Julia Lenora North Sanders passed away peacefully in her sleep early in the morning of January 27, 2006 after a lengthy illness in Austin, Texas where she lived with her family. She was born May 18, 1917 in rural North Florida to Elmer North and Viva 'Thelma' Hathcox North but moved soon thereafter to Pasco County Florida where she in the fourth grade met her husband Frank Henry Sanders who was first her childhood sweetheart and thereafter her husband for almost seventy years. Upon graduating from Pasco County High School with Highest Honors in 1933, she received a gift of the Harvard Classics which she read cover to cover. Her command of English often amazed and amused her family and she used those skills until almost the end of her life, to tutor her daughter and her granddaughter in the proper use of the English language. She was a devoted wife, mother and homemaker, a skilled pianist, passionate about gardening and flower arranging and an avid golfer. She spent many years to the great delight of her family and friends serving up the most wonderful meals in both large formal and informal settings. Long before the concepts of nutrition and whole foods were commonplace, she prided herself on preparing wonderful food that was wholesome and tasty all the while proclaiming Southern Cooking to be the grandest of all culinary art forms. None of her guests ever dared to disagree. She dutifully accompanied her husband on each and every one of their many moves with the Atlantic Coastline and Seaboard Railroads throughout many cities in Florida and to Montgomery Alabama where they both made many new and wonderful friends. She was active in church and spiritual life in each of the communities where she lived. She is survived by her husband of almost seventy years, Frank Henry Sanders, her daughter and son in law Laura Sanders Fowler and Robert Penn Fowler and her beloved granddaughter Julia Marion Fowler. A funeral service will be conducted at the Weed-Corley Fish Funeral Home at 3125 North Lamar at 3:00pm on Wednesday February 1st, 2006. A reception for family and friends will follow immediately after at the home of her husband Frank Henry Sanders, daughter, granddaughter and son in law Laura and Julia and Robert Penn Fowler. Obituary and guestbook on line at wcfish.com
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