Stacey Wertz

Stacey M. Wertz, 50, of Dimmick passed away Nov. 17, 2019, in Illinois Valley Community Hospital, Peru after an extended illness.

A Mass of Christian burial will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Sublette with the Very Rev. Paul Carlson officiating. Burial will be at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Sublette. Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Wednesday in St. Hyacinth Church, La Salle. Additional visitation will be in the church in Sublette Thursday morning from 10 a.m. until services. Hurst Funeral Home in La Salle is assisting the family with arrangements.

Stacey was born March 13, 1969, in Mendota to Gene and Sue (Fischer) Leffelman. She married Richard J. Wertz on Nov. 27, 1993. In May 1989, Stacey began working as a radiology technician in Illinois Valley Community Hospital.

Stacey was the unofficial L-P team photographer. She was a Longaberger collector and dealer. She also made scrapbooks. She enjoyed vacationing with her family and friends. She loved her wrestling family, Tomahawk Bluff neighbors and friends, and her friends and coworkers at IVCH. Stacey was very active with L-P wrestling, and along with her husband, Rich, they were board members for the L-P Crunching Cavs.

Stacey is survived by one daughter, Abby O’Malley of La Salle; two sons, Andy and Max Wertz of La Salle; her father, Gene Leffelman of Sublette; two brothers, Shawn Leffelman of Sublette and Scott Leffelman of Amboy; sister-in-law, Debbie Duncan of La Salle; one niece, Whitney; three nephews, Tyler, Nick and Ryan; two great-nieces Emersyn and Sloan; and her kitten Georgie and cat Penny.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Rich on Oct. 10, 2019; her mother, Sue Leffelman in 1995; and stepmother, Faye Leffelman in 2013.

Memorials may be directed to the family for a fund to be established in Stacey’s name.

Pallbearers will be Mark Lorden, Ryan and Tyler Leffelman, Nick Duncan, Brandon Miller, and Patrick Shea.

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