Obituary of Frances Mitchell

Frances Donovan Mitchell, age 79, of Trumbull, a homemaker, died on Friday, March 18, 2005 in Bridgeport Hospital. Born in Boston, Massachusetts on June 8, 1925, she was a daughter of the late John J. and Catherine A. Bockelmann Donovan and a Trumbull resident for 40 years.

Survivors include her husband of 57 years, Robert J. Mitchell, four daughters, Katherine Mitchell and her husband, John of Shelton, Elaine Marsala and her fiance, Bill Vasas of North Haven, Cynthia Stevenson and her husband, Ronald of Trumbull, Marianne Reithoffer and her husband, Rick of Gibsonton, Florida, a son, Robert J. Mitchell, Jr. of Conyers, Georgia, two sisters, Lillian Burrill of Brockton, Massachusetts and Carol Holmberg of Whitman, Massachusetts, five grandchildren, Amber, Jason, Ricky, Matthew and Jamie. 

Funeral services will take place on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 9:00 a.m. from the Abriola Parkview Funeral Home, 419 White Plains Road, Trumbull, and at 10:00 a.m. in St. Theresa Church, Trumbull for a Mass of Christian Burial. Interment will follow in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Trumbull. Friends may call on Monday from 4-8 p.m.