Margaret Lutz
Margaret Lutz Obituary
Mrs. Margaret Ann Lutz passed away peacefully on Saturday December 28, 2024, at her home in Vaughan, Mississippi. Visitation will be on Tuesday, December 31st from 10:00 until 11:00 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Canton, Mississippi, with a funeral mass to follow.
Margaret Ann was born on April 26, 1928, in Yazoo City to William Bernard Steinriede and Katherine Lillian McGraw Steinriede. She graduated from St. Clara Academy in Yazoo City in 1946, where she was Valedictorian of her class. If you look on the back of a box of Mississippi Lemon Straws from Yazoo City, you will see a picture of young Margaret Ann and her cousin Mary Margaret Yerger. She then attended Mississippi State College for Women (now MUW) receiving her degree in Home Economics and making many lifelong friends. Beginning her career, she started work with the Mississippi Valley Gas Company, traveling and teaching Mississippians how to cook on their gas stoves.
Margaret Ann soon met Bill Lutz of Canton, Mississippi and they married in the fall of 1952 and settled in Yazoo City where they began their family. They eventually built a house on Easy Street. Margaret Ann managed her growing household of five sons and one daughter. In 1968 she and Bill moved the family to a farm in the Yazoo County countryside near Vaughan, Mississippi, where she lived until her passing.
Margaret Ann had a wonderful sense of humor, an infectious laugh, and firmly believed that if you do not have something nice to say, then do not say anything. She could always be counted on to provide entertainment at any gathering, regaling others with her tales of life on the farm, her childhood in Yazoo City, and her many travels. She could never stand in a waiting line, stroll through an airport, or shop in a new boutique without meeting a new “friend” and learning something interesting about them; information she would then pass on to her family at the next gathering. Margaret Ann was a voracious reader; curious and inquisitive all her life, and never ceasing to learn new things. While Margaret Ann loved traveling, her greatest joy was her family. She loved family gatherings and for many years she and Bill made a special effort to host all of their children, brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, and their families on the Fourth of July. When their children were young, Margaret Ann and Bill would often take the family for two to three week-long summer trips in their camper. Margaret Ann visited forty-eight states in her lifetime, including Alaska, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia. Her travels also took her to Rome, Paris, Montreal, the Mediterranean, and the Holy Land. She loved telling her many grandchildren and great grandchildren about her adventures. Margaret Ann was a faithful parishioner of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Canton, Mississippi and she witnessed many of her children and grandchildren baptized and married in her church. Until she was no longer able to attend, she was faithfully in “her pew” every week of her adult life. She was also knighted as a Lady in the Papal Order of The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem.
She was preceded in death by her husband Leo Hilton (Bill) Lutz, her parents, her brother William Bernard, Jr. and his wife Marilyn, her sister Mary Catherine and her husband John Grower, and her infant son Michael Francis Lutz.
Margaret Ann is survived by her daughter Katherine Maria Smith and husband Sam, sons, William Bernard, Joseph Hilton (Emily), John Stephen (Cathy), James Agustus (Jill), all of Madison and Thomas McGraw of Vaughan; grandchildren Elizabeth, Katherine, John, Sarah, Hilton, Wilson, Anna, Maggie, Ellie, and Ried and a host of great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins, and many friends, all of whom she loved dearly as they also loved her.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Memphis or Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Canton.
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