- Date Of Birth: September 18, 1925
- Date Of Death: April 25, 2016
- State: Illinois
Jean Charlotte (May) Mattei, 90, of Peru, passed away Monday, April 25, 2016, at Rivershores Healthcare Center in Marseilles. Jean was born September 18, 1925, in Waukegan to Edward and Jean (Ross) May.
Jean was a member of St. Marys’s Church in Peru and was a longtime member of the choir. She enjoyed playing piano and working on crossword puzzles. She was an animal lover. Jean loved her family and spent most of her days with her granddaughters, Amanda and Natalie as they grew up.
Survivors include her granddaughters, Amanda (Luke) Harty of Seneca and Natalie (Simon) Granner of Chicago; four great-grandchildren, Landon, Stella, and Lyza Harty and Addilyn Granner; two sisters, Patricia Youngman of Gurnee and Theresa Fleming of Libertyville; one brother, Dr. Edward (Caryl) May of Kenosha, WI; one sister-in-law, Rena (Jim) Baldwin of Highwood and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her former husband, Leo Mattei; her daughter, Leeann T. Franklin; three sisters, Elizabeth Perry, Agnes Jensen, and Mary Dugan and two brothers, John Jack and Richard May.
