Blanche Margaret Hedges
1900 - 1998 (98 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
Generation: 3
1. Blanche Margaret Hedges was born on 3 Apr 1900 in Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier County, West Virginia; died on 25 Jul 1998 in Ronceverte, Greenbrier County, West Virginia; was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Ronceverte, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Notes:
Obituary:
Blanche H. Sherwood. RONCEVERTE - Blanche Hedges Sherwood, 98, of Ronceverte died July 25, 1998, in Shenandoah Manor, Ronceverte, after a long illness.
She was a retired schoolteacher, member of Trinity United Methodist Church, Ronceverte, and a charter member of Ronceverte Woman's Club. Surviving: daughter, Margaret Lee Smith of Montgomery; son, Lawrence F. Sherwood of Oakland, Md.; seven grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren. Service will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Trinity United Methodist Church, Ronceverte, with the Rev. Mark Flynn officiating. Burial will be in River View Cemetery, Ronceverte. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today at Wallace & Wallace Funeral Home, Ronceverte. Charleston Gazette, Charleston, WV. Obituary published 27 July 1998. Published on-line 5 December 2003.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136602331/blanche-margaret-sherwoodBlanche married Lawrence Franklin Sherwood on 9 May 1923 in Smoot, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Lawrence was born on 17 Apr 1899 in Greenbrier County, West Virginia; died on 14 Oct 1995 in Ronceverte, Greenbrier County, West Virginia; was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Ronceverte, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Margaret Lee Sherwood
was born on 27 Apr 1924 in Greenbrier County, West Virginia; died on 6 Nov 2015 in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia; was buried in body donated to medical science. - 3. Lawrence Franklin Sherwood was born on 13 Dec 1925 in Ronceverte, Greenbrier County, West Virginia; died on 6 Sep 2019 in Garrett County, Maryland.
- 2. Margaret Lee Sherwood
Generation: 2
2. Margaret Lee Sherwood (1.Blanche1) was born on 27 Apr 1924 in Greenbrier County, West Virginia; died on 6 Nov 2015 in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia; was buried in body donated to medical science. Notes:
Margaret Lee Smith, 91, of Montgomery, died Nov. 6, 2015 at Eastbrook Center.
She was the daughter of Lawrence and Blanche Sherwood of Ronceverte. Margaret was a registered RN and received her training at Charleston General Hospital, where she worked until she was married.
Surviving are her brother; her son; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
As she had requested, her body was donated to the WVU Medical School in Morgantown.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations in her memory go to the Montgomery United Methodist Church, 319 5th Ave., Montgomery, WV 25136.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154937039/margaret-lee-smith
Body donated to medical science, Specifically: WVU Medical School.Margaret married James William Smith in 1936 in Fayette County, West Virginia. James was born on 28 Aug 1912 in Montgomery County, West Virginia; died on 1 Mar 1972 in Fayette County, West Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Lawrence Franklin Sherwood (1.Blanche1) was born on 13 Dec 1925 in Ronceverte, Greenbrier County, West Virginia; died on 6 Sep 2019 in Garrett County, Maryland. Notes:
Rev. Dr. Lawrence Franklin Sherwood, Jr., 93, of Oakland died on Friday, September 6, 2019, at Garrett Regional Medical Center.
Born on December 13, 1925, in Ronceverte, WV, he was the son of the late Lawrence Franklin and Blanch Margaret (Hedges) Sherwood.
He was a graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College, where he obtained his Doctor of Divinity degree, and the Garrett United Theological Seminary.
Dr. Sherwood was ordained an Elder in the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church in 1950. He served Main Street UMC in Petersburg, WV, Trinity UMC in Glenville, WV, St. Paul's UMC in Oakland, MD, and Trinity UMC in Bluefield, WV.
He was also Superintendent of the then Lewisburg (now Greenbriar) District and Grace UMC in Keyser, WV.
He had served on various UMC Conference and District Committees.
A Methodist historian, Dr. Sherwood has written numerous articles on Methodist history, especially West Virginia Methodism and Bishop Francis Asbury and was the recipient of the Ministry of Memory Award from the Historical Society of the United Methodist Church.
Active in his community, he was secretary of the Hospice of Garrett County Board of Directors, a member of the Board of the Garrett County Historical Society, a 50-year member of the Oakland Lodge No. 192 AF&AM, and the Oakland-Mountain Lake Park Lions Club.
He is survived by his loving wife, Hazel (Steiding) Sherwood, to whom he was married on December 29, 1947; children, Rebecca Fallon and husband Fleming, John Sherwood and wife Debbie, Martha Ognibene and husband Bart Thompson, and Mary Dreibelbis and husband Harold; eleven grandchildren; and one great grandchild.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a daughter, Judith Susan Sherwood Schaumburg and a sister, Margaret Lee Sherwood Smith.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203502169/lawrence-franklin-sherwoodFamily/Spouse: Unknown Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 4. Judith Susan Sherwood was born on 9 Jul 1952 in Petersburg, Grant County, West Virginia; died on 13 Sep 2006 in Perry Hall, Baltimore County, Maryland; was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Brooklyn Park, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
- 4. Judith Susan Sherwood
Generation: 3
4. Judith Susan Sherwood (3.Lawrence2, 1.Blanche1) was born on 9 Jul 1952 in Petersburg, Grant County, West Virginia; died on 13 Sep 2006 in Perry Hall, Baltimore County, Maryland; was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Brooklyn Park, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Notes:
JUDITH SUSAN SCHAUMBURG, 54, NURSE
Judith Susan Schaumburg, a department store claims adjuster and nurse, died of cancer Wednesday at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Perry Hall resident was 54.
Born Judith Susan Sherwood in Petersburg, W.Va., and raised in Oakland in Garrett County, she earned a nursing diploma in 1973 from Maryland General Hospital, where she was head nurse in a surgical floor.
She later earned a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Baltimore.
From 1981 to 1986, she taught nursing at Eastern Vocational-Technical High School in Baltimore County.
She then raised a family and later was a claims adjustor for the May department stores.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Lassahn Funeral Home, 11750 Belair Road in Kingsville.
Survivors include her husband of 27 years, * Schaumburg, a Baltimore City schoolteacher; a son,* Schaumburg, and a daughter, * Schaumburg, both of Perry Hall; her parents, * Sherwood and * Sherwood, both of Oakland; a brother, * Sherwood of Mount Nebo, W.Va.; and three sisters, * Bertz of Hackettstown, N.J., * Ognibene of Short Gap, W.Va., and * Drebelbis of Cincinnati.
The Sun, Baltimore, MD, Sunday, September 17, 2006, P 4B
* = Living Person.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115001196/judith-susan-schaumburg
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