Lucille M Peck

Tequesta - Lucille M Peck, 99, of Tequesta, Fla, died on Friday, June 6, 2025, in hospice care at Palm Beach Gardens Hospital of age-related causes, with her son Edwin by her side.

She was born in Maspeth, N.Y. to Margaret and Michael Gentile on Feb. 1, 1926. She grew up there and enrolled in nurses' training to become an RN at Adelphi University in, N.Y. as a member of the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II.

In her career as a registered nurse, she served as a hospital nurse, a doctors' office nurse, and a school nurse.

She married her dear late husband of 47 years, Edwin D Peck, Jr., in 1947. They raised two children in Massapequa, N.Y.

In 1977, they retired to Hobe Sound, Fla. where Lucille's husband died in 1994. In 2009 she moved to her current home in Tequesta, Fla.

Lucille was a member of St Christopher's parish in Hobe Sound for 31 years, then St Ignatius Loyola Cathedral, and in later years, St Edward's Basilica, and served as an Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist.

She was an active walker, swimmer, crafter, water colorist, and licensed realtor, as well as a devoted nurse to her husband, children, and neighbors.

In the tributes that poured in from family and friends after her death, she was admired as a kind, sweet, loving, lovely lady, strong and full of life, faith-filled, whose life was an honor to be part of, a model for aging not just gracefully but energetically.

She is survived by her daughter; her son Edwin T Peck; her nephew and his wife Michael and Janice Gentile; her nephews Paul, Pat, Tom, and Jim Gentile; her cousins Todd O'Brien and Maureen Faircloth; her dear friends Brian, Tanya, Kylee, Aidan, and Kassidy McDonald; and Gregory Warg, who was to her another son, and his wife Bonnie.

Her funeral will be held on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, at St. Christopher's Church in Hobe Sound, Fla.: 10 a.m. Visitation; 11 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial; and 12:45 p.m. Interment at Forest Hill Memorial Cemetery, Palm City, Fla.

Memorial donations may be made to the St. Francis Breadline, (www.stfrancisbreadline.org),144 West 32nd St., New York, N.Y. 10001-3202., a cause dear to Lucille's heart.

To leave a message of condolence or a memory, please visit Lucille's memorial page at www.foresthillspalmcityflorida.com