Lucille Hartberg Jennings ’41
Lucille Hartberg Jennings, of Racine, Wis., passed away at Becker Shoop Center on Sept. 27, 2014. She was born to the late Ida and Andrew Hartberg on Aug. 7, 1919 at their farm home near Heron Lake, Minn. She attended the Heron Lake Public Schools and went to St. Olaf College before completing a B.S. in Home Economics Education from Iowa State University. She later earned a M.S. from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in Educational Administration and Supervision. She was employed as a teacher of Home Economics in Virginia, Minn. and Wisconsin. In Racine, she taught at the Racine Vocational School, Washington Junior High, and Gilmore Junior High School. She retired in 1984 after 31 years of classroom teaching. Her retirement years were busy with many trips to foreign countries, participation in many Elder hostel programs, and classes in ballroom, line dancing, and aquacise swimming. She enjoyed camping and travel vacations with her family as well as planning gardens with flowers to be enjoyed by all. Always active in community groups, she belonged to Wustum Museum, Racine-Kenosha Home Economic Association, Brandywine Conservancy, Wisconsin Education Association, Racine Retired Educators, Lincoln Lutheran Auxiliary, and Atonement Lutheran – Rachel Circle and volunteered for Meals-on-Wheels. Lucy was married to W. “Bob” Robert Jennings in Newport News, Va. on June 27, 1942. They moved to Racine in 1946 where they lived and where their children were born. They were married for 68 years. She is survived by their daughter, Mary Barcio and husband Jim; and sons, James Jennings and wife Marcy, and Andrew Jennings; grandchildren, Heather Barcio-Solon and husband Michael, Amy Groller and husband Joseph, Scott Schulz, and Robert Schulz and wife Sara; great-grandchildren, Sean Parker Schulz, Hayden Groller, Macy Rose Schulz, Maxwell Schulz, Samuel Robert and Seamus Solon, Shannon Solon, Alexandra Barcio, Michael Barcio, and Jacob Barcio; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bob, on Feb. 15, 2010; brothers, Wilbur Hartberg and wife Ramota, and Truman Hartberg and wife Irene; grandson, Anthony Barcio; parents; and parents-in-law. The family suggests memorials to the Atonement Lutheran Scholarship Fund in Racine, Wis., or The Becker-Shoop Nursing Center in Pleasant, Wis. in lieu of flowers.