Grace Lundi, of Kennesaw, Georgia
Published 9:56 am Thursday, September 25, 2014
Dec. 23, 1921 — Sept. 16, 2014
Grace Lundi
Grace Margaret (Booth) Lundi, 92, of Kennesaw, Georgia, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, September 16, 2014.
She was born to the late Walter and Edith Booth, Dec. 23, 1921, in Dowagiac, Michigan, and she had one sister and three brothers. Grace graduated from Dowagiac High School in 1939. She married the late Rudolph Lundi in 1946, and they lived together in Michigan, before relocating to Winter Haven, Florida in 1989.
After Rudolph’s passing in 1991, she moved back to Dowagiac for a number of years, then to Maryland, and finally to Kennesaw in 2006.
Grace went to beauty school because as she said, she couldn’t afford art school. She was a beauty shop owner and a self-taught artist utilizing watercolors, oils, pen and ink, and acrylic fabric painting. Her favorite was landscapes with oils or watercolors.
Grace belonged to the Dowagiac Art Guild, and she showed her work publicly for the first time in 1994 at the Dogwood Fine Arts Festival, where she won awards for her art.
She has also exhibited her work at the Peddler’s Cart in Dowagiac, and she won numerous awards at a county and Michigan state fairs and a county fair in Maryland. In addition to art, Grace enjoyed reading, knitting, crocheting, and spending time with family. One of her fondest memories was her trip with her late husband to Hawaii for their 30th wedding anniversary.
Grace was an active member of St. Paul’s United Church of Christ in Lansing, Michigan, and a member of Trinity Congregational Church in Winter Haven, Florida.
Grace is survived by her sister Eva Engle, of Jackson, Michigan and her three children: Joel Lundi, of San Antonio, Texas; Mark Lundi, of Ft. Myers, Florida; and Patricia Sheevy, of Kennesaw, GA. She also is survived by seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Donations may be given in lieu of flowers to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, October 18, 2014 at the First Christian Church in Dowagiac, Michigan. Grace will be buried at Fort Custer National Cemetery, Augusta, Michigan.
