Return to Station Listings
|
Loucetria Gearing
Born: 2/18/1932
Died: 1/17/2020
Age: 87
Community: Flint, MI
|
|
Loucetria Eyvonne (Rose) Gearing passed away unexpectedly and peacefully in her sleep on Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. She was a month shy of her Feb. 18th birthday, when she would have been 88 years old. She was the daughter of farmers, Lilley (Dunn) Rose and Leo Rose, from Illinois then Missouri. Loucetria was born here, after they moved North like many others, where Leo could get a good paying job in a Flint factory. Her uncles took part in the original sit-down strike. She was a girl with a pony. She was a girl who, for a time, lived in a house with whitewashed newspaper for wallpaper and no indoor plumbing. She attended Grand Blanc Schools when the Ezra W Perry building WAS Grand Blanc Schools. For a time, she was a girl with 2 alternate outfits to wear there every other day. She was also Head Majorette for the marching band, and captain of the Grand Blanc High School Girls Basketball Team, graduating a half year early in 1949. Her graduation picture was so striking, that when she visited a friend at Bendle High School, she saw her picture on display in the graduation photographer advertisement. She was a young woman who attended Flint Junior College, where she met her future husband Sydney Cedric Gearing, a junior engineer, at the time, for AC Spark Plug. She was a graduate of Michigan State University. She worked primarily at the small Goodrich Hospital to pay for it, and received her bachelor's degree as a Medical Technologist. She was a Med Tech for McLaren Hospital, working part time as she raised her daughter Alicia Anne, born in ‘58, and her son Sydney Cameron, born in '63. She took the full time position of McLaren Lab's Student Coordinator when her children were older. She was a women who was surreally in the wrong place at the wrong time, along with her daughter, when a propane tanker truck trailer became decoupled from its cab, and fell off the I-69 overpass onto I-75 below, in August, 1976. Loucetria made the front page of the Flint Journal, and spent 4 months in the Burn Unit at Hurley. Over time, she made a near full recovery and continued on with her full life. Loucetria oversaw the 1982 marriage of her daughter to Daniel McHugh, who thought the world of her. And she was the most tender and thoughtful grandmother to Jas Cameron and Emma Eyvonne, born in '88 and '91. She was a women who helped put an addition on her home in Oak Hill Subdivision; traveled to the Florida Keys in the motor home; got to see the small Rose Castle in Scotland, and the beaches of Hawaii. She was the president of the Grand Blanc Women's Club for 3 different terms over a span of 40 years. A funeral service will take place at 2pm on Friday, January 31, 2020 at Hill Funeral Home, 11723 S. Saginaw St., Grand Blanc. Visitation will be held on Friday from 11am until 2pm. Interment at Crestwood Memorial Cemetery. Those desiring may make a memorial contribution to the DorisDayAnimalFoundation.org. |
Copyright © 2025 Direct Obits, LLC
| Visitation |
| Date: |
|
1/31/2020 |
| Time: |
|
11:00 AM |
| 11am - 2pm |
|
|
| Funeral Service |
| Date: |
|
1/31/2020 |
| Time: |
|
2:00 PM |
| |
| Location: |
|
Brown Funeral Home
11723 S. Saginaw St.
Grand Blanc, MI 48439Get a Map to this location...
|
| Official: |
|
Pastor Sarah LaRose-Nettell |
|
Return to Station Listings
|
|
