The news came to me this way:
Barbara Friederich, nee Swierczek, 44, of Germantown, formerly Belleville, Ill, born Sept. 15, 1961, in Belleville, Ill., died Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005, at Scott Air Force Base Hospital. Barbara was employed as a Chiropractic Assistant for New Baden Chiropractic.
She was preceded in death by her father, Joseph Swierczek, Sr.; and her father-in-law, Vernon Friederich. She is survived by her husband, Nick Friederich, Sr.; her children, Nicholas Friederich Jr., Elizabeth Friederich and Zachary Friederich; her mother, Gloria, nee Klinckhardt, Swierczek of Lake of the Ozarks, Mo.; a sister, Kathleen (Ed) Hock of Belleville, Ill.; three brothers, Joseph (Paula) Swierczek, Jr. of Belleville, Ill., Patrick Swierczek of Kansas City, Mo., and Michael (Annette) Swierczek of Freeburg, Ill.; her mother-in-law, Nonna Friederich of Belleville, Ill.; a brother-in-law, Larry and Barbara Friederich of Collinsville, Ill.; and two sisters-in-law, Diana and Mike Compton of Highland, Ill., and Debbie and Danny Grimmer of Waterloo, Ill. She was a very loving aunt to thirteen nieces and nephews
I met Barb my senior year of high school. She was a total knockout brunette and always quick with a smile. I got to know her through powderpuff football and our senior year club called the "Phantoms". We were the students who would get up at 4am on Friday mornings before the football games and hang up the various banners around school and t.p. the trees around the campus (and can you believe that the school administration not only allowed this--they ENCOURAGED it??). Barb was one of the people out there with me on those cold mornings. She was a lot of fun, and I find myself this morning....feeling just a little bit older than I was the day before.
Later,
Jeff
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I was sitting at my computer the other night grieving the loss of my big sister Barbara….when I felt like I needed to see her obituary again, because I still cannot believe she’s gone. I searched on yahoo with her name and a link to your diary came up, so I read it. It touched me and I just wanted to say thank you for what you wrote. It’s just another validation of what a wonderful person she was and our family misses her horribly.
Patrick (Her little brother, that’s what she called me even though I’m 37.)
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