Elizabeth was a lifelong parishioner of Holy Angles Catholic Church, where she attended school and was a member of the Holy Angels Our Lady of Fatima Sodality. She was a teacher’s aide at Dynard School for many years, leaving to assist her husband running the family business, James M. Downs Plumbing & Heating. She volunteered at the St. Mary’s Nursing & Rehabilitation Center for 25 years. Elizabeth enjoyed crafting ceramics, vegetable and flower gardening, and baking. She was famously known for the best yeast rolls, jello salad, fried oysters, crab imperial, fruit cake and tangle britches. She was a delightful hostess and took great pleasure in family gatherings. Her faith, family and friends were her greatest joy.
The family will receive friends on Thursday, July 11, 2019 from 5:00 to 8:00 PM with prayers recited at 7:00 PM in Holy Angels Catholic Church Avenue, MD where a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday, July 12, 2019 at 10:00 AM with Father James Myers officiating. Interment will follow in Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery Bushwood, MD. Serving as Pallbearers will be J.S. Downs, R.T. Johnston, Todd Leitch, Dash Dashiells, Joey Huseman, and Don Owens.
Burial:
Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery
Address 23070 Maddox Road
Bushwood, MD
Elizabeth was a lifelong parishioner of Holy Angles Catholic Church, where she attended school and was a member of the Holy Angels Our Lady of Fatima Sodality. She was a teacher’s aide at Dynard School for many years, leaving to assist her husband running the family business, James M. Downs Plumbing & Heating. She volunteered at the St. Mary’s Nursing & Rehabilitation Center for 25 years. Elizabeth enjoyed crafting ceramics, vegetable and flower gardening, and baking. She was famously known for the best yeast rolls, jello salad, fried oysters, crab imperial, fruit cake and tangle britches. She was a delightful hostess and took great pleasure in family gatherings. Her faith, family and friends were her greatest joy.
The family will receive friends on Thursday, July 11, 2019 from 5:00 to 8:00 PM with prayers recited at 7:00 PM in Holy Angels Catholic Church Avenue, MD where a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday, July 12, 2019 at 10:00 AM with Father James Myers officiating. Interment will follow in Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery Bushwood, MD. Serving as Pallbearers will be J.S. Downs, R.T. Johnston, Todd Leitch, Dash Dashiells, Joey Huseman, and Don Owens.
Burial:
Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery
Address 23070 Maddox Road
Bushwood, MD
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