Visitation
February 24, 2011
4:00-7:00 P.M.
Location: Rausch Funeral Home - Owings, MD [Map]
Funeral Service
February 25, 2011
11:00 A.M.
Location: Rausch Funeral Home - Owings, MD [Map]
Interment
Location: Hillcrest Memorial Gardens [Map]
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Ivyl Virginia Rowland, 86, of Harwood, MD passed away February 20, 2011 at the Mandrin Chesapeake Hospice House. She was born Oct. 10, 1924 at the former Emergency Hospital in Annapolis, MD to Harvey Fenton Sr. and Myrtle Virginia (Carr) Myers. She was raised in the Hillsmere and Parole communities in Annapolis and attended Germantown Elementary and Annapolis High School. She was a devoted homemaker, wife and grandmother, and also was employed as a school bus driver for the Jones Bus Company in Annapolis. She had also worked at the Hickory Farms store in the former Parole Plaza shopping center. She was a member of the Annapolis V.F.W. Ladies Auxiliary and a member of the former Edwards Chapel United Methodist Church in Parole, where she was active in the Women’s Society. In her leisure time, Ivyl enjoyed gardening and canning, collectables, crocheting and playing bingo. She married Arthur Martin Rowland on July 29, 1950 and they lived and raised their family in Loretta Heights in Annapolis from 1960 until moving to Harwood in 1988.
Ivyl was preceded in death by her husband, Martin, who died Oct. 15, 1996; a son, Stanley M. “Stan” Rowland; her parents, Harvey Sr. and Myrtle Myers; a brother, Harvey Fenton Myers Jr.; and a sister, Shirley A. Myers. She is survived by three sons, Richard D. “Rick” and wife Pat Rowland of Galesville, Donald K. “Don” and wife Kay Rowland of Mayo, and Wayne C. and wife Barbara Rowland of Galesville; her late son Stan’s best friend and companion Kathie Sulick of Annapolis; six grandchildren Heather Lamb, Jennifer Rowland, Elizabeth Johnson, Stephanie Legacy, Kelly Pearce and Carly Waple; eight great-grandchildren Justin, Emily, Abby, Emma, Ben, Grace, Nick and Drew; two brothers, John A. “Buck” Myers of Satellite Beach, Fla. and Martin H. “Marty” Myers of Aiken, S.C.; and four sisters, Irene E. White of Annapolis, Myrtle M. Rausch of Owings, Beverly L. Ames of Annapolis and Joan C. Myers of Baltimore.
Ivyl’s family will receive friends from 4 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, February 24 at Rausch Funeral Home, P.A., 8325 Mt. Harmony Lane, Owings, where funeral services and a celebration of her life will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, February 25, 2011. Interment will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Annapolis.
Memorial Contributions
Expressions of sympathy in Ivyl’s name may be made to benefit the Mandrin Chesapeake Hospice House c/o Hospice of the Chesapeake, 445 Defense Highway, Annapolis, MD 21401
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