Obituary of Mary J. Pace

Bedford Mary J. Pace, 81, of 804 26th Street, Bedford, died at 2:53 am on Monday, January 19, 2004 at Bloomington Hospital. Born August 4, 1922 in Lawrence County, she was the daughter of William and Mary Essie (Maddox) Sipes. She married Virgil Cotton Pace on August 16, 1941 and he died October 8, 1997. She was an operator with Indiana Bell for thirty years retiring in 1983. She was a member of the Oolitic Baptist Church and Indiana Telephone Pioneers. Survivors include two sons, Nick Pace and his wife, Shirley and Danny Pace and his wife, Carla all of Bedford; two daughters, Patricia Fitzgerald and her husband, John and Diana Anderson and her husband, Ned all of Bedford; nine grandchildren, Jamie Smith and her companion, Trent Niflis, Jackie Lipscomb and her husband, Rob, Jacy Stevens and her husband, Paul, Jordan Smith and her husband, Rusty, Toby Pace and his companion, Kathy, Brian Pace, Daniel Pace, Joshua Pace and Justin Pace; thirteen great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, one daughter, Janet Kay Pace; five brothers, John, Darcy, Richard, Kenneth and Ruel Frances Sipes; five sisters, Ida and Pauline Sipes, Clarice Ingersoll, Zoe Sharr and Maxine Bass. Funeral Information Funeral services will be conducted at 10:00 am on Thursday, January 22nd from the Elmwood Chapel of the Day & Carter Morutary with Rev. Richard Tallman officiating. Burial will follow in Cresthaven Memory Gardens. Friends may call from 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm on Wednesday, January 21st at the Day & Carter Mortuary.