Mary Rose Jung

Our dear mother Mary Rose Jung sadly passed away on March 4, 2024 of a long-term illness, at the age of 92. She was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois on August 6, 1931 to Italian immigrant parents, Louis Cameli and Natalie Cameli at the height of the Great Depression. Her childhood was rich in love and support from both family and childhood friends that banded together during the Great Depression to share food and resources to weather the financial hardships. Against the odds, she excelled in her studies and was admitted to Loyola University Chicago to study nursing where she graduated near the top of her class. Nursing was her vocation. She loved helping others. She spent her early years as a registered nurse at the Veterans Administration hospital in Virginia and retired from nursing at the age of 62 after over 40 years of service. She was the best nursing advocate anytime that her husband or children were ill or in the hospital with a serious illness. While in Virginia, she met the love of her life, John William Jung. They married on November 17, 1956, and started a family. Mary and John, both being raised in the Catholic Church, focused on Catholicism in raising a family. Our mom was a regular church attending member of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Sugar Land, Texas for 35 years.

She was a wonderful mother and grandmother who was always there when we needed her. She also had many friends and was a well-loved member of her community in Meadows Place, Texas. She was preceded in death by her loving husband, John Jung, and beloved grandson, David Fabian. She is survived by her children, John Jung, Jr., Leon Jung, Matthew Jung, Germaine Jung Fabian and her husband Glen, Maria Jung Barber and her husband Harold, eight grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.

Funeral Mass will be held at 11:00 AM, Friday, March 22, 2014 at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, 12627 W. Belfort, Sugar Land, Texas 77478. Rite of Committal to follow in Forest Park Westheimer Cemetery.

In lieu of usual remembrances, the family requests donations be made to St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in memory of Mary R. Jung.