Visitation
August 1, 2010
2:00-4:00 & 7:00-9:00 P.M.
Location: Rausch Funeral Home - Owings, MD [Map]
Funeral Service
August 2, 2010
11:00 A.M.
Location: Friendship United Methodist Church [Map]
Interment
Location: Friendship United Methodist Church Cemetery [Map]
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Alice Jane Greenwell, 84, a longtime resident of Pig Point in Lothian, MD passed away July 27, 2010 at the Mandrin Chesapeake Hospice House in Harwood, MD. Alice Jane was born November 5, 1925 in Lower Marlboro, MD to Everett W. and Bess McFarland Armiger. She moved with her family at age six to Fairhaven, MD and attended Tracey’s School and graduated from Southern Sr. High School in Lothian, MD, class of 1943. She was employed as an editorial and cartographic clerk with the US Census Bureau in Suitland, MD. She married James Luther Greenwell on July 6, 1946 and they lived in Pig Point. Upon the birth of her daughter in 1952 she became a homemaker until later working as a bookkeeper for her brother’s commercial appliance company. Alice Jane was a lifelong faithful member of Friendship United Methodist Church where she was a Sunday school teacher, was active in the Women’s Society, and assisted at church suppers and functions. She crocheted Bible bookmarks in the shape of a cross for all the Sunday school students when they reached the age of eight. She enjoyed flowers, cooking and traveling with the Galesville seniors group. She was known for baking and decorating cakes for her family and friends for their birthdays and at other times of celebration.
Alice Jane was preceded in death by her husband Luther Greenwell on August 6, 1975, and by her brother Everett W. Armiger, Jr. She is survived by her daughter Debra G. Chaney and husband Richard of Lothian; granddaughter Jillian E. “Jill” Chaney of Lothian; and by a sister Florence June Catterton of Annapolis, MD.
Memorial Contributions
Expressions of sympathy in Alice Jane's name may be made to the Voices in Praise Choir at Friendship Church, P.O. Box 72, Friendship, MD 20758.
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