Marjorie Alice Lacy

Marjorie Alice Lacy January 5, 1923-August 7, 2010 Marjorie Alice Carter Lacy passed away Saturday, August 7, 2010. Services will be 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, August 11, at First Presbyterian Church with Rev. David Hyers officiating. Burial will follow at Oakwood Cemetery. Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, August 10, in the Garden Room at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey. Marjorie was born in Dallas, Texas, on January 5, 1923, as the first child of James Robert Carter and Alice Armstrong Carter. She and her only brother, J. Robert Carter, Jr., grew up in Highland Park in Dallas. She attended The Hockaday School, playing field hockey as a goalie and was a model for Neiman Marcus. She studied two years at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia, and finished college in 1943 with a BA degree from the University of Texas in Austin. She was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority. After graduation, she met a handsome young navy officer, Roane Lacy, whom she married on March 1, 1944, at her home in Dallas. They moved to Pensacola, Florida, where he served as a naval aviation flight instructor. They moved to Waco after the war. She was his loving and faithful wife for 65 years, until his death in 2009. She was very active in social and civic affairs all her life, serving in leadership positions of the Junior League of Waco, Planned Parenthood, the Oakwood Cemetery Association and the Strecker Museum. In the early days of television she hosted live television programs aimed at scientific education for children, on KWTX on Saturday mornings. She was a devoted fitness enthusiast and was known affectionately as "Rambo". She would always show her muscles and kept up her routine workouts into her 88th year. Marge was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church and loved attending First Presbyterian Church in Waco, participating in worship, teaching children's Sunday school, and providing flowers, gifts, and jokes regularly. She loved to be with people in every situation in life. Generous and caring, she always had a joke and a smile to cheer each person she met and was diligent in visiting and caring for others. She knew no strangers and would sincerely compliment everyone she met. She could celebrate and have lots of fun, which she did well all her life with a strict morality and a strong will. "Tiger" was her husband's very appropriate nickname for her. She will be missed sorely, but she leaves warm memories of a life well-lived in the now heavier hearts of all who knew her. Immediate family members who have preceded her in death are her husband, Roane Lacy, Sr.; her brother, Bob Carter; and a grandson, Robert Jefferson Lacy. She is survived by her two children: Roane Lacy, Jr. and wife, Ann, and Helen Lacy Bryan. She also leaves behind five beloved grandchildren to whom she was known as "Gigi": Benjamin Cooper Lacy and wife, Noell, Jane Selden Lacy Talebi and husband, Hani, Cate Bennett Lacy, Madison Chase Bryan, and Jack Carter Bryan; her step-grandson, Bo Bryan; and 5 great-grandchildren: Madison Carter Lacy, Morgan Elizabeth Lacy, Cooper Roane Lacy, Kai Ona Talebi, and Mina Selden Talebi. Her nieces and nephews who survive her are Susan Carter Johns and Bobby Carter of Dallas; Martha Howe, Elizabeth Winn, Ann Brown, Golda Brown, Walter Lacy, Tom Lacy, David Lacy, Chris Lacy, Heyward Taylor, and Rhett Taylor. And, she leaves her home caregiver and companion, Bobbie Howse, whom she loved and appreciated. Pallbearers are Ben Lacy, Chase Bryan, Jack Bryan, Walter Lacy, III, Tom Lacy and Heyward Taylor. Memorials may be made to the First Presbyterian Church Foundation or to a charity of choice. The family invites you to leave a message or memory in our "Memorial Guestbook" at www.WilkirsonHatchBailey.com.