Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lilley, Ethel Prince Rumfelt November 4, 2005
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Virginian-Pilot  November 10, 2005
CHESAPEAKE - Ethel Prince Rumfelt Lilley, age confidential, passed away Nov. 4, 
2005. She was born and raised in Norfolk and made her home in Virginia Beach until 
moving to her daughter's house in Chesapeake about nine years ago, ultimately 
moving to Roanoke about two and a half years ago.

She had a full and meaningful life with a strong commitment to her faith and 
family. She grew up in Sacred Heart Parish in Norfolk and, as an adult, was a 
lifelong member of Star of the Sea Church in Virginia Beach.

She graduated from Maury High School and attended William and Mary's Norfolk 
Campus (now Old Dominion University). After marrying and having four children, she 
served her country as a civil servant for the U.S. Navy for 20 years, working in 
the Atlantic Fleet accounting office at the Naval Operations Base in Norfolk, 
receiving many awards for perfect attendance, hard work and innovative, money-
saving ideas which the Navy department implemented service-wide.

She was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother.

All will remember her for her good manners, her sense of decorum, her great sense 
of humor, her unwavering faith, and her loving, supportive and encouraging nature. 
She was known to her family as the "dessert queen," and she loved to travel, 
garden, shop and play bridge.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 32 years, Heber Byard Lilley and by 
her parents, Margaret Ethel Prince Rumfelt and Elmer Austin Rumfelt, as well as 
her brother, Jack.

She was greatly loved and will be sorely missed by her sons, Gregory B. Lilley and 
his wife, Marsha Peterson, of Fork Union, Va., and Vincent A. Lilley and his wife, 
Ellen, of Roanoke, Va.; her daughter, Sharon L. Arseneau and her husband, Kim, of 
Chesapeake; her son, Ronald A. Lilley, of Charlottesville, Va.; her nine 
grandchildren, Michael Lilley, Jennifer Lilley, Katherine Lilley, Ryan Lilley, 
John Arseneau, Amy Arseneau, Sarah Lilley, Bethany Lilley and Caleb Lilley; her 
sisters, Geraldine "Jerry" Clark, Stuart Tierney and Mary Jane Fellowes; many 
nieces and nephews; and her special friends, Ruthie Barnum and Elsie Moody.

The family wishes to extend its heartfelt thanks to the staff at Cypress Court 
Memory Care Center for their excellent care and compassion. Special thanks to Good 
Samaritan Hospice for their tender care over the past few months. In lieu of 
flowers, the family suggests donations to the Maryknoll Priests. To donate visit 
www.maryknoll.com.

The family will receive friends from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. today at H.D. 
Oliver Funeral Apts., 1416 Cedar Road, Chesapeake. A funeral Mass will be 
celebrated Friday at 11 a.m. at Sacred Heart Church, Norfolk, the Rev. James Parke 
will officiate. Interment will follow in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery.

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