Alberta Gudehus

April 30, 1922 - March 14, 2016

93 year old, Alberta Gudehus of Pana Illinois died Monday, March, 14, at 11:50 AM at Life's Journey Senior Living, Pana, Illinois. Visitation will be in St Patrick’s Catholic Church on Monday, March, 21 beginning at 1:30 PM. Funeral services will follow at 2:30 PM in St Patrick’s Catholic Church with Father Rodney Schwartz officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Pana, Illinois. Alberta Gudehus was born Sunday, April 30, 1922, in Pana, Illinois. She was the only child of Joseph and Cecelia (maiden name Franscavitch) Comi. Alberta was a lifelong resident of Pana; she attended Sacred Heart School and was a graduate of Pana Township High School class of 1940. Alberta completed coursework and graduated from Secretarial College beginning her career in Washington D.C., and later in Chicago before returning to Pana. Upon returning to Pana, Alberta became a social worker and Clerk of Pana Township, a position she held until her retirement in 1975. Alberta married her lifelong partner, Arthur F. Gudehus, in St Patrick's Catholic Church, Pana on June 21, 1949; he died March 29, 2012. She is survived by her daughter Lynn Bitter and her husband Grant of Agoura California. Three grandsons Kurt of Seattle Washington, Mark and Ryan of Agoura California.