Henrietta Agnes Thompson "Jimmie" Abell

Services: A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 10:00 AM in St. John's Catholic Church Hollywood, MD with Fr. Raymond Schmidt officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation: The family will receive friends on Monday, June 20, 2011 from 5:00 PM until 8:00 PM in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home where prayers will be recited at 7:00 PM. Henrietta Agnes “Jimmie” Thompson Abell, 95, died June 17, 2011 at St. Mary’s Nursing Center in Leonardtown, MD. She was born in Hollywood, MD on April 16, 1916, the daughter of Maurice Chapman Thompson and Susan Brumbaugh Thompson. The youngest of nine, she was the last of her siblings to survive. Her brothers and sisters were Maurice C. Thompson, Jr. (Mary), Katherine S. Thompson, Elizabeth C. Spalding (Xavier), Upton B. Thompson (Miriam), Mary Ellen Angevine (George), James O. Thompson, Susan Claire Johnson (Joe) and Jane B. Garner (Edward). She graduated from Great Mills High School in 1934. She loved to hear from her classmates and enjoyed sharing memories with them when they held reunions at the Officer’s Club. She retired from St. Mary’s Hospital as a Head Ward Clerk after 15 years of service. The Hospital and the people that she worked with during those years held a special place in her heart throughout her life. However, her main occupation and calling in life was as a wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Grandma’s Sunday dinners kept family members involved with her and each other until she was well in her eighties. She was the wife of John Louis Abell, Jr. whom she married on April 13, 1936 at St. John’s Church in Hollywood, MD. They had five children, Margaret Ann “Peggy” Lacey (Francis), Elizabeth Louise “Betty Lou” Wathen (Richard), John Louis III “Jackie” (Gloria), Francis Floyd (Stephanie) and Linda Claire Kirby (Bill). She was predeceased by her husband, daughter Betty Lou, son Floyd and his wife Stephanie. She is survived by 15 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren and 5 great-great-grandchildren. She also had many nephews, nieces and friends whom she was very close to and meant so much to her throughout her life. She was a lifelong resident of Hollywood, MD until 2003 when she entered St. Mary’s Nursing Center. There she lived in comfort for the remaining years of her life. She will be missed. Memories of home grown vegetables from our Dad’s garden and the flowers she tended throughout the yard so many years ago remain with all of us to this day. In early summer when the cherry trees were full of fruit we would all gather to pick them, she made the very best cherry pies. Afghans are in all our houses, crocheted throughout her life. They keep us warm and cozy on chilly nights. Her love for a good game of cards (Pitch) was not only for the game itself, but for the company that it generated. The family will receive friends on Monday, June 20, 2011 from 5:00 PM until 8:00 PM in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home chapel where prayers will be recited at 7:00 PM. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 10:00 AM in St. John’s Catholic Church Hollywood, MD. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be Allen Lacey, John Louis Abell IV, Patrick Woodburn, Richard Wathen, Jr., Brian Allshouse and Steven Abell. Contributions in Memory of Henrietta Agnes “Jimmie” Thompson Abell may be made to St. Mary’s Nursing Center 21585 Peabody Streeet Leonardtown, MD 20650 , St. John’s Building Fund 43950 St. John’s Road Hollywood, MD 20636, Hollywood Volunteer Fire Dept. P.O. Box 7 Hollywood, MD 20636 and/or Hollywood Volunteer Rescue Squad P.O. Box 79 Hollywood, MD 20636.