Obituary

Lucille Vannoy Fitzgerald
Palestine Herald Press - November 10, 2002

Services for Lucille Vannoy Fitzgerald, 94, of Montalba, will be at 1 p.m.
Monday at Bailey & Foster Funeral Home with the Rev. Charles Grasty
officiating. Burial will follow at Rock Church Cemetery in the Blackfoot
community. Mrs. Fitzgerald died Friday at Cartmell Home for Aged in Palestine.
She was born Jan. 10, 1908 to James Robert Vannoy and Mary Elizabeth Isabell
Vannoy. Mrs. Fitzgerald was reared in the Blackfoot community, attending
school there. She was a member of the Baptist Church. She married Loyd S.
Fitzgerald in 1936. They settled in Pasadena, where she worked as a seamstress
and school bus driver in Pasadena ISD. After retiring she moved to Montalba in
1980. She was an active member of the Montalba Baptist Church and the Montalba
Community Improvement Association. For many years she, along with other
quilters, donated special quilts for the community in drawings to raise money
for community improvements. She was preceded in death by her brothers, Jim
Vannoy and Thomas Isaac Vannoy; sisters, Geneva Thomas, Laura Willhite and Mary
Etta Henderson. Mrs. Fitzgerald is survived by a host of nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be nephews and great nephews. Visitation will be from 6 to 8
p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorials, if desired, may be made to Montalba
Baptist Church.