Shirley Ann Forsythe

Services: A Memorial Mass will be celebrated on Saturday, August 17, 2013 at 10:00AM in Our Lady's Catholic Church, Medley's Neck, with Father Larry Young officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Shirley Ann (Stone) Forsythe, a native of St. Mary’s County and a resident Torrance, California for over 50 years, passed away on July 5, 2013 in Torrance after a battle with cancer. She was born on October 24, 1940 at Medley's Neck in Leonardtown to Joseph Vernon and Mary Mildred Stone. She married Eugene Forsythe on March 21, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada and then settled in Torrance, CA. She worked as a waitress, for the phone company, for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles at St. Catherine Labouré and then for Bishop Montgomery High School, where she was the manager of the snack bar for 18 years, retiring in 2006. She loved to cook and hosted many wonderful gatherings for friends and family, including an annual family “taco night” in Southern Maryland. She was especially happy to be a grandmother and took great joy in all the things her grandchildren accomplished. She was a much beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend to so many. She was preceded in death by her parents; her brother Joseph "Jack" Stone; and her sister Barbara Logan. She is survived by her husband Gene Forsythe; her son Robert (Laura) Forsythe of Ladera Ranch, CA; her daughter Cynthia (Donald) DeLay of Torrance, CA; her grandchildren Megan and Jack Forsythe, and Lucas DeLay; her siblings Charles (Bertie) Stone of Welcome, MD; Jim (Dotty) Stone, Jean (George) Nelson, and John Stone, all of Leonardtown, MD; Linda (Jimmy) Oliver of Mechanicsville, MD; and Doris (John Louis) Bean, of California, MD; and dozens of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. She will be missed forever. A Memorial Mass will be held at Our Lady’s Catholic Church in Medley’s Neck on Saturday, August 17, 2013 at 10:00AM, with Father Larry Young officiating. interment will follow in the church cemetery. Arrangements provided by the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown, MD Additional services were held in Torrance, CA in July. An online obituary, including memorial video, can be viewed at http://www.lafuneral.com/obituary/Shirley-Ann-Forsythe/Torrance-CA/1223448