Eleanor (Frenzel) Gaab, 93, Dickinson, died Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at the Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center, Bismarck. Eleanor’s Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m., Saturday, November 14, 2015 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Dickinson, with Fr. Keith Streifel as the celebrant. Interment will follow at the Dawson County Cemetery, Glendive, Mont. Visitation will be on Friday from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., at Ladbury Funeral Service, Dickinson, and will continue on Saturday one hour prior to services at the church. There will be a rosary & vigil at 7 p.m., Friday at Ladbury Funeral Service, with Deacon Ralph Stockert presiding.
Eleanor Scholz was born September 4, 1922 at Richardton, the daughter of Frank and Meta (Dassinger) Scholz. She was raised on a farm and attended school near Richardton. She married Edward Frenzel on November 3, 1943 and to this union five children were born. The couple lived in Dickinson for a short time before moving to Glendive, Mont., and raising their family. For several years Eleanor worked as a cook, nurse’s aide and housekeeper. She became a widow in 1976, and on October 15, 1979 she married Mike Gaab, the couple resided in Dickinson. Mike passed away in 2003, and Eleanor moved into a retirement home in Dickinson’s Pioneer Haven. She moved to Valley View Heights in Bismarck in June 2015, where she enjoyed the remainder of her life.
She belonged to the Sunlighters, Christian Mother’s, Sunset Center, Birthday Club, and Coronary Support group. She enjoyed cooking, baking, embroidery, gardening, playing cards, babysitting for grandchildren, family picnics and traveling.
Eleanor is survived by her children, LaVerne (Tim) Frakes, Walla Walla, Wash., Harlen (Jean) Frenzel, Williston, Janel (Darrell Evinrude) Deines, Glendive, Annette (Richard) Rime, Walla Walla, and Cindy (Dean) Dassinger, Bismarck; step-children, Kathleen (Herbert) Billman, Dickinson, James (Anita) Gaab, Gladstone, and Linda (Layton) Olstad, Sentinel Butte; 22 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and two siblings, Katy Messmer, Dickinson, and Victor (Caroline) Scholz, Richardton. She was preceded in death by her parents; and siblings, Frank Scholz, John Scholz, Rose Marie Scholz, Helen Wehner, and Annie Rebel.
