Leonard DeRubeis on Mary 31, 1956 in Clovis, New Mexico. They renewed their vows on their 25th wedding anniversary. They shared a loving relationship for 63 years. He survives in Toluca. Also surviving are her children, Terri (Mark) Taylor and Sherri (Keith) Gerdes, both of Toluca and Diane (Mark) Meacham of Danvers, three grandchildren, Angela (Greg) Hammes, Eric Meacham and Jake Arndt, four great-grandchildren, Baylee, Audrey, Gavin and Oresto, one sister, Sharon (Walt) Stroyeck, of Toluca and one brother, Greg (Sheila) Folken, of Bloomington. Her parents, step father, an infant son, Mark DeRubeis, preceded her in death. Charlotte attended St. Ann's School and was a graduate of Toluca High School, Class of 1956. She worked at Gene's Electric in Toluca as a secretary and retired in 1972. She later went on to work at Bernardi's Italian Foods and Monte Cassino Health Care. Her great loves in life were to going fishing, camping, campfires, painting, crafts, and crocheting hats for the children of St. Jude. Above all things she enjoyed spending time with her family and friends. Her and Leonard enjoyed spending her winters as a snowbird with their many friends in Florida.