A Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of Mrs. Lorene Goodrich Hart of Tampa who peacefully passed on to her eternal home on Friday, July 23, 2010, will be held on Saturday, July 31st, 10:00 a.m., St. Peter Claver Catholic Church, 1203 N. Nebraska Ave., Father Hugh Chikawe, pastor officiating. Interment will be in Rest Haven Memorial Park Cemetery. Lorene married Samuel Hart on January 7, 1956, to this union was born two sons, Eric and Mark Hart. She attended St. Peter Claver Catholic School from kindergarten to middle school and then graduated from Middleton High School. She followed her dream to become an educator by graduating from Morgan State College in Baltimore, MD, class of 1948. She then pursued and received her Master's Degree from Teacher's College of Columbia University in 1953. She taught school in Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tampa, Florida. She has been an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Tampa Alumnae Chapter. Her total years of active service with Delta Sigma Theta were 64 years. She was also a member of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) and served over 45 years. She was recently awarded the 2010 Mary McLeod Bethune Achievement Award by the NCNW. She also volunteered tirelessly for 29 years with the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay, Inc., working with the telephone Life-line and Elder Net. Mrs. Hart was afforded the opportunity to travel the world through her Delta connections and family reunions; traveling abroad to, Spain, England and Hawaii and numerous other states with the U.S. Mrs. Hart was a life-long member of St. Peter Claver Catholic Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Samuel Hart, parents, Banks Burr Goodrich and Mazie Carter Prince Goodrich; sister, Ernestine Sweeney, brother, Alvertus Prince and aunt, Fannie Coleman. She leaves to cherish her memories: sons, Mark S. Hart, Seffner, FL and Eric C. Hart and wife, Tamiko, Brandon, FL; grandsons, Mark Hart, II and Eric Hart, II; and many extended relatives in Tennessee, Illinois, Kentucky, Colorado, New Jersey and Virginia. The viewing will be held on Friday, July 30th, from 5 to 8 p.m. There will be a Catholic wake service from 6 to 7 p.m. The friends are asked to meet at the church on Saturday for the service.