Lililan Fitts

Lillian Fitts -- BourbonnaisVisitation for Lillian Rieder Fitts, 88, of Bourbonnais, will be from 4-8 p.m. today at Clancy-Gernon Funeral Home, Bourbonnais. and from 9 a.m. Saturday at Asbury United Methodist Church until the 10 a.m. funeral services. Rev. Steve Goodin of Asbury UMC and Rev. Jack McCormick of Manteno Church of the Nazarene will officiate.Burial will be in Kankakee Memorial Gardens. Memorials may be made to the church of the donor's choice. She died Wednesday (April 12, 2006).Mrs. Fitts was born March 29, 1918, in Chicago, the daughter of Harry F. and Margaret Muths Ellis. Her husband, Rev. David L. Rieder, whom she married June 18, 1938, died Sept. 24, 1977. She then married Harry Poorman Oct. 11, 1980. He died March 19, 1984. She then married Walter B. Fitts July 24, 1986. He died Nov. 4, 1998. She attended Edgar Allan Poe Elementary and graduated from Fenger High School.She served as a pastor's wife for 40 years in American Baptist churches located in Marseilles; Gratiot Ave. in Detroit; Scribner Ave. in Grand Rapids, Mich.; Plymouth, Mich.; Momence; and Grace in Downers Grove. While living in Florida, she assisted in Rev. Rieder's ministry at the Juniper Springs National Park for five years and at the Four Lakes National Park for two years. She taught the Dorcas Women's class at Ocklawaha Bridge Baptist Church of Lynn, Fla. for 15 years. She had been a resident of Bourbonnais for the last two years. She attended Manteno Church of the Nazarene and Asbury United Methodist Church of Kankakee. She was a witness for God wherever she was.Surviving are two sons, Duane L. Rieder (Yvonne) of St. Anne, Gene D. Rieder (Rachael) of Bourbonnais; one daughter, Roseann Klose (Gerald) of Milner, Ga.; three stepchildren; six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren; 15 stepgrandchildren and 13 stepgreat-grandchildren; two sisters, Eleanor Peterson Heath of Phoenix, Ariz., Bernita Larson of LaHabra, Calif.; and one brother, Harry F. Ellis Jr. of Chicago.One son, Gene; her parents; one sister, Bernita; and one brother, Harry, are deceased.