Rita Franziska Hoy

Love for God’s children was the defining message of the life of Rita Franziska Hoy who entered the eternal joyful presence of her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on February, 25th 2025 in Naples, Florida.

Her story began on March 23, 1946 in Mannheim, Germany born to Auguste Franziska Glaser (nee Gartner) and then lovingly taken into the family of Joachim Karl Fritz Glaser.

Deciding to leave war-torn Germany for America, the family arrived in New York City on December 15, 1954 and then settled in Connecticut. Rita proudly became an American citizen in 1961.

Placed in public schools as a young child, her tender heart was formed by the task of learning to speak English while enduring the anti-German post-war bias of many of her classmates, painfully teaching her a deep compassion for others less fortunate in life.

Beautiful in body, mind, and soul she came to excel in her studies and graduated with honors from high school, but was denied further educational opportunities by the necessity to work and help support her family. At a younger age, she had even worked the Connecticut tobacco barns.

Various interests in retail and the insurance profession developed her keen business sense and she went on to the field of human resources at Newington Children’s Hospital in 1978 where she met her future husband, David J. Hoy.

Led to carry on their life’s mission of helping people with physical disabilities, together they established businesses in Mansfield, Ohio and succeeded in their goal of providing innovative orthopedic designs to help people of all ages walk again, continuing to this day.

So very talented in many different creative ways, her artisanal works included knitting, crocheting, a prayer shawl ministry, painting, needlepoint, woodburning, calligraphy, home decorating and whatever else she put her mind to while also enjoying writing poetry, along with the reading of books at an amazing speed. Rita was one formidable Scrabble opponent!

Her joy of excellent cooking was also part of her love language to her family, but stories are still told of the over-abundance of frozen turkey tetrazzini from holiday meal leftovers, a nod to her early days of material deprivation, but always faithfully believing that her heavenly Father would provide for all the needs of her earthly days.

She is most closely survived by her loving husband David, her son Marc N. Turenne and his family, and was pre-deceased by a dearly beloved adopted daughter Rebekah Faith Hoy Mansour and her son Maxwell David Mansour.

All other family and friends are asked to remember Rita in their private memories of her life, in the absence of a memorial service at her request. Contributions in her memory are requested given to a Christian charitable organization of personal choice.

Jesus said to them… “Whoever receives one child like this in My name, receives Me; and whoever receives Me does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me.” Mark 9:37