Marilyn A. Lundy

Marilyn F. Lundy, 89, returned to our Lord on June 24, 2014, where she will continue to keep a caring eye on her beloved family. In addition to raising eight children, Mrs. Lundy served 31 years as president and CEO of the League of Catholic Women in Detroit, a social services organization offering aid to the disadvantaged. She also was a longtime advocate of parents' financial right to choose nongovernment schools. Marilyn Alice Fisher was born in Detroit on May 3, 1925, to Edward F. and Adeline Wink Fisher. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Detroit in May 1946 with a B.S. degree in philosophy. On Sept. 14, 1946, she married C. Bradford Lundy Jr., also of Detroit, with whom she raised a family and enjoyed 53 years of marriage until his death in 1999. The Lundys moved to Grosse Pointe Shores in 1958 and were active in Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish. Mrs. Lundy's involvement in education and social services started in the 1960s. In 1965, she was asked to serve on the board of the League of Catholic Women, a private entity, not run by the church, that had been formed by a group of Detroit women in the early 1900s to assist predominantly Catholic immigrants. When she became president in 1969, the League operated three agencies. By the time she retired in 2000, the re-named Matrix Human Services operated nine agencies and had an annual budget over $15 million. She also was active in the Michigan chapter of Citizens for Educational Freedom and served as national CEF president from 1978 to 1988. In 1988, Mrs. Lundy was elected to the Michigan State Board of Education for an eight-year term. She also participated in the 2000 voucher referendum campaign in Michigan. Mrs. Lundy served as a consultant to the Casa Richard Academy, a charter high school in southwest Detroit for at-risk youth, and as a board member of the Marilyn F. Lundy Academy, a charter middle- and high school on the border of Detroit and Hamtramck. Over the years she served on the Archdiocesan School Board and on the boards of the Univ. of Detroit, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, the United Way, Our Sunday Visitor newspaper, and the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights (New York). Mrs. Lundy was preceded in death by her husband, C. Bradford Lundy Jr.; her daughter, Rosemary Lundy Murphy; her daughter-in-law, Michele W. Fisher Lundy; and Robert J. Mason, whom she married in 2002. She is survived by her children Marilyn Lundy McCaffrey and Terence B. McCaffrey; C. Bradford Lundy III and Janice Lynne Lundy; Margaret Lundy Agnone and Dr. Eugene J. Agnone; son-in-law Terry P. Murphy and Jill Murphy; Dr. Edward F. Lundy and Eileen Venables Lundy; Kathleen Lundy Springuel and Didier A. Springuel; Lawrence E. Lundy; John D. Lundy and Kim Koester Lundy; 22 grandchildren; and 30 great-grandchildren. Visitation will be from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Sunday, July 6 (with the Rosary at 7:00 p.m.) at the A.H. Peters Funeral Home, 20705 Mack Avenue at Vernier Road in, Grosse Pointe Woods, and again at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, July 7, at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, 467 Fairford Road at Morningside, Grosse Pointe Woods, followed by a funeral Mass at 10:00 a.m. Monsignor Gary Smetanka will officiate. Interment will follow at Mount Elliott Cemetery in Detroit. Donations in lieu of flowers may be sent to The Fisherman's Fund (for tuition assistance for priests and laity studying at the seminary), c/o Sacred Heart Major Academy, 2701 Chicago Boulevard, Detroit, MI 48206 or Right to Life Michigan, PO Box 901, Grand Rapids, MI 49509.

Funeral Home:

A. H. Peters Funeral Home of Grosse Pointe

20705 Mack Avenue

Grosse Pointe Woods, MI

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