Obituary of Eloise Bennett Lievrouw

Eloise Bennett Lievrouw passed away Monday, April 14, 2025 at the age of 93.

Mass of Christian Burial: 11:00 a.m. Monday, April 28, 2025 in the Chapel of Holy Family Catholic Church.  The family will greet friends at a brief reception following the service.  Interment will be in Greenwood Memorial Park.

Memorials: In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be sent to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis TN 38105.

Ethel Eloise Bennett was born on November 18, 1931 to Idell and Charles Bennett of Albany, Georgia. She was the second of four sisters, Dorothy “Dot,” Eloise, Betty, and Margie. Eloise was a graduate of Albany High School, and worked as a bookkeeper for local businesses after graduation. Raised in the Southern Baptist church, as a young woman Eloise was a devoted member of her church choir, and was a lifelong music lover, particularly jazz, swing, and gospel choir. Later, she met Charles J. “Chuck” Lievrouw, an Air Force pilot trainee at Spence Air Base in nearby Moultrie, GA. They were married in 1952, and she converted to Roman Catholicism soon afterward.

 

Throughout Chuck’s career as an Air Force pilot, and then in the aircraft services industry, the couple moved to many locations across the United States, including Chuck’s home in Osage, IA; Topeka, KS; Lincoln, NE; Birmingham, AL; Dover, DE; Vacaville, CA; Rome, NY; and Lake Charles, LA. In 1965 they and their five children moved to Fort Worth when Chuck accepted an executive position with the aerospace services division of military contractor Dynalectron (later DynCorp). Fort Worth became the Lievrouw family’s hometown for the next 60 years.

 

Eloise and Chuck were longtime parishioners of Holy Family Church in Fort Worth, where she was an active volunteer in the 1960s and 70s, working especially with the parish’s Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD) catechism classes for children, the youth music group, and Holy Family elementary school, where the younger Lievrouw children were enrolled. She was also a volunteer for cultural institutions in Fort Worth, assisting curators at the Fort Worth Children’s Museum (now Fort Worth Museum of Science and History), and helping to organize fundraising events for the Texas Boys Choir. In the 1970s Eloise was also employed for several years as a real estate insurance manager for the Western Savings and Loan Association in Fort Worth.

 

Chuck Lievrouw retired from Dyncorp in the late 1990s, and died in 2018 at age 89. Eloise remained active, engaged, and independent until shortly before her death, but after a rich and eventful life Eloise Bennett Lievrouw died in Fort Worth on April 14, 2025, at the age of 93. She is survived by their five children and their spouses (Leah A. Lievrouw and Daniel Danzig, of Pasadena, CA; Charles D. “Chuck” Lievrouw, of Austin, TX; David Lievrouw, of Fort Worth; Donald and Ann Lievrouw, of San Antonio, TX; and Lynn [Lievrouw] and Ron Deyo, of Houston, TX), as well as four grandchildren (Leah G. Lievrouw, of Austin; Joe Lievrouw, San Antonio; and Cooper and Walker Deyo, Houston).