Labay

CAMERON—Services for Lucille Teresa Schoellmann Labay will be Thursday, April 7, 2022, beginning with a rosary at 2 p.m., followed by a funeral mass at St. Mary’s Church in Nada. Burial will follow at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Nada.

A visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, with a rosary recited at 7 p.m. at Marek-Burns-Laywell Funeral Home in Cameron.

Mrs. Labay died Sunday, April 3, at her residence.

She was born in Nada on Oct. 8, 1940, to Mary and Frederick Schoellmann.

She attended grade school at St. Mary’s Catholic School in Nada, then went to Nazareth Academy of the Incarnate Word with the intention of becoming a nun, but returned to Garwood to graduate high school.

She married Louis Labay on June 15, 1960, and they had four children.

Mrs. Labay became an RN and enriched her life by helping many people and obtaining many achievements, including: operating room nurse, taught operating room instrumentation at HCC, was a director of nursing, director of emergency rooms, she became a paramedic and participated in life flight programs in the area, and worked with cardiologist in cath labs.

She ended her career spending 17 years working with children as a school nurse, retiring with a total of 52 years in the medical field.

Survivors include her children, Dominic Labay, Lorrie Korenek, Lyle Labay and Amy Griffin; her brothers, Jim Schoellmann and Fr. Ed Schoellmann; and her sisters, Jean Leopold and Helen Deason; also, 18 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to: Maryknoll Missionary, Fr. Ed Schoellmann, P.O. Box 302, Maryknoll, NY 10545.