Doreen Renee McKean

Doreen was born on April 20, 1963 at the U.S. Naval Hospital Rota Spain. The first daughter of Edward E. Flamboe and Gertrude S. (Brawn) Flamboe. A daughter of a career Navy man, Doreen lived in many places and went to many schools, both public and private. These included Newport, RI; Long Beach, CA; San Diego, CA; Honolulu, HI; Horsham, PA; and Annapolis, MD. While in the Annapolis area she graduated from High School at Arnold Christian Academy, Arnold, MD. After graduation she went to work at the headquarters of a large insurance company and attended classes at Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD. Doreen, along with her parents were active in the ministry of Officer’s Christian Fellowship (OCF) to midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy. Doreen met her future husband, Thomas E. McKean through OCF during the summer of 1986 and they grew to be close friends. They started dating during an Easter retreat at the OCF retreat center at White Sulphur Springs, PA in March of 1988, and got engaged soon after Tom’s graduation from the Naval Academy (Class of 88) and commissioning as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S Marines. They were married at the Annapolis Evangelical Presbyterian Church, on March 4, 1989. Doreen followed Tom throughout his career in the Marine Corps Aviation at Quantico, VA; Pensacola, FL; Corpus Christi, TX; Pensacola, FL; Tustin, CA; and New River, NC. Tom left the U.S. Marine Corps at the end of 1999, to spend more time with his family, and they moved to Great Mills, MD, where Tom eventually a obtained Civil Service position at Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, MD. Doreen and her family became active in two churches in the area. Eventually settling at Lexington Park Baptist, where Doreen was instrumental in the church’s Daily Vacation Bible School, and served as a teacher in the church’s Pre-school. Doreen and her husband and four boys were also very active in the Great Mills High School’s Drama and Music programs, as well as the area’s Summer Stock program. She was known to decorate her class room to the hilt, as well as designing and helping build sets for the High School’s Drama and Music Programs. Her personal love was photography, and with that love and talent served her church, the area high school’s band and drama programs, including the areas Summer Stock Drama and Musical programs well. Doreen is survived by her husband, Thomas E. McKean, and their four boys: James F., Timothy C., Nathan W., and Sean J. McKean, of Great Mills, MD; her parents, Gertrude S. (Brawn) and Edward E. Flamboe, of Williamsburg, VA; and three sisters: Deirdra K. (Flamboe) Sanchez of Virginia Beach, VA, Kristin A. (Flamboe) Tidwell of Dahlgren, VA, and Sandra R. (Flamboe) Albert of California, MD. Her memorial service will be held at the Lexington Park Baptist Church on Monday, November 20, 2023, with public viewing at 3:00 pm and the memorial service at 5:00 pm. The service is to be followed by a pot luck meal and time of fellowship. A private burial service will take place on Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at Charles Memorial Gardens, Leonardtown, MD. In lieu of flowers, request donations be sent to: Care Net Pregnancy Care Center of Southern Maryland, P.O. Box 31, Lexington Park, MD 20653