Helen Rebecca Long

Services: A funeral service will be held on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 10:00 AM in Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, Mechnicsville, MD with Rev. Ann Strickler officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation: The family will receive friends on Monday, February 4, 2008 from 4:00-8:00 PM in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home where prayers will be said at 7:00 PM. Helen Rebecca Lee Long, 84 of Mechanicsville, MD died on February 1, 2008 at her residence. Born on January 21, 1924 in Oakville, MD she was the daughter of the late Myrtle Marie Curry Lee and Edward Newton Lee, Sr. She was preceded in death by her husband James Robert (Buddy) Long whom she married on August 31, 1946 at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Leonardtown, MD. She is survived by her children, Brenda Long (Peanut) Pruett and her husband Joe of Mechanicsville, MD, Bonnie Sue Abell and her husband Wallace of Hollywood, MD, and Jay Robert Long and his wife Kim of Mechanicsville, MD. She was the loving sister of Mary Lee Pilkerton, Edward Newton (Ike) Lee Jr., and John Kincaid (J.K.) Lee, all of Mechanicsville, MD. She was dearly loved by her five grandchildren; Jamie and April Abell of Hollywood, MD, Jesse Long of Mechanicsville, MD, Josh Pruett of Wake Forest, NC and Amy Lambert of Indian Head, MD and seven great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her siblings, Bertha Lee Russell and Robert Morris (Bobby) Lee. Mrs. Long enjoyed baking, gardening, country music, going out to eat and spending time with her many friends and family. A graduate of Margaret Brent High School “Class of 1941”, she headed off to Washington, DC after graduation to work for Garfinkles Department Store and then the newly formed Patuxent River Naval Air Station until her marriage in 1946. In later years she worked as a teacher’s aid at Mechanicsville Elementary School and as a food service worker at both Leonardtown High and Margaret Brent High Middle Schools. She also worked at DeLaBrooke Manor along with her late husband. The family received friends on Monday, February 4, 2008 from 4:00-8:00 PM in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home Chapel where prayers were be said at 7:00 PM. A funeral service was held on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 10:00 AM in Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, Mechanicsville, MD with Rev. Ann Strickler officiating. Pallbearers were Jamie Abell, Wallace Abell, Ralph Long, Jimmy Long, David Diehl and Josh Pruett. Contributions may be made to Hospice of St. Mary’s, P.O. Box 625, Leonardtown, MD and/or Mechanicsville Volunteer Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 552, Mechanicsville, MD 20659. Arrangements provided by Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home P.A.