Lucille Evelyn Honeycutt McElroy

1925 - 2013

Lucille Evelyn Honeycutt McElroy, 87, was called home to the Lord suddenly Friday, Aug. 30, 2013. Memorial service: 11 a.m. Saturday at Church of The Good Shepherd United Methodist at 2020 S. Collins St., Arlington. Visitation: 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friday at Arlington Funeral Home. She was born in Trenton, N.J., on Dec. 29, 1925, to the late Willie M. and Julian B. Honeycutt Sr. The family moved to Texas in 1944 after she graduated from Trenton High School and her dad retired from teaching at the same school. She attended SMU and worked at the Dallas Times-Herald where she met her future husband who was a linotype operator. They married in 1946 and moved to Bellevue in Montague County, where he ran a small-town newspaper. Their son, Stephen, was born in the Bowie Hospital in 1947. They moved back to Dallas County to Grand Prairie in 1949 when Francis was asked to return to the Times-Herald. Lucille raised their son until they moved to Alaska Avenue in South Oak Cliff in 1951. They lived there until 1969 when she and Patt moved to Arlington where she resided until her demise. She returned to college at UTA when Patt graduated from Sam Houston High School and they both attended UTA together. Lucille received her BA and MA and entered the teaching profession. She taught at El Centro College in Dallas and TCU in Fort Worth before retiring to become a world traveler. Lucille and Patt visited Steve and Eleta in Germany in 1970 and toured the country with them. Later in the 1970s she and Patt again visited Europe with sister-in-law Dotsy and niece Kathy. This time they drove throughout the British Isle and then through Germany and Italy. In her 80th year, she took a pilgrimage via cruise ship and on foot to the early Christian church sites of Greece and Asia Minor. She also traveled the U.S. with her brother and his new wife, spending time in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida. She also went back and forth to Oklahoma to visit Patt and Kevin. Lucille volunteered her time as a receptionist at a hospital in Grand Prairie and worked part time for several different fabric shops in and around Arlington. She also spent time perusing several bookstores to satisfy her avid reading desires. Lucille attended Church of the Good Shepherd United Methodist in Arlington and was an active member of several Methodist Women's groups in different churches. She was preceded in death by her husband, Francis M. McElroy, and her brother, Julian B. Honeycutt Jr. Survivors: Her son, Stephen; daughter, Patricia and husband, Kevin; grandchildren, Jennifer Hamlin, Erich McElroy and Kathleen Ingersoll; great-grandchildren, Megan, Kyle and Dean Hamlin, Kara and Brandon Ingersoll, and Aiden and Eleanor McElroy; and many other family and friends who all cherished their time with her.