Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, March 10, 1990 TAG: 9003102262
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A4 EDITION: METRO
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OBIT-STERN, M.
STERN, MARY E. COATESVILLE, PA. - Mary Ellen D. Stern, 64, of Coatesville,
died Monday, March 5, at the Devon Manor in Devon, Pa. She was the wife of
Ellis E. Stern, Jr. She was born in Shenandoah, Va., the daughter of Mary
Akers Koontz, Elkton, Va., and the late Harley K. Dulaney. Mrs. Stern was a
graduate of the Shenandoah High School and the Mary Washington Collge in
Fredricksburg, Va. She was a teacher and had taught in the Henrico County
School System from 1947 until 1950. She was also employed by the E.I. Dupont
Co. in Wilmington, Del., as a secretary from 1950 until 1955. She was a member
of the Episcopal Church of the Trinity in Coatesville where she was active in
the church choir and altar guild. She was a former board member of the Mary
Washington Foundation, the American Association of University Women, past
president of the Town & Country Garden Club, a member of the Coatesville
Country Club, the Century Club in Coatesville, the Board of Directors of the
Brandywine Home Heath Care Service and the United Way Committee of Chester
County. She also served as chairman for the development committee of
Brandywine Hospital, former president of the Women Auxiliary of the Brandywine
Hospital and was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Beside
her husband and mother she is survived by two daughters, Alison S. Wood,
Boston, Mass.; Anne L. Tilley, Herndon, Va.; one grandson, two sisters, Connie
Waters, Abingdon, Va.; Elizabeth Ramsey, Staunton, Va.; a brother, Harley K.
Dulaney, Jacksonville, Fla.; her mother-in-law, Anna M. P. Stern, Coatesville.
Services will be held in Coatesville on Saturday.
by CNB