Our dear friend, Mary Cimiluca peacefully passed away on Thanksgiving Day, November 22nd, after a decades-long battle with pulmonary fibrosis. Our hearts are grieving but we know she is happy in Heaven and with her dear husband, Don.

While excelling at everything she did, from anesthesiology to entrepreneurship, she also suffered great loss in he life, leading her to strongly embrace her faith and her passion for Viktor Frankl’s lessons of living a life of meaning.

Mary had close friends on the East and West coasts and there will be two services to celebrate her life. Her Memorial Service will take place at 10am on Thursday, December 6th at Holy Trinity Church in Ladera Ranch, California. The Funeral Mass will take place at 10am on Thursday, December 20th at the Basilica of Saint Mary in Alexandria, Virginia and Burial immediately following at St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, please consider donations to the Mary Cimiluca Memorial Fund at St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, www.fundraising.stjude.org