THIRD GENERATION

14. Lillian Fitzgerald (1) was born on 3 Oct 1902 in Inverness, Fl, Citrus County.(2) She died on 9 Aug 1983 in 1405 Urban Road, Zephyrhills, Fl, (Home). (2) She was buried on 12 Aug 1983 in Okeechobee, Florida. (2) [Fitz.ged]
Lillian Fitzgerald was seven years old in the 1910 Census, Citrus County, Inverness, Florida. She was not shown in the family in the 1920 Census. She was born in Inverness, Florida.

Lillian married Newton Stewart and lived in Okeechobee for sixty years before moving to Zephyrhills. Lillian was 80 years old when she died at her residence, 1405 Urban Road, Zephyrhills.

Lillian was a member of the First Baptist Church of Okeechobee. Survivors include: Daughter, Mary Hostetler, and Bertha Stairs, both of Zephyrhills; son, Doyle C. Stewart, of Zephyrhills; sisters, Bonnie Lauria of Tampa, and Esther O'Berg of Inverness, sister, Era Mills, step-son, Robert A. Stewart of Dunedin, 15 grandchildren, and 25 great grandchildren. Services were held at 10 a.m., Saturday, 13 Aug 1983, in the First Baptist Church of Okeechobee with the Rev Steve McGee, officiating. Okeechobee Funeral Home handled the arrangements.

Pallbearers were: Robert Stewart, Bob Wallace, Donald Stairs, Ricky Stairs, Steve Stairs, Mark Barthle, and Bruce Miller.

My Aunt Leta Fitzgerald Butler gave me a copy of Lillian's death announcement. It was very nice and shaped like a book marker in a plastic coating with a photo of Aunt Lillian on the fron side with a verse "They are not lost who find the light of sun and stars and God. There was a poem on the announcement:

Safely Home

I am home in heaven, dear ones
Oh, so happy and so bright
There is perfect joy and beauty
In this everlasting light.
All the pain and grief is over,
Every restless tossing passed,
I am now at peace forever,
Safely home in heaven at last.
Did you wonder I so calmly
Trod the valley of the shade?
Oh! But Jesus' love illuminated
Every dark and tearful glade
And he came himself to meet me
In that way so hard to tread
And with Jesus' arm to lean on
Could I have one doubt or dread?
Then you must not grieve so sorely,
For I love you dearly still
Try to look beyond earth's shadows,
Pray to trust our Father's will.
There is work still waiting for you,
So you must not idly stand
Do it no, while life remaineth
You shall rest in Jesus' land.
When that work is all completed
He will gently call you home
Oh, the rapture of that meeting
Oh, the joy to see you come.

Newton Stewart(1) was born on 5 Aug 1888 in Inverness, Fl, Citrus County. (2) He died on 4 Jun 1967 in Zephyrhills, Florida. (2) He was buried in Okeechobee, Florida. (2) [Fitz.ged]
Newton Stewart married Lillian Fitzgerald.
Newton and Lillian had six children:
Mary Stewart, daughter, had a son, Bobby Stewart
Bertha Stewart, married Vernon Stairs
Oliver Stewart
Doyle C. Stewart
Donald Stewart
Jerald David (JD) Stewart


Lillian Fitzgerald and Newton Stewart had the following children:

child+37 i. Bertha Stewart.
child38 ii. Doyle C. Stewart(1) was born in Okeechobee, Florida.(2)
child39 iii. Oliver Stewart(1) was born in Okeechobee, Florida.(2)
child+40 iv. Mary Stewart.
child41 v. Donald Porter Stewart(1) was born on 6 Jan 1925 in Okeechobee, Florida.(2) He died on 16 Apr 1972.
child42 vi. Gearl David "Jd" Stewart(1) was born on 19 Oct 1928 in Okeechobee, Florida. (2) He died on 26 Mar 1950.

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