Dorothy Louise Farrell

Services: A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Monday, October 4, 2010 at 10:00AM in Holy Angels Catholic Church, Avenue, MD with Fr. William Gurnee officiating. Interment will follow in the Sacred Heart Catholic Church Cemetery, Bushwood, MD. Visitation: The family will receive friends on Sunday, October 3, 2010 from 2:00-5:00PM in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home chapel, Leonardtown, MD where prayers will be recited at 3:00PM. Dorothy Louise Farrell, 71, of Avenue, MD died September 29, 2010 at Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC. Born November 15, 1938 in Virginia, she was the daughter of the late Harvey Louis and Jessalyn M. Simpson. She was the loving wife of David A. Farrell, Sr. whom she married on November 15, 1983 in Leonardtown, MD. Mrs. Farrell is also survived by her children; Louis Nelson (Cooky) of Upper Marlboro, MD, Janet Ridgell (Thomas) of California, MD, stepchildren; Barbara Branch (Ray), Christine Hall (Donald), David Farrell (Denise), Helen Mitchell (Randell) and her grandchild Thomas M. Ridgell (Holly): step grandchildren Donald Hall, Jr., Charles Hall, Mark Hall, Ashley Mitchell and Michelle Branch; step great grandchildren Mersadys Allyssa Hall and Cameron Ehtan Hall. She is also survived by her siblings; Billie Jane Watson (Louis), W.H. Simpson (Ethel), Juanita Adams (Leon), Joyce Johnson (Marvin), Myrtle Wolfe (Jimmy) all of Virginia, her mother-in-law Alberta Farrell and sister-in-law Eleanor Norris (Wayne). She was preceded in death by her brother Norman Tinnell. Mrs. Farrell moved to St. Mary’s County in 1972 from Waldorf, MD. She worked at McKay’s for 14 years and Food Lion for 10 years as a cashier. Mrs. Farrell loved reading, yard sales and her puppies. The family will receive friends on Sunday, October 3, 2010 from 2:00 – 5:00 PM in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, Leonardtown, MD, where prayers will be said at 3:00 PM. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Monday, October 4, 2010, in Holy Angels Catholic Church, Avenue, MD, at 10:00 AM with Fr. William Gurnee officiating. Interment will follow in Sacred Heart Catholic Church Cemetery, Bushwood, MD. Pallbearers will be Thomas A. Ridgell, Jr., Thomas M. Ridgell, Donald Hall, Wayne Norris, Ronnie Lee Watson and Bobby Farrell. Honorary Pallbearers will be Jessica Norris, Kimberly Norris and Bobby Quade.