Lucy Elizabeth Rose

Lucy Elizabeth Rose passed away quietly

on Sunday, February 28, 2010 at her home

in Corona del Mar, California. She was 87.

From her childhood in Seattle, Washington,

she moved to California after World War II

and married Robert L. Rose. The Rose’s

were residents of Balboa Island and Palos

Verdes before moving to Dallas, Texas in

the mid-1950’s. They traveled extensively

in connection with Mr. Rose’s worldwide

responsibilities in the oil business. After Mr. Rose’s untimely death in 1961,

Lucy moved back to Newport Beach with her son and daughter and has lived

in the same house in Corona del Mar ever since. She never remarried.

She was a long time member of the Balboa Bay Club in the 1950’s through

the 1980’s and after her children were older, began assisting the sales efforts

for the then-new condominiums at the Bay Club. This led to her obtaining her

real estate license and beginning a long and successful residential real estate

career, primarily with Coldwell Banker. She eventually retired while, as she

said, “real estate was still fun”.

She became involved in various charitable activities while she was working

and remained involved after retirement but was also able to travel often and

was able to visit the Mediterranean and Scandinavian countries of Europe,

Russia as well as Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

Her children and friends will remember her for many things but perhaps mostly

for her sense of humor. Even her birthday was an object of fun. While her

official birth date is August 9, her mother later believed that she was born on a

Monday which, in 1922, would have been the 7th. Lucy solved that problem

by celebrating her birthday for three days every year. Family and friends will

always remember her 80th birthday party cruising Newport Harbor.

In addition to her children, Stephen, Andy and Mimi, she is survived by her

brother, Joseph Aymes and his wife Ann, sister in law Nancy Rose, grandchild

Kathy Hart, and great grandchildren Dylan and Ava Rose Hart. In lieu

of flowers, the family requests that a donation be made to a favorite charity.