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Irene Whitt has now gone to be with the Lord on Tuesday, August 12, 2014. She was born in Puebla, Mexico on February 16, 1937 to Guillermo Whitt and Amalia Malacara Whitt. She came to San Antonio when her family immigrated to Texas. Irene was a 1955 graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School. She received an Associate of Arts from San Antonio College, a Bachelor of Arts from St. Mary's University, a Master of Arts in Linguistics from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and a Juris Doctor from Texas Wesleyan University School of Law. She was admitted and qualified to practice as an attorney in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas and in the Supreme Court of the United States. In 2007, she served with the Peace Corps in Granada, Nicaragua. She continued doing what she loved best, practicing law, until her death. She loved politics. While in Massachusetts, she was elected as a Town Meeting Member in Shrewsbury, elected twice to the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee, and was delegate in 1976 and 1980 to the National Democratic Conventions. She served as precinct chair in Harris, Travis and Bexar Counties. She was given a bear hug by President Lyndon B. Johnson, shared raw peanuts with President Jimmy Carter and was a guest of Senator Edward M. Kennedy at Hyannis Port. While at the University of Texas, she sang with the Longhorn singers much to the amazement of her family. She swam in the Senior Olympics, always finished even if not in first place. Although she left teaching for law, she was initiated into the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Theta Beta chapter in 2009. She was a member of the Texas State Bar, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and the San Antonio Criminal Defense Association. She was a past member of National Education Association and Texas State Teachers Association. She is survived by her two sisters, Amalia Molly Montemayor and her husband, Dr. G. Montemayor and Aida Gallo and her husband Herbert Gallo; sister-in-law, Blanche Whitt;nephews Gilbert Michael Whitt, Daniel William Rodriguez, Steven Herbert Gallo, John Raymond Ray Rodriguez, Michael William Gallo and David Joseph Rodriguez, nieces Laura Ann Seiler, Sandra Kay Sandy Roney, Marcella Ann Marcy Slate and Patricia Lynn Guerrina of Austin, Texas; 12 great nieces and great nephews; as well as 2 great great nephews and great great niece. She enjoyed the camaraderie and haircuts from her brother-in-law, Herby Gallo. A Memorial Mass will be held at St. Matthew Catholic Church 10703 Wurzbach Road at 10:00 A.M. on Saturday, August 16, 2014. Contributions in her name can be made to American Cancer Society.

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Irene Whitt

February 16, 1937 - August 12, 2014