Visitation
June 3, 2010
6:00-7:30 P.M.
Location: Rausch Funeral Home - Owings, MD [Map]
Memorial Service
June 3, 2010
7:30 P.M.
Location: Rausch Funeral Home - Owings, MD [Map]
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Walter Maurice “Reece” Stickell, Sr., 71, of Florence, SC, formerly of Owings, MD passed away May 20, 2010 at the Florence Hospice. Reece was born October 29, 1938 in Washington, D.C. to Oscar and Mary Dorothy (Dix) Stickell. He was raised in Suitland, MD and graduated from Suitland High School, class of 1957. He married Rita Lee Olsen on August 27, 1966 and they lived and raised their family in Owings. Rita passed away in 1984, and Reece married Ursola Leeper in 1988, residing in Mechanicsville, MD until relocating to Florence, SC in 2005.
Reece was a member of Local 24, International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers, Washington-Baltimore area, and was employed as an insulator until his retirement in 1999 due to health concerns. In his leisure time Reece was involved in drag racing top fuel dragsters, restoring classic cars and street rods, coaching youth football, and serving as commissioner with the Dunkirk Warriors youth football program.
Preceded in death by his parents and by his first wife Rita, Reece is survived by his wife Ursola Stickell of Florence, SC; daughters Kimberly A. Whittington and husband Andrew of Owings and Mary M. Stickell of Chesapeake Beach; sons Walter M. Stickell, Jr. and wife Noelle of Huntingtown and William L. “Les” Stickell and wife Angie of Chesapeake, Beach; grandchildren Andrew and wife Lisa, Bobby, Nicholas, Jenna and Meghan Whittington, Stephen, Taylor, Patrick, Zachary, Abbigale, Haylee and Savannah Stickell, and great-grandchildren Gavin, Brody and Brooke Whittington; and by a brother Chuck Stickell and wife Louise of Leonardtown, MD.
Memorial Contributions
Expressions of sympathy in Mr. Stickell’s name may be made to the Burnett Calvert Hospice House, P.O. Box 838, Prince Frederick, MD 20678 or online at www. CalvertHospice.org
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