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Dorothy Louise Ordwein 1914 - 2009

Dorothy Louise Ordwein of Lusby, Calvert County, Maryland USA was born on September 15, 1914 at Washington City, District Of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States in Washington City, District Of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States to Phillip Louis Ordwein and Ora Rebecca (Tipton) Ordwein. She had a sister Phyllis Lucille (Ordwein) Carey. Dorothy Ordwein died at age 94 years old on March 20, 2009 at Asbury Methodist Home in Solomon's, and was buried circa 2010 at Cove Point in Lusby.

Dorothy Louise Ordwein
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Cove Point in Lusby, Calvert County, Maryland 20657, USA
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September 15, 1914
Washington City, District Of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States in Washington City, District Of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States, Maryland, USA
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Asbury Methodist Home in Solomon's, Calvert County, Maryland, 20688, USA
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  • 09/15
    1914

    Birthday

    September 15, 1914
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    Washington City, District Of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States in Washington City, District Of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States, Maryland USA
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  • Ethnicity & Family History

    German, English

  • Nationality & Locations

    United States

  • Early Life & Education

    University of Maryland, BS,,,,,Scarritt College (Methodist Missionary)

  • Religious Beliefs

    Maryland

  • Military Service

    None

  • Professional Career

    Lifelong educator, coach, Civil and church leader, a force to be reckoned with

  • Personal Life & Family

    Strongly active in too many to list: United Methodist Church (Baltimore Conference) [ twice served as President of Board of Child Care], seminal in the Church camping ministry [deeply involved in establishing Manidokan and West River camps and mentoring their directors], seminal in establishing the Calvert Marine Museum and serving as amateur Chesapeake naturalist and longest-serving docent, twice elected one of "Maryland's Most Beautiful People" by her multitudinous friends and colleagues. I have never seen a more packed full scheduling daybook, even at age 90 she had meetings, conferences, workshops, training sessions to lead or contribute to, three -four-five a DAY! A dynamo of Service to others.
  • 03/20
    2009

    Death

    March 20, 2009
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    stroke/aphasia/hospice
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    Asbury Methodist Home in Solomon's, Calvert County, Maryland 20688, USA
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    circa 2010
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    Cove Point in Lusby, Maryland 20657, USA
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    SoMdNews.com ……………………………………………………………Friday, March 27, 2009 Dorothy Louise Ordwein, 94, Solomons Dorothy Louise Ordwein, 94, of Solomons, formerly of Lusby died March 20, 2009, at the Asbury-Solomons Retirement Home. She was born Sept. 15, 1914, to the late Phillip Louis Ordwein and Ora Tipton Ordwein. She graduated Hyattsville High School in 1931. She graduated from the University of Maryland College Park with a bachelor's degree in home economics and physical education and Scarritt College in Nashville, Tenn., with a master's degree in secondary education. She was a teacher in Calvert County, Prince George's County and Baltimore city schools. She was an active member at Olivet United Methodist Church and was a member of the Calvert County Retired Teachers Association, the Baltimore-Washington Conference, United Methodist Church Retreat and Camping Ministries and the Calvert Marine Museum. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her sister, Phyllis Ordwein Carey. She is survived by her niece, Rebecca Carey of Pennsylvania; and cousin, Anne Carey of Virginia. Memorial services will be held April 3 at 11 a.m. at the Olivet United Methodist Church in Lusby. Memorial contributions can be made to the Olivet United Methodist Church, 13575 Olivet Road, Lusby, MD 20657 or Retreat and Camping Ministries, P.O. Box 429, Churchton, MD 20733. Bugeye Times (2009), Quarterly Newsletter of the Calvert Marine Museum (A Division of Calvert County Government) and the Calvert Marine Museum Society, Inc. (ISSN 0887-651X) 410-326-2042 FAX 410-326-6691 TDD 410-535-6355 Museum Store: 410-326-2750 www.calvertmarinemuseum.com MUSEUM LOSSES: TWO LONG-SERVING VOLUNTEERS Two of the museum’s longest-serving volunteers died in March within a week of each other: Dorothy “Dot” Ordwein and Ruth Showalter. Dot Ordwein’s relationship with CMM goes back to the days of the museum’s first one-room building on Solomons Island in the early 1970s, but her most active efforts were in the later 1970s after the museum moved into the old Solomons School. Here she worked with other volunteers to start and manage the first museum store; to begin the canoe club, the fossil club, and the woodcarvers club; to develop a discovery room; and to organize and assist with educational programs for both school-age children and adults. As the museum grew, she concentrated her efforts in the educational programs, but by the 1990s she directed her attention to training museum volunteers, serving as president of the Volunteer Council in 1993, and helping with volunteer orientation programs up until the early years of the new century service of over thirty years. Her volunteer interests were not limited to CMM. After a career as a teacher, she was active in the local Retired Teachers Association, the Calvert Hospice, and Project Echo. Perhaps even more important to her was work with children through her church, locally and in youth camps in several places in Maryland. For all these activities Dot was named by the county and state in 1996 as one of “Maryland’s Most Beautiful People,” with honors in a ceremony in Annapolis. Again, in 2008, Dot was honored by the state when she was inducted into the Maryland Senior Citizens Hall of Fame.
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Dorothy Louise (Ordwein) Ordwein
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08/26/2018
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Rebecca Carey
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08/26/2018
Dottie Ordwein, age 94 and going strong; her just completed effort: getting the new dining hall built at West River Methodist Camp.
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Rebecca Carey
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Dottie was a force of nature, an unrelenting dynamo of lifelong service, pouring herself out for others. Egoless, but hyper-focused on the goal. Once she took up a cause, she would enlist (make that insist) and motivate the involvement of many many others and go on as a collective effort to engender real, positive, useful, practical, change in the world. She led from behind and was enormously respected and loved by those with whom she served. She got the best out of everybody she touched. I never knew just how deep and wide her influence was until her health failed and folks began visiting to pay their respects in her final months. There were so many people all day every day asking the nurse's station to buzz them in, that the Home just threw up their hands and left the door open. The count of her visitors in three months surpassed by orders of magnitude any prior numbers. Thousands, literally. She was our family matriarch, my maternal aunt and fairy godmother, and I loved her dearly, disagreed (as a young adult) with her a lot (she was very particular about things), and I miss her every day. I know she's now in heaven organizing the angels into work groups and outreach missions, whatever is needed, whether they meant to sign up for it or not!
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Ordwein, Olga (Nov 28, 1900 - Jun 13, 1989) Ordwein, Jennie (Aug 16, 1889 - Apr 1971) Ordwein, Carl (Oct 20, 1909 - Apr 1969) Ordwein, Catherine (Aug 15, 1917 - May 1986) Ordwein, Charles (Sep 21, 1894 - Feb 1970) Ordwein, Daisy (Aug 6, 1890 - Mar 1980) Ordwein, Elizabeth (Sep 15, 1881 - Mar 1965) Ordwein, Dorothy (Sep 15, 1914 - Mar 20, 2009) Ordwein, Russell (Aug 2, 1901 - Apr 1986) Ordwein, Charles (Oct 18, 1877 - Jan 1963)
Ordwein, Charles (Jan 4, 1919 - Nov 5, 1998) Ordwein, Lillian (Aug 18, 1912 - Feb 1, 1995) Ordwein, Woodrow (Mar 4, 1913 - Aug 27, 1998) Ordwein, Ora (Sep 6, 1893 - Apr 1978) Ordwein, Woodrow (Born circa 1913) Ordwein, Charles (Born circa 1919) Ordwein, Phillip (Feb 17, 1891 - Nov 1945) Ordwein, Ora (Sep 6, 1893 - Apr 12, 1978) Carey, Phyllis (Mar 8, 1930 - Aug 4, 1973)
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