Obituary of Lucille Chatmon

Born Lucille Rosetta Sigler to the late Ida Mae Olds and Willie James Sigler on, September 12, 1944, in Selma, Alabama. Lucille passed away suddenly on January 5, 2023, in Syracuse, NY at the age of 78 years old. She was known to close family and friends as Gail. After completing Tyler Union High School, she became a trailblazer for her family by being the first of ten siblings to move away from home and go to Boston, MA in 1963. To accompany her, she later brought her siblings with her and encouraged them to pursue a wider range of opportunities away from home. While visiting family in Selma, she met Johnny Chatmon whom she later married and moved to Syracuse, NY with. After his death, she met B.C. Reed of Conway, Arkansas, who passed in August of 2000, with whom she shared two children with. Lucille was employed by Home Health Aides of CNY until April 1995 when she retired. Lucille loved working in home health due to her passion to help people and to provide genuine care and comfort onto others. After retiring, you could find Lucille enjoying the company of her siblings, but there was no better joy for her than spending time with her grandchildren. Lucille was preceded in death by her parents: Willie James Sigler and Ida Mae Sigler; her brothers: Ernest Lee Sigler and Walter Thigpen; and her sisters: Willie Mae Sigler and Ruthie Mae Sigler. She is survived by her two beloved children, Tasha Reed of Atlanta, Georgia, and Antawan (Tamba) Reed of DeWitt, NY. She leaves behind four sisters: Gussie Sigler of Syracuse, NY, Bernice Johnson, Linda Thigpen, and Carolyn Sigler, all of Selma, AL; five brothers: Robert Sigler of Syracuse, NY, Joseph (Dot) Sigler of Tampa, FL, Otis (Ann) Thigpen, Morris Sigler, and Roosevelt (Manee) Sigler, all of Selma, AL. . Lucille also leaves behind her grandchildren: Chalet, Antawan, Nyshier, Taifere, Daetwan, Laila, Tristan, Nahviere, Skai, Virginia and Hayden, and her great-grandchildren: Logan, Zuri, and Leilani. Along with a host of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.