Mary Ellen "Sisty" McCarthy

1917 - 2004

Mary Ellen "Sisty" McCarthy, 87, died Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004.

Funeral: 2 p.m. Monday at All Saints Episcopal Church, 5001 Crestline Road, with the Rev. Christopher Jambor and the Rev. Bert Honea officiating. Burial: Greenwood Memorial Park. Visitation: Family and friends will be received at home on Saturday and Sunday Evening.

Pallbearers: Her grandsons, H.L. Brown III, Joseph M. Berkes, J. Hunter Bobbitt, Tyler M. Bobbitt and John Guion Gregg, and grandsons-in-law, Gregory G. Fowlkes and Robert L. Moore Jr.

Memorials: May be made to a charity of one's choice.

Mrs. McCarthy was born Aug. 18, 1917, in Fort Worth. She was the daughter of Mary Storm Lilly and Albert Artice Lilly. After her father's early death, she lived with her mother in Brookhaven, Miss. They later returned to Fort Worth, where Sisty was raised by her mother and loving stepfather, Charles W. Daggett.

Sisty attended Our Lady of Victory and Central High School. She spent two years at Fairmont College in Washington, D.C., before attending the University of Texas where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi. Mrs. McCarthy was a member of All Saints Episcopal Church, the Junior League of Fort Worth, River Crest Country Club, the Assembly and the Fort Worth Garden Club. Her favorite pastime was playing bridge with her dear friends. She had been playing bridge with the group since 1943. Sisty was loved by all who knew her and adored by her four daughters and eight grandchildren, who called her Mimi.

She was preceded in death by her most beloved husband of 42 years, Joseph Edward McCarthy Jr., her parents and her brother, Albert Artice Lilly Jr.

Survivors: Daughters, Mary Anne McCarthy Cowan and husband, Dr. William W. Cowan, of Fort Worth, Megan McCarthy Bobbitt and husband, James Bobbitt, of Fort Worth, Shelley McCarthy Gregg and husband, Gurion Gregg III, of Dallas and Ellen McCarthy Kelly and husband, Raymond B. Kelly III, of Fort Worth; grandchildren, Annabelle Fowlkes and husband, Gregory G. Fowlkes, of New York City, N.Y., Hubert Leon Brown Jr. and wife, Caroline Brown, of Midland, Joseph McCarthy Berkes of Fort Worth, Hunter Bobbitt and wife, Kimberly, of Fort Worth, Tyler Bobbitt of Fort Worth, Shelley Anne Moore and husband, Robert Moore, of Houston, Megan McCarthy Gregg and John Guion Gregg of Dallas, Alice Kelly and Anne Kelly of Fort Worth, William W. Cowan Jr. and wife, Andi Cowan, and Robert W. Cowan and wife, Melinda Cowan; and nieces, nephews and extended family.