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Elizabeth Ann Darby SFO (Liz) April 22, 1941 – April 21, 2105 peacefully went home to her Savior Lord Jesus Christ after battling a lengthy illness.
A Franciscan Wake service is at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, April 27, 2015 in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel. Mass of Christian burial is at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church with burial following at Calvary Catholic Cemetery.
Liz was born at home to Herbert P. and Helen C. Hasselman in St. Marys, Pennsylvania.
When she was about two years old, her father's job with Sylvania transferred them to Lock Haven, Pennsylvania where she lived for the next 16 years. Her formal education was at St. Agnes Catholic School and Immaculate Conception High School where she graduated in 1959. She went off to fulfill her life's dream of becoming a nurse, and during the first semester of school was swept off her feet by a young Air Force Sergeant and became a military wife and stay at home mother to six beautiful children.
The family retired in San Angelo, Texas in 1975 where she has resided ever since. While living in San Angelo, she continued her dream of becoming a Nurse and spent 28 years working at Angelo Community Hospital as a cancer and oncology nurse. She's been a 3rd Order Franciscan for 29 years, and the devotion and dedication as a Franciscan allowed her to live life to the fullest. With this devotion she opened Brother Leo's Gift Shop in 2005 as a non-profit store. This was her ministry, to help and offer those who needed a little gift and spiritual inspiration.
She was preceded in death by both of her parents, Herbert P. and Helen C. Hasselman and two sons, Timothy S. Darby and Thomas Darby. Survivors include one brother Joseph Hasselman of San Angelo, TX; daughters: Teresa and husband David Chamberlain of Gulfport, MS, Kathie and husband Norman Gemme of Worcester, MA, Mary and husband Johnny Meads of Navarre, FL; one son Tris Darby and wife Gloria of Shirley, MA; daughter-in-law Misty Darby, wife of deceased son Timothy S. Darby, of San Angelo, TX; 17 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and numerous friends.
Special thanks to Gentiva Hospice for taking special care of our Angel.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in her memory to Mt. Carmel Hermitage, P.O. Box 337, Christoval, TX 76935-0337