Geneva H. (Izbicki) Wilcox

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Geneva H. (Izbicki) Wilcox, 89, of Warwick, a homemaker, died Thursday, May 21, 2015 at Kent Hospital. She was the beloved wife of the late Charles W. Wilcox.

She was born on May 31, 1925 in South Kingstown. Geneva was employed as a claims processor for the RI Department of Employment Security until retiring.

She is survived by her devoted children: Judith March and her husband, Ken, Raymond and his wife, Mary Anne, Charles, Jr. and his wife, Cheryl, William, Richard, Paul and his wife, Louise, and James Wilcox; a brother, Fred Izbicki; she was the mother-in-law of Ginny Wilcox; the grandmother of twelve beloved grandchildren: Donovan, Jason, Michael, Nikki, Becky, Christopher, Craig, Shannon, Jonathan, Amy, Kyle and Lindsay; and three cherished great-grandchildren: Olivia, Oliver and Audrey. She was the mother of the late Donald Wilcox. She was predeceased by eight siblings.

Her Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday, May 29, 2015 at 10:30 a.m. in St. Gregory the Great Church, 360 Cowesett Road, Warwick. Relatives and friends are invited and may call at the church from 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Entombment will follow in Rhode Island Veterans Cemetery, Exeter.

In lieu of flowers, gifts in her memory may be made to: RI Community Food Bank, 200 Niantic Ave., Providence, RI 02907. Funeral arrangements entrusted to the Urquhart-Murphy Funeral Home, 800 Greenwich Ave., Warwick, RI. www.murphyfuneralhomes.org