- Date Of Birth: September 26, 1918
- Date Of Death: July 25, 2009
- State: Maryland
Details: Lorna Eileen Wootton, 90, of Pasadena, passed away on July 25, 2009 in Sudlersville, Md. She was born in Baltimore on Septenber 26, 1918. She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank Page Hughes and Ruth Richmond Hughes, of English Counsul; her younger sister, Dorothea Hughes Kroeger; and a brother, Calvin McPherson Hughes. Lorna left behind her husband, Calvin Leonard Wootton, of Pasadena; a son Michael Calvin Wootton of Kennedyville, Md.; a daughter Sharon Hughes Wootton of San Juan Island, Washington; a daughter-in-law Eugenia Cooper Wootton; a granddaughter Kathleen Wootton of Kennedyville and a grandson Devin Wootton of Easton, Md. and three nieces and nephews and their children. Lorna was a mother, homemaker, long-time 4-H leader, and secretary for Westinghouse and at Ft. Smallwood elementary school when it was located on Ft. Smallwood Rd. in Pasadena. She loved doing craft work and sewing for her family well into her late 80’s. She was a long time gardener, relishing the taste of her tomatoes, peppers, strawberries and lettuce. She and Calvin lived on their Magothy River property since 1946. And she looked forward to the traditional walk on the Ocean City boardwalk right after Christmas with her husband of 67 years. A member of the greatest Generation, Lorna survived the Depression and World War II, perfecting, with her husband, the art of use it up, wear it out and make it do. She had the discipline to save money even in the hardest of times, a trait that she instilled in her children. When she was in her teens she helped her father remake a canoe that was only a skeleton they had found on a beach; and loved sailing in her family’s sailboat, the Mona Marie, even if they had to bail a lot. During World War II, she worked at the Baltimore insurance company USF&G before taking a train, loaded with military personnel, to Seattle to see Calvin before he shipped out. She worked there and San Francisco during the war. Lorna loved tracing her family’s history, searching for family ties at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and in graveyards, courthouses and historical museums in Maryland and New Jersey. She could tell stories about family memorabilia, including the child’s couch that her father made for her and her sister in the early 1920s and a lamp post made by Calvin’s father for the family train garden. Lorna learned the basics of her computer in her 80s so that she could record many of those stories, leaving the gift of her memories. She won two bouts with cancer and wanted to live long enough to see her grandchildren graduate from college. She made the trip to Virginia in May to see her youngest grandchild cross the stage.
