Cecilia Imelda Pincus, 84, passed away peacefully in her sleep at her home on Friday, June 2, 2017. Her husband, Richard Pincus, preceded her in death. She is survived by her twelve children and their spouses: Kathy Henley, William Pincus, Mary Adams, Loretta Scheetz, Teresa Ward, Alice Zischkau, Stephen Pincus, Joseph Pincus, Donald Pincus, Thomas Pincus, Janet Williams, and Michael Pincus, as well as her brother Michael Green, her sisters Agnes Cammack and Dolores Milmoe, and her sister-in-law Sue Smith. She also has forty-eight grandchildren, twenty great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. Of all of her accomplishments, she was proudest to share her faith in the Lord with her husband and all of her children.

Dolores and Phillip Green welcomed Cecilia into the world on September 8, 1932 in Washington, D.C. The third in line of the twelve Green children, Cecilia grew up in Washington D.C. on Quincy Street and then Newton Street. She attended Catholic University Campus Grade School and then Georgetown Visitation High. As an aside to her high school training, she received a scholarship to a summer program furthering her education in French at Laval University in Quebec where she was only allowed to speak French.

For her college education Cecilia first attended St. Catherine College in Pennsylvania, but then transferred to Catholic University where she met her future husband of 63 years, Richard Pincus while playing tennis. Quite the athlete she also swam, and played ping pong. Even after she became wheelchair bound she continued to swim winning medals in her 70s at the Senior Games.

Cecilia's Catholic faith guided every aspect of her life. She loved her church and her church family giving many years as a Sunday school teacher. She often reminded her children, her friends, and people she met that you had to live out your faith no matter what life circumstances you encounter. Often times living the faith meant that you would suffer, but you could offer up your own sufferings to God. She was a living example of faith to all she met.

Very active in the pro-life movement, Cecilia spent many years fighting for the unborn. She continued to hope and pray for a Constitutional Amendment to protect unborn children's rights to life.

In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Virginia Society for Human Life www.vshl.org or Saint Rose of Lima and the Korean Martyrs Catholic Church, Hampton, Virginia.