Lucille Catherine Stock

Lucille Catherine (White) Stock

Germantown, TN

It is with great sadness that the family of Lucille Stock announces her death on February 26, 2016 at age 86 in Germantown, Tennessee.

Lucille was born on July 20, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan to her parents Allen White and Anna (Stafford) White Byrne. Her father Allen died suddenly shortly after her birth and her mother Anna moved back to her home of Perth, Ontario with her infant daughter. Anna later married Frank Byrne and had a second daughter Marie. Lucille was raised with Marie in that small, classic Ontario town surrounded by a large circle of extended family and friends. Both her parents' lines extend back to the settlement of Lanark County in the early 1800's. Despite travels and family moves that took Lucille far from that home, she was always affectionately known as a "Perth girl."

Two strong currents in her life as a result of that upbringing were her Catholic faith and her work ethic.

While in her late teens she began work at the Perth branch of the Bank of Montreal. And when her dear friends Lorna Monroe and Jean McGregor were ready to make the leap, the three of them moved from their small town to Mimico, a suburb of Toronto where they shared a small apartment and began a great adventure. Part of that adventure for Lucille was the joining of St. Leo's Catholic Church and participation in the drama club. This is where she met her future husband James Blair Stock.

They fell in love and were married on September 15, 1956 in St. John's Catholic Church in Perth. They began their own family in Mimico and a few years later began a series of family moves that would eventually take them to Memphis in 1976. By the time they moved to Memphis the family had grown to include seven children. Lucille, Jim and the children enjoyed many happy years in Chicago Heights, Illinois and Florissant, Missouri before landing in their home of 40 years in Germantown.

After her children were old enough, she re-entered the work force in the late 1970's and continued to enjoy her career until her retirement. That included 17 years at Cleo Wrap in Memphis as Employment Manager. She was known for her quick walking pace in the plant, her keen observations about people, her strength and her humor. She was also active in the Memphis Industrial Personnel Council, serving as president at one time.

While working and during her retirement, she enjoyed a rich life of volunteer work and social activities including a very special group of ladies known as "The Nine Holers" at Germantown Country Club. She was an active member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Germantown for 40 years. For more than 20 of those years she went to the church office every Monday, drawing on those old banking skills and helped count the proceeds from the Sunday collections. She also served as Eucharistic minister.

Lucille was particularly known among friends and family for her love of great food, her always current, yet classic sense of fashion and her delight in travelling the world.

She is survived by her husband, James Blair Stock, her children Kathryn (partner Deb Tinnin), Teresa (husband Matt Cychowski), Blair (wife Mary), Julia (husband Allen Carpenter), Helen Patterson, Alice and Frank (wife Deana). Also grandchildren Anna and Madeline Cychowski, Abbey McCourt (husband Matt), Joseph, Kevin and Sarah Carpenter, Jeremy (wife Amy) Patterson, Suzanne Bunker, and Tucker Stock.

Also, her dear sister Marie (Byrne) Ubdegrove of Kingston, Ontario and her husband Lennis. As well as her niece Yvonne (Ubdegrove) Sonneveld and her daughter Lenna Sonneveld and the late Andrew Sonneveld of Kingston.

Also surviving Lucille are the Toronto Stocks including Chuck and Sandra and their children Brian, Kevin (wife Michelle) and Karen. Andree, her late husband, Bill and their children, Simone (husband Misha Skoric) and Genevieve.

Finally, we would mention her longest friendship, which extends back to girlhood in Perth with Lorna (Monroe) Macdonald and her family.

Lucille was a loving, welcoming and outgoing person who knew how to work a room. She built a sense of community, family and friendship wherever she was in her life.

Visitation will be on Wednesday, March 2, from 5p.m. to 8 p.m. at Memorial Park Funeral Home, 5668 Poplar Avenue. The rosary will be prayed at 7 p.m.

A funeral mass will be held Thursday March 3 at 11 a.m. at Our Lady Of Perpetual Help Church 8151 Poplar Avenue, Germantown. Following mass there will be a lunch reception at the church.

Donations in Lucille's memory may be made to MIFA or the charity of your choice.