Visitation
May 5, 2011
11:00 A.M.-1:00 P.M.
Location: Rausch Funeral Home - Owings, MD [Map]
Funeral Service
May 5, 2011
1:00 P.M.
Location: Rausch Funeral Home - Owings, MD [Map]
Interment
Location: Woodfield Cemetery [Map]
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Alice Thelma Howes, known as Thelma, 91, of Deale Beach, MD passed away May 2, 2011 at Calvert Memorial Hospital in Prince Frederick, MD. The oldest of five children, Thelma was born December 21, 1919 in Annapolis, MD to James E. and Ruth (Revell) Ford. Thelma was raised in the Deale area until the death of her father at age eleven. She then went to live with her grandparents, James B. and Alice Dove Revell in Fairhaven, where they owned and operated the Revell Store and Post Office. Thelma attended Southern High School in Lothian, MD. She married Milton M. Howes on December 28, 1936 and they lived in Broadwater before moving by boat across the creek to Deale Beach, where she lived the rest of her life. Thelma was a mother of five who also worked in health care in both the public and private sector. She then became a fixture at Pat’s Country Bakery in Churchton, MD, where for thirty five years she made the donuts, cakes, pies and breads. She was proud to have been chosen to make President Ronald Reagan’s Birthday cake. She was a member of Friendship United Methodist Church, and in her leisure time, Thelma loved to read, play the slots, fish, crab, and watch sports on TV. She was a lifelong Redskins and Orioles fan.
In addition to her parents, Thelma was preceded in death by her husband, Milton “Mutt” Howes, son Robert “Buzzy” Howes, daughter Shirley M. Howes, grandson Joseph Buckler, a brother James E. Ford, Jr., and a sister Mary Anna Barbor. Thelma is survived by her daughters Alice M. Van Jeune of Deale and Mary Kidd Raley and her husband Larry of Lothian, son John C. Howes and his wife Renee of Huntingtown, a brother Calvin “Mac” Ford of Baltimore and a sister Elizabeth Phipps of Lower Marlboro. She is also survived by eleven grandchildren, seventeen great grandchildren and five great-great grandchildren.
Memorial Contributions
Expressions of sympathy may be made in Thelma’s name to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Judes Place, Memphis, TN 38105
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