Julia Fitzgerald (1953-2008)

FITZGERALD, MURPHY, TUNGESVIK, SHEARER, MCVEIGH

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 12/31/2008 at 20:53:41

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Wednesday, December 31, 2008.

May 25, 1953-Dec. 28, 2008

Julia Fitzgerald, 55, of Gilbert, died Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008, at Israel Family Hospice House in Ames. A funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, at Church of the Sacred Heart in Boone, with the Rev. Dennis Miller officiating. Burial will be in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Boone.

Friends may call from 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 1, at Schroeder Memorial Chapel at Sixth and Marshall streets in Boone, where a vigil service will be at 7 p.m., and the family will be present from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Visitation will continue from 8 to 9 a.m. Friday at the funeral chapel.

Julia was born May 25, 1953, in Boone, the daughter of Frank and LaVerne (Murphy) Fitzgerald. She graduated from Gilbert High School in 1971 and from the University of Northern Iowa in 1975. She was presently C.E.O. of director's staff for the Iowa Department of Transportation.

She was a member of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in rural Gilbert. Julia enjoyed gardening and lawn work.

She is survived by one brother, Mike Fitzgerald and his wife, Marge, of Ames; uncle and aunt, Maurice and Velda Fitzgerald, of Boone; longtime friend, Dave Kalvik, of Randall; one nephew, Matt Fitzgerald, of Gordon, Neb.; two great-nieces, Jera and Page Fitzgerald, of Gordon, Neb.; and cousins, Pat and Brenda Fitzgerald, of Boone, Mary Jo and Loren Tungesvik, of Radcliffe, Shannon and Mike Shearer, of Boone, Geralyn and Jim McVeigh, of Nashville, Tenn., and Lou Ann Anderson, of Ogden; and many other relatives.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Memorials may be given to Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church, rural Gilbert.

Online condolences and a guestbook are available at www.schroedermemorialchapel.com.

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