Visitation
September 18, 2010
10:00-11:00 A.M.
Location: Friendship United Methodist Church [Map]
Funeral Service
September 18, 2010
11:00 A.M.
Location: Friendship United Methodist Church [Map]
Interment
Location: Friendship United Methodist Church Cemetery [Map]
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Elizabeth W. Windland, 96, a resident of the Spa Creek Center in Annapolis, MD since 2005 passed away September 14, 2010. Known as Granny to her family and friends, she was born Anna Eva Elizabeth Wells on September 18, 1913 at home near Parkers Creek in Deale, MD to Percy T. and Lillian Daugherty Wells. She moved with her family to Dunkirk as a child and later grew up on the family tobacco farm in Friendship. She attended the former Friendship and Tracey’s schools, and later met Hugh Windland, a US Navy serviceman stationed at the US Naval Academy. They were married in 1936 at the Emmanuel United Methodist Church parsonage in Friendship. She loved being a sailor’s wife and together they traveled to several military installations prior to WWII and in the years following. They were blessed with a son Hugh Windland, Jr. and settled in Friendship in 1949 where she remained until moving to Watergate Village apartments in Eastport in 1985. She had a lifelong love of travel and along with her sister had toured Europe with a musical group. She was an active member of Friendship United Methodist Church and later Eastport United Methodist Church during her time in Annapolis. She was also a member the Fleet Reserve and the Daughters of America. Upon moving to Eastport she joined the Charles Ballard Senior Center where she enjoyed exercise classes and group activities. She also joined Watergate Yacht Club. Elizabeth was known for her baking skills and at age 90 was still baking cookies, cherry pies, dinner rolls and sweet potato casseroles. She was thoughtful, colorful, charming and charitable to all who knew her.
Elizabeth was preceded in death by her beloved husband Hugh on May 24, 1970, and by a sister Alice Mae Wells and a brother James “Pete” Wells. She is survived by her devoted son Hugh Windland, Jr. and daughter-in-law Barbara Joan of Friendship, grandchildren Jeffrey Windland and wife Linda of Ashburn, VA and Kimberly Underwood and husband David of Largo, FL, great-grandchildren Megan and Erin Windland of Ashburn, VA and Brian and Kevin Underwood of Largo, FL, a sister Ruth McLeod of Augusta, GA and a sister-in-law Annie Laura Wells of Chesapeake Beach, MD.
Memorial Contributions
Expressions of sympathy in Elizabeth’s name may be made to Friendship United Methodist Church Building Fund, 22 West Friendship Road, Friendship, MD 20758.
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