Ouachita-Lincoln County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....FITZMORRIS, JOSEPH PATRICK NEWMAN July 19, 2012
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News Star World - August 03, 2012
JOSEPH PATRICK NEWMAN (JP) FITZMORRIS

United States Navy Helicopter Air Crewman 1stClass, JOSEPH PATRICK NEWMAN (JP) 
FITZMORRIS, 31, of Ruston, Louisiana, was killed July 19th in Oman, when his 
MH-53E Sea Dragon, assigned to Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 15 
stationed at Norfolk, VA, crashed during a downed aircraft recovery operation 
of another helicopter, approximately 58 miles southwest of the capital city of 
Muscat.

A memorial service was held at Norfolk Naval Base on July 26 in Norfolk, VA. 
Funeral services will be held 10:00 A.M. Friday, August 3, 2012 at Trinity 
United Methodist Church on the I-20 North Service Road, in Ruston, Louisiana 
with a private burial immediately following, under the direction of Kilpatrick 
Funeral Home, with Navy Lieutenant (Chaplain) Jeffrey Ross and Associate 
Pastor Rev. Brian Mercer presiding.

JP was born September 13, 1980 in Shreveport, LA. He is a 1999 honors graduate 
of Ruston High School, in Ruston, LA, where he lettered in baseball, football, 
and track, and a 2003 graduate of Louisiana Tech University, with a BS degree 
in Kinesiology and Health Promotion. He was working on his Masters of Science 
in Kinesiology at the University of Louisiana (Monroe), when he made the 
decision to enlist in the US Navy in 2004. He was a veteran of several 
deployments to the Persian Gulf and he participated in humanitarian relief 
efforts following the earthquakes in Haiti.

JP married US Navy Ensign Jacqueline (Jacquie) Gulla on February 19, 2012, 
shortly before deploying to Bahrain with his squadron.

JP was a lifelong resident of Louisiana. He was a talented athlete and avid 
outdoorsman, who absolutely loved to duck and deer hunt, fish, and cook what 
game he killed or caught. Above all JP loved spending time with Jacquie, his 
shipmates, friends and family, and JP was a purple and gold hemorrhaging LSU 
Tiger Football fan. He was a member of Ducks Unlimited, Pi Kappa Phi 
Fraternity, and Trinity United Methodist Church.

JP is survived by his wife and best friend, Jacquie Gulla Fitzmorris, of 
Norfolk, VA; his mother, Florence Mae Fitzmorris, of Bossier City; sister, 
Jolie B. Mahfouz and her husband Judd, of Washington, D.C.; his beloved dogs 
Nala and Drake, and enough cousins, nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles to fill 
Tiger Stadium.

JP is preceded in death by his maternal grandparents Florence and Joseph 
Fitzmorris.

Memorials in lieu of flowers should be made to the JP Fitzmorris Memorial 
Fund, c/o Community Trust Bank, 1511 N. Trenton St., Ruston, LA 71270. The JP 
Fitzmorris Memorial Fund will be used to fund a scholarship to be given each 
year to a student graduating from Ruston High School who demonstrates some of 
the same wonderful qualities and interests as JP and who will be attending 
Louisiana State University. The family of JP wishes to thank the communities 
of Ruston, LA and Hampton Roads, VA, for their unending support and prayers 
and to those men and women serving at home and abroad, may you continue the 
guard and come home safely. 

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