Josephine Jo Maria Lucas

A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.

Then someone at my side says,

“there she is gone”.

“Gone where?”

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear the load of living freight to her destined port.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says: “There she is gone!”, there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout:

“Here she comes!”.

Henry Van Dyke

On January 23, 2014 Josephine “Jo” Maria Lucas of Columbia, MD died at the age of 80. Josephine was the beloved wife of the late Carvel L. Lucas who passed on December 4, 2013; beloved mother of Stephen Lucas and his wife Erika, Cynthia Lucas and her partner Patrick, Suzanne Lucas, David Lucas and his wife Sharon, and Richard Lucas and his wife Beth; dear sister of the late Salvatore and Francis Trombetta; loving grandmother of Stephanie, Christopher, Zachary, Jakob, Julianna, and Mia; cherished great-grandmother of Gemma.

Friends and family are invited to a Memorial Mass at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church 10431 Twin Rivers Rd., Columbia, MD 20144 on Saturday, February 1, 2014 at 11 am. Reception to follow. Inurnment at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Gilchrist Hospice Care 11311 McCormick Road, Suite 350, Hunt Valley, MD 21031 or Catholic Charities www.catholiccharities-md.org.