Name: Memorial Gathering for Dr. Alan F. Lacy
Start: 2022-01-20T23:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-01-21T01:00:00.000Z
Location: James A. Dyal Funeral Home

Dr. Alan F. Lacy Summerville - Alan F. Lacy, Ph.D, 76, of Summerville, husband of Patricia A. Murray, was born into eternal life on Friday, January 14, 2022 at Summerville Medical Center, surrounded by family. Alan was born on January 29, 1945 in Bastrop, TX, son of the late Curtis R. and Margaret (Hogan) Lacy. Alan was known to his family as an academic, intelligent yet always learning, funny, but with a dry wit. Alan loved family. He was always involved in his children's and grandchildren's lives as much as possible. He remained close with his siblings and will be remembered fondly as a generous and loving husband, father, grandfather, and sibling. Alan received a Ph.D. from Cornell University and devoted his career to teaching. He retired in 2011 after a long and successful career as a German Professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, where he also served as the Chair of the Foreign Languages Department. Even after retirement, he maintained a strong fondness for the German program at the University. Dr. Lacy was a brilliant linguist, speaking numerous languages; he was gifted with computers often writing programs, including writing computer games for his children. Alan enjoyed travelling, both leading student groups in the German summer program during his career and for leisure with his family throughout his life. Survivors, in addition to his wife, Patricia, are: two children, Jennifer (Bryon) Burbage of Charleston and Geoffrey (Callie) Lacy of Green Bay, WI; five grandchildren, Lindsay Burbage, Lacy Burbage, Leah Burbage, Wyatt Lacy and Shannon Lacy; four step-children, Shawn (Theresa) Alpert of Leander, TX, Shannon (Lynn) Alpert of Wappingers Falls, NY, Lien (Robert) Moorehead of Billerica, MA, and Kay Alpert of Arlington, VA; step grandchildren, Michael Alpert, DeAnna Alpert, Katrina Alpert, Erin Alpert, Sarah Alpert, and Paul Gauthier; siblings, Katherine (Lee) Turrell and Curtis R. (Virginia) Lacy, III; brother-in-law, Leo Cornelius; and many loved nieces and nephews. In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by his infant daughter, Jeannine Marie, and by his sister, Mary Ellen Cornelius. A gathering of family and friends will be held on Thursday January 20, 2022 from 6 o'clock to 8 o'clock at James A. Dyal Funeral Home. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Friday, January 21, 2022 at 1 o'clock at St. John the Beloved Catholic Church, 28 Sumter Ave., Summerville, SC 29483. Rite of Committal with Final Commendation will follow at Mepkin Abbey, 1098 Mepkin Abbey Rd., Moncks Corner, SC 29461. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Marquette University German Excellence Fund to support the German program that Alan cared so much about. A memorial message may be written to the family by visiting our website at www.jamesadyal.com. ARRANGEMENTS BY JAMES A. DYAL FUNERAL HOME, 303 SOUTH MAIN STREET, SUMMERVILLE, SC 29483 (843)873-4040. To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of Dr. Alan F. Lacy please visit our Sympathy Store. Visit our guestbook at legacy.com/obituaries/charleston

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Published by Charleston Post & Courier from Jan. 15 to Jan. 16, 2022.

Memories and Condolences
for Alan Lacy

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3 Entries

David Tanner

February 14, 2023

I am saddened by finding this; did not know until today. (February 2023)

I met Alan in September 1962, when we both arrived at the University of Virginia to start our first year there. We were both lucky enough to be invited to join the Echols Scholars. (Actually, Alan was not lucky; he was brilliant and Virginia was lucky to get him to go there.) The Echols group got a bit of advanced placement. More importantly, we made friends for life there. Alan's room was right across the hall from me. We hung out, despite our different majors, for 4 years. We shared a dorm suite in second and third year.

Then, in 1967 we both entered Cornell, a year after graduating Virginia. (Alan spent that year as a Fulbright scholar in Germany. He had great stories about that year, including the fact that his host family used the pigs and cows to heat the house during the cold winter.)

After he took the job at Marquette, our family would visit his in Wisconsin (Watertown Planck Road) on our way to and from Oshkosh. He went with me a few times to the EAA convention.

Good times for many years. I am sorry that he has left us.

David Tanner. Virginia 1966, Cornell 1972.

Ed & Fran Lopata

January 17, 2022

Dear Pat, Eddie and I were very shocked and saddened to hear of Alan's passing.

Our sincere sympathy, prayers and thoughts are with you and your families.

Rosanna Hamm

January 16, 2022

May God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.

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