Mary P. Lorkovic

Mary Pulvirenti Nelson Lorkovic was born on September 12, 1924 at her parents’ farmhouse near Richland, New Jersey. She fell asleep on January 30, 2019 and is awaiting the rapture. "But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words." 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead." Isaiah 26:19

Mary was truly a Proverbs 31 mother and took good care of her family. She came to Florida with her children in the first week of November 1960 driving a black, two door 1950 Oldsmobile sedan. She went to work for Lawyer's Title Company, then the Army Corps of Engineers. She worked as a budget analyst for the Orlando Recruit Training Center, the Orlando Navy Center, and for one year at the Key West, Florida Navy Base. Among her duties, she calculated with pen and paper $30 million per budget year, in the days before computers became available in her department.

She was the budget analyst who gathered the operating cost figures for our Senators and representatives in order to try and save the Orlando Navy Base from being closed. The Orlando base was the least expensive to operate but it was closed. She enjoyed driving her two tone green 1971 Pontiac Firebird Esprit to and from work. After her Firebird became an antique she joined the Antique Auto Club of America and the Antique Auto Club of Cape Canaveral. Upon her retirement she volunteered for the City of Cocoa's Code Enforcement Board for ten years with the intention of helping to beautify the city.

She asked the Lord Jesus Christ into her heart as Savior and followed that profession of faith in believer's baptism at Grace Baptist Church. She was remarried at Grace Baptist Church to the late Anthony N. Lorkovic. She is survived by three children, three grandchildren, four great grand children and three great great grand children. Mary was her mother's caregiver and the Lord blessed her with a long full life keeping his promise to her according to his commandment, "Honour they father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." Exodus 20:12