Hrpcha

Mabel Fracaro Hrpcha was the author of the Romeoville Area Historical Society book Romeoville, Illinois. In the book, she chronicled the life of early Romeoville-area residents. She was the seventh child of Nicholas and Theresa, described under “Fracaro.” She remembered milking cows, pitching hay, boiling and ironing clothes, picking fruit for canning, cleaning Romeo Beach, and gathering coal that had fallen out of coal cars from the Alton tracks to warm the house in the winter. Mabel was also one of the founders of the Romeoville Area Historical Society.