A celebration of her life will be held at 2:00 pm on Monday, February 14th at Holy Trinity Church. The family will receive friends after the memorial service in the Haywood Duke Room.
Mrs. Lucas was born August 1, 1926 in Asheville, NC. She was a graduate of Converse College in Spartanburg SC, where she also served on the Alumni Board. Mrs. Lucas was a member of Holy Trinity Church serving as both a Junior and a Senior Warden, a Lay Reader, and also on the Altar Guild.
She helped to establish Lucas Travel Agency along with her husband, John Simpson Lucas, and her mother-in-law, Mabel Simpson Lucas. Along with Ann Carlson and Millie Lucas, she was one of the original founders of Carlson Farms Antiques. She served as President of the Greensboro Junior League, as well as, Regional Director of both the North Carolina and South Carolina Association of Junior Leagues of America. Mrs. Lucas also served as National Secretary, and member of the National Board of Directors for the Association of the Junior Leagues of America.
Mrs. Lucas served on the YWCA Board of Directors, was a Girl Scout Leader, both an Honorary Chairman and member of the Board of Directors for the Greensboro Symphony Ball, member of the Little Gate Garden Club, Wednesday Afternoon Book Club, Greensboro Opera Guild and the Greensboro Debutante Club.
She was preceded in death by her husband John “Jack” Simpson Lucas, parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Barnett Hollingsworth, and sister, Mary Jane “Tootie” Hollingsworth Bagnal.
Left to cherish her memory are daughters, Rebecca Lucas Healy and husband Matthew F. Healy, III, and Lee Lucas Jones and husband Randolph Jones, Jr.; grandchildren, Matthew F. Healy, IV, Freeman R. Jones, III, John Simpson Lucas Jones, and Lee Hollingsworth Jones; brothers-in-law, Robert C. Little, and John W. McAlister; and fourteen nieces and nephews.
Memorial contributions may be made to Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 607 N. Greene Street, Greensboro NC 27401, or to Well Spring Retirement Community, 4100 Well Spring Drive, Greensboro NC 27410.
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