Mary Reeves

Mary Reeves, 77, passed away peacefully at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital early Friday morning, Jan. 22, 2010.

She was born in 1932, and raised in Apalachicola, where she graduated high school and later attended Florida State University. She then moved to Port St. Joe where she raised her family and has been a long time resident.

Reeves was employed at Boyles Dept. Store as a sales clerk for many years and then later worked at the Senior Citizens Center.

She was survived by her four children, Geary Reeves (Diane), Pam DeFelice (David), Les Reeves (Shelly), and Steve Reeves (Debbie); five grandchildren, Christopher DeFelice, England Reeves, Amber Reeves, Jade Reeves, and Leslie DeFelice; several other close relatives Marie Wentworth, Alden and Lisa Wentworth, Jean and Edward Nabors, Dorothy Rolstad and family, Brandi and Brittany Smith, and extended Lichardello family; and special friends, Evelyn Babb, Betty Jean Godwin, Jerry and Lid Stokoe, Debbie, and Karl Bowman.

She was devout Catholic by faith and held strong to her beliefs and of her love for the lord where she attended church at St. Patrick Catholic Church. She loved being surrounded by all kinds of different flowers and spent many hours gardening and keeping them so pretty. Playing bingo and shopping on QVC were her other pastime favorites.

Services were held at St Patrick’s Catholic Church in Apalachicola at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 25 with burial at Magnolia Cemetery. A viewing was held Sunday evening, Jan. 24, with a Rosary said afterwards, at Kelley Funeral Home, 149 Avenue H, Apalachicola.

Always a loving mother and now a loving soul