Mrs. Mary Ann Fuss

Mary Ann Paris Fuss was born on January 19,1943 in Johnson City, TN and died on April 24, 2014. She was the daughter of Robert A. Paris and Nancy McLaughlin Paris and grew up in Elizabethton, TN. She graduated from Elizabethton High School in 1961 and attended Nazareth College in Bardstown, KY for three years prior to entering the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. She complete her B.S. degree in biology and work as a medical technologist at the Catholic hospital in Louisville, KY. After fulfilling her temporary vows and leaving her religious community in 1968, she moved to her parents' home in Atlanta and worked in the laboratory at both St. Joseph's Hospital and West Paces Ferry Hospital until married her husband LeRoy Fuss in 1972. Ann and LeRoy have two children, David and Laura. Ann loved and was devoted to Laura's children Charlotte (12), Mary (8) and Jack (6). She loved sewing and knitting for them. Ann's faith was always important to her and gave her strength. Her well-worn breviary and Bible are testaments to her deep prayer life. Ann and LeRoy are active members of St. Thomas Aquinas parish in Alpharetta, GA where Ann especially enjoyed the classes on Scripture. Ann's volunteer work at the parish was counting the weekly collection and she considered her coworkers her close friends. After her husband and family, Ann's great love was animals. She loved her pets and enjoyed the wildlife in the area, especially the birds in her yard. For many years, Ann maintained a vegetable garden which thrived under her green thumb. Ann was a beautiful seamstress and knitter but her great gift was quilting and every stitch she did by hand. These lasting pieces of art will long remind us of Ann's own beauty and we will cherish them. Ann is survived by her husband LeRoy and their children David Martin Fuss (wife Julia) and Laura Ann Fuss (life partner Jack Bell) and their children Charlotte, Mary and Jack, and her brother James R. Paris of Raleigh, NC (wife Barbara) and her sister Jane (life partner Cathy) also of Raleigh, NC as well as nephews Mark and Michael Paris and niece Sara Paris Edwards. In lieu of flowers, please make a charitable contribution to Habitat for Humanity, North Central Georgia.

Mrs. Mary Ann Fuss

January 19, 1943 - April 24, 2014