“Scooter,” as her family called her, was born July 11, 1931, during the Great Depression. A time before electricity and indoor plumbing, when beds were carried outside on summer nights because sleeping beneath the trees was cooler. She and her older brother and sister shared a single bicycle—and somehow managed to ride it at the same time. Before “upcycling” was trendy, Lucy knew how many gingham-print cotton feed sacks it took to make a dress. Despite the hardships, Lucy remembered only good times.

After graduating from high school, Lucy followed her sister to St. Paul’s School of Nursing, where she began a 40-year nursing career. That journey brought her to University of Texas Medical Branch in 1953. During her decades at UTMB, she served as a labor and delivery nurse, Director of Pediatric Nursing, and administrative nursing liaison between purchasing and materials management. She worked in pediatric polio wards before vaccines were available and worked the iron lungs that saved children’s lives. She was trained in MEND (Military Education for National Defense) in the 1950s, and she served as essential staff during both Hurricanes Carla and Alicia.

It was at UTMB that she met a young hospital administrator, Silvio Jeffrey Pascal. Together they married and raised their family in Galveston. As a wife, Lucy supported numerous fundraising efforts for the Shriners Burns Institute. As a mother, she served as a Girl Scout leader and an active Ball High Band Booster. She joined other parents in founding the Academic Excellence Booster Club, an organization that continues to support students today. She accomplished all of this while steadily working toward her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree, which she proudly earned in 1980.

Throughout her life, Lucy loved to explore and would travel by car, train, plane or boat. She could recount every state and country she visited, and left behind dozens of photo albums documenting her adventures.

Lucy kept busy in the long retirement of an extended life. In Galveston, she volunteered with the Galveston Historical Foundation and the Ronald McDonald House. In North Texas, she volunteered at St. Thomas Church, Habitat for Humanity and the Bayless-Selby House Museum. She also participated in post-disaster recovery efforts in Galveston after Hurricane Ike and Joplin, Missouri, following the devastating F5 tornado there.

She spent the last 10 years of her life in her Galveston home enjoying word-find puzzles, taking ceramics classes, and, of course, sharing stories with family and friends.

She is reunited in eternal peace with her beloved husband, Silvio Jeffrey Pascal; her parents, Edward and Opal Jentgen; her brothers, Arnold Jentgen and Reuel Jentgen, her sister Lois Jentgen, Silvio’s parents and siblings, and other extended family whom she held very close.

She is survived by her daughter, Marianne Pascal; her son, Robert Pascal, and his wife, Stephanie; her three grandchildren, Sophie, Bennett, and River Pascal; and three generations of nieces and nephews.

Services will be held at 10 a.m. on July 10, 2026, at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Pilot Point, Texas, with burial to follow alongside her mother, father, sister and older brother. Memorials may be made to the St. Jude, Shriners Children’s Texas or to the charity of your choice.