By Staff
March 12, 2007
A memorial service for Rose Christine Lanza Stutts, 87, of Decatur, who died Monday, Mar. 12 at Hartselle Medical Center will be held at a later date.
Mrs. Stutts was born Feb. 17, 1920, in Pennsylvania to Benjamin Lanza and Mary Panzeca Lanza. She worked at the Redstone Arsenal Army Hospital as a microbiologist. She was a World War II veteran honored many times by Austin High School and The Decatur Daily and was a book reviewer for The Daily.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James C. Stutts, who died in 1969.
She is survived by a son, Steve R. Stutts and wife Vicki Lacy Stutts of Birmingham; three daughters, Rose Marie Stutts of Tuscaloosa, Anita Stutts Bolton and husband Buzz of Franklin, Tenn. and Carol Kricket Stutts and Donna of St. Petersburg, Fla.; a sister, Josephine Lanza Humanic of Pennsylvania; and four grandchildren.
Mrs. Stutts is to be cremated and her ashes scattered per directions in her will.
The family will have a private memorial service in April 2007.
In lieu of flowers, the family request donations be made to the American Heart Association in her name.
Peck Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.