Lucile Mary Fassio Tibolla

Lucy was born on July 24, 1918 to John and Mary Fassio in Bingham Canyon, Utah.

Three years later, her family moved to Hiawatha near Price, Utah where her parents started a bakery. As a little girl at the bakery, she would sit on a stool and frost the cinnamon rolls. When Lucy was ten, her family moved to a 30-acre farm in Taylorsville. Working on the farm, Lucy learned early to work hard.

Lucy attended Plymouth School, where she enjoyed swimming and playing on the girls' softball team. She graduated as valedictorian of her class.Her love of learning continued at Granite High School, where she graduated in 1937 with honors.She went on to study at Quish School of Beauty, and after graduation, she worked at Auerbach's Beauty Salon. She also worked at Murray Laundry doing the hand ironing on delicate fabrics.

Lucy met her future husband, John Tibolla, at her cousin's wedding when he was 16 and she was 12. Their families met at that wedding and became friends. Lucy did not meet John again until 9 years later at another wedding of mutual friends. They started dating and were married 6 months later on June 1, 1940.

Following their honeymoon, they settled in Midvale, Utah. In 1945, they moved to a 5-acre farm in Murray, where they lived until 1994. At that time, they relocated further east on the same street to a home on ½ an acre.

When her husband John retired from Kennecott in 1976, they started volunteering at the Murray Heritage Center. Lucy volunteered in the kitchen and dining room. When she was 78, she also took over teaching the chair aerobics class, which she taught for almost 20 years. She volunteered thousands of hours at the Center. 

In addition to the aerobics class she taught, she enjoyed taking other aerobics classes and many of the dance classes offered at the Center. Following lunch, she loved playing Bingo with her friends at their table. She also took Spanish classes and enjoyed writing to pen pals. Even in her 90s, Lucy crocheted 2-3 hats per week for the Center to donate to people in need.

Lucy loved sports and was very good at them. She belonged to a bowling league for 20 years and consistently bowled 200+ per game. She also outshot the men she golfed with. She enjoyed fishing at Red Creek.

Lucy loved working outdoors, tending to her vegetable garden and the flowers that lined her property, including irises, lilies, alliums, and roses. She could be found outside daily, working in her garden until her late 90s. She grew garlic and braided it to sell at swap meets and share with friends and family. If anyone had a question about plants or gardening, Lucy always had the answer. She was known for her resourcefulness; her barn was full of treasures she saved, and she often had just what someone needed. She also collected over 100 cookie jars.Lucy loved music and dancing. She enjoyed her son John playing accordion for her and dancing with Johnny to his music. 

Her hobbies included coloring, crocheting, macramé, solving cryptograms and crosswords, playing Yahtzee and other games, reading Jane Austen novels, and watching old movies-her favorites were White Christmas and Persuasion. She also loved Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. Lucy was famous for her potica, pizzelles, and seven-layer bars, and she was known for feeding family and friends on weekends. She also enjoyed many years of working for the Guss family. 

Lucy cherished trips to the family cabin in Lava, vacations with her children, visits to see her children, and travels to Italy with her husband, Johnny. She also loved going to Wendover.Lucy was a big help to her children babysitting her grandchildren. In her late 90's to 100's when she could no longer live alone, she enjoyed playing with the great-grandchildren holding them, rocking them & reading to them. She even could be found dancing and playing on the floor with them and sometimes stealing their toys. In the end she loved holding and snuggling her special doll. 

She was known for reciting poems she had memorized, with "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" being a family favorite.She always saw to it that her children were able to enjoy lessons such as accordion, piano and dance. There were many times she stayed up all night sewing her daughters' dance costumes. Lucy loved her children's pets too. She would light up when they would sit and snuggle with her.

Lucy was very close to her siblings and immensely proud of her children. Her mother had three sets of twins, including Lucy and her twin sister, Dena.

She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Mary Fassio; her in-laws, Albina and Joseph Tibolla; her husband, John Tibolla; her siblings Adeline, Fred, Bruno, Lily, Dena, Esther, and twin infant siblings; her daughter Tricia; and two grandsons, Mikal and Shane. She had been looking forward to seeing all of them. 

She is survived by her children, Diane Curtz (Arley), John Tibolla (Bonnie), Terry Tibolla (Liz), and son-in-law Wes Marsden; her grandchildren, Mark Curtz (Renae), Paula Ortolani (Antonio), Camille Matranga (Jeff), David Tibolla (Merrilee), Andrea Pillsbury (Larry), Lily Marsden, and Nicole Brown (Ammon); and her great-grandchildren, Nicole Curtz, Lauren Curtz (Ian Stolk), Ryan Curtz, Michael Tibolla, Matthew Tibolla, Amber Aubin, Beckham Brown, Rockwell Brown, Dario Ortolani, Cohen Brown, James Pillsbury, Lucy Pillsbury, and Madi Brown.

The family extends heartfelt thanks to Dr. Holland and Hospice nurse Julie for their loving care of Lucy during her final month. 

A private graveside service will be held at the Murray Cemetery, where she will be laid to rest. The family also wishes to thank her granddaughter Andrea and Andrea's husband Larry for taking such great care of Lucy for the past few years.