Eileen M. Fitzpatrick

Eileen M Fitzpatrick, of Pearl River, and Chestertown, New York, and Oldsmar, Florida died peacefully on Monday, January 18, 2021 at home in Oldsmar, Florida.  Mrs. Fitzpatrick, a retired Registered Nurse was 97 years of age.

Mrs. Fitzpatrick was born in Cranford, New Jersey on June 20, 1923 the oldest of seven children to Edward J Markey and Florence Brennan Markey.  She was a graduate of Cranford High School, and received her nursing degree from the St. Elizabeth’s Hospital School of Nursing.  Upon her graduation it marked the first Mother and Daughter to graduate from St. Elizabeth’s.

Mrs. Fitzpatrick served as a 2^nd Lieutenant in the United States Army Nursing Corp during World War II.  It was there that she met her future husband as he was one of her patients.  She married Thomas J Fitzpatrick at Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Bronx, New York on June 29, 1946, and honeymooned in the Adirondack Mountains, and Canada.   At that time, as a married woman she was then required to resign her commission from the Army.  They lived in the Bronx until 1976 when they moved to Pearl River, New York.  Mrs. Fitzpatrick continued working as a Registered Nurse at Westchester Square Hospital, Bronx, New York.  She retired in September 1989 after 39 years, 27 of which were in Labor and Delivery, and the final years in the Emergency Room.

In Pearl River, New York she was a parishioner at St. Margaret of Antioch Catholic Church.  She and her husband, together with her son Edward, built a log cabin home in the Adirondack Mountains on Loon Lake in Chestertown, New York. There she was a parishioner of St. John the Baptist Church, later renamed St. Isaac Jogues.  Together they enjoyed many happy years at the lake entertaining family and friends, and most importantly grandchildren.  She was a great cook known for so many wonderful dishes, and was especially lauded by her grandchildren for her beef stroganoff.

She is survived by her sons, Thomas of Oldsmar, Florida, and Edward of Palm Harbor, Florida, and her grandchildren in chronological order, Thomas, Elizabeth, Edward, Marta, Tara, Michael, and Michele, as well as 9 great grandchildren.  She is also survived by her brother James Markey of Point Pleasant, New Jersey, and sister-in-law Patricia Markey of Scotch Plains, New Jersey, as well as scores of nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her husband of 58 years Thomas J Fitzpatrick, her parents Edward and Florence, her great granddaughter Jacqueline Fitzpatrick, her brothers, Edward, and William, her sisters Patricia, Florence, and Mary Joan, her brothers-in-law James Fitzpatrick, Eugene Fitzpatrick, Edward Beadle, and Richard Gottlick, and her sisters-in-law Dorothy Fitzpatrick Mayers, Rita Fitzpatrick, Agnes Fitzpatrick, Shirley Markey, and Joan Markey.

A viewing will be held at 1:00 PM on Saturday, January 30, 2021 at Espiritu Santo Catholic Church, Safety Harbor, Florida followed by a Mass of the Resurrection at 2:00 PM.  All Covid19 requirements to include social distancing, and masks will be observed and required.

The services will be streamed on https://vimeo.com/503068256/7d052c8e16

Burial will be next to her husband in Chestertown, New York at a later date when the snow melts, and the ground thaws.

Arrangements in Florida are being handled by Veterans Funeral Care, Clearwater, Fl., and in New York by Barton-McDermott Funeral Home, Chestertown, NY.