Rita Schlecht

Rita Gasperino Schlecht of Mobile, age 89, passed away at a local hospital on March 31, 2016. A native of New Britain, Connecticut, she grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she graduated from Olney High School and Pierce College. She later met and married Stan, her beloved husband of 44 years. They lived in New London, Connecticut and Vallejo, California before settling in Mobile, Alabama, where he worked for Ingalls Shipbuilding and she went to work for the University of South Alabama. She worked tirelessly as a secretary for the Head of the Communications Department from 1975 until she retired in 2005. She loved every minute of her work at the University and the interaction she had with the professors and students.
Several years ago she went on the trip of her lifetime to meet and visit with relatives in Italy.
She was a long time member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
She is predeceased by her husband Stan and survived by her two daughters, Christine (Mobile) and Lisa (Sarasota, FL), one brother, Robert (Karen) Gasperino of Las Vegas, NV and his son John (Mari) Gasperino of Annapolis, MD and his daughter Margaret Ann (David) Rosenlund of Stinson Beach, CA.
A special thank you, to Dr. Kristina Ray, and several special nurses, and staff who took such good care of her while she was in the hospital.
Visitation will be held Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 11am in the parlor of St. Paul's Episcopal Church followed by a memorial service at 12 pm in the small chapel. A graveside service will follow at Mobile Memorial Gardens.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests that memorials be made to either St. Paul's Episcopal Church: 4501 Old Shell Rd. Mobile, AL 36608; Project Purr P.O. Box 91057, Mobile, AL 36691 or the American Cancer Society.
Memorials may be sent to www.mobilememorialfunerals.com Funeral arrangements by Mobile Memorial Gardens Funeral Home.

Visitation

St Paul's Episcopal Church
4501 Old Shell Rd
Mobile, AL  36608
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
11:00 AM

Service

St. Paul's Episcopal Church
4501 Old Shell Rd
Mobile, AL  36608
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
12:00 PM

Cemetery

Mobile Memorial Gardens
6100 Three-Notch Road
Mobile, AL  36619

Memorial Contributions

St Paul's Episcopal Church
4501 Old Shell Rd
Mobile, AL  36608

Project Purr
PO Box 91057
Mobile, AL  36691

American Cancer Society