Patricia Hollembaek

Patricia Ann Hollembaek, of Davenport, passed away on Sunday, December 31, 2017, peacefully in her sleep at Ridgecrest Village. A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Christ the King Chapel, St. Ambrose University, Davenport. Visitation will be an hour and a half prior to service time at Christ the King Chapel. Burial will be at Rock Island National Cemetery, Arsenal Island. She will be buried with her husband of 52 years, Richard Hollembaek. In lieu of flowers, please donate to St. Ambrose University.

Patricia was born in Moline, on April 16, 1930, to Rene and Romanie (Schatteman) De Bo. She graduated from United Township High School in 1948. Patricia worked as a secretary at John Deere for seven years. She met the love of her life, Richard Hollembaek, at a Catholic Youth Organization dance and their first date was a St. Ambrose football game. The couple married on May 16, 1953. They adopted two children, Thomas in 1959 and Jean in 1961. The family moved to Arcadia, Calif., in 1968. She lived in there for more than 40 years while raising her family. Patricia was an excellent homemaker and entertainer. Her hobbies were going on walks, gardening and painting. She was the most caring, generous mother and grandmother a person could be blessed to have. She and Richard traveled the country and world together. After the passing of Richard, she remarried to her lifelong friend, Jim Grothusen, and they shared eight wonderful years together. She was a charter member of the President Club at St. Ambrose and attended every SAU-related event she could. Other organizations she was a part of were St. Dorothy’s Catholic Church (Glendora, Calif.), Los Ballerinos Dance Club (Glendora), St. Vincent De Paul Committee (Glendora), Prime Time Club (Glendora), AARP, Quad-City Times Plus 60 Club (Davenport), a valuable member of the Ridgecrest community and loving grandma to everyone she met. Her smile and warm heart will be remembered by all that where fortunate enough to know her. She will be profoundly missed by all who knew and loved her.

Survivors include her children; son, Thomas Louis Hollembaek; daughter, Jean Ann Hollembaek; her grandchildren (and spouses) Ryan Louis Hollembaek, Kyle (Kendell) Addison Hollembaek and Eryk (Danielle) Thomas Hollembaek, Hethyr Jean-Ann Hollembaek-Bakken and Dakota Wylie Hollembaek; great-grandchildren Curtis Louis Hollembaek and Ruby Hollembaek; sister, Doris (George) Straetker, and brother, Ronald (Jo Ann) De Bo; and step-children Connie (Michael) Shelsky, Jim Grothusen Jr., Mike (Mary) Grothusen, and Joe (Anne) Grothusen. She was preceded in death by her parents and two husbands, Richard Louis Hollembaek and James Francis Grothusen.

Visitation

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM ,Saturday, January 6, 2018
Christ the King Chapel
515 W. Locust Davenport, IA 52803

Mass of Christian Burial

10:30 AM ,Saturday, January 6, 2018
Christ the King Chapel
515 W. Locust Davenport, IA 52803

Burial

9:00 AM ,Monday, January 8, 2018
National Cemetery - RIA
900 Rodman Ave Rock Island, IL 61201