Maurine Justice

Maurine Justice - 1914 to 2014 - passed away last week after 99 years of a
fabulous life. She was married for seventy years to her husband, who died six
years ago, and had four children: Milton, Judy, Larry and Wayne, and five
grandchildren: Amy, Carey, Lilly, Alex and Lachlan. She was a long time
member of the White Rock United Methodist Church, an original member of the
Lake Highlands Garden Club, the White Rock Study Club, and a volunteer at
Blanton Gardens Nursing Home. Raised in Dallas, she survived a series of jobs
during the Depression and married just prior to World War II. While her
husband was serving in the South Pacific, she went to work for Sanger's
Department Store, where she became Assistant Buyer in the Housewares
Department. At war's end she left her business career behind to take up the
honorable role of housewife and mother, spending countless hours driving to
and from various activities, baby sitting grandchildren and cooking the best pot
roast and Super Beef Casserole in the world.
While she was in elementary school, because of a particularly inspiring teacher,
she discovered a talent for art and her home in Lake Highlands is filled with her
paintings. One of the joys of her life was making water color paintings for her
kids' school projects; and every year, hand painting the covers of the Garden
Club and Study Club booklets. She is remembered for always smiling and
enjoying whatever she did. Reenie marveled at the world she had experienced, in
awe that she could talk to her nephews, who live in New Zealand - on an iPad,
and relieved she loved to read to occupy her time as she grew older. As a child,
because her widowed mother had difficulty finding work, she moved regularly,
and attended about twenty schools before graduating high school - something
she always believed gave her the opportunity to keep meeting new people.
Because of her husband's work, she was able to travel the world. As she recently
recounted to her niece, it was one of the things she liked best about her life.
She was one of a kind!