Ella Jane Fowle Trainor, 89, attended by family, passed away on Saturday, November 21, 2015, at Commonwealth Assisted Living in Radford, Virginia. Ella was born on January 13, 1926, the fifth of six children born to the late Thomas John Fowle and Eva Dillon Fowle in Denver, Colorado. She graduated from Cathedral High School in Denver in 1943, and studied nursing for three years at St. Xavier College for Women in Chicago. She married John Thomas Hanks, also of Denver, in 1946. They raised three children in the Tri-Cities area of Washington State.
Mrs. Trainor relocated to the Washington, D.C. area in 1967, following divorce. She practiced accounting until her full retirement in the mid-1990s from Zinder & Co. She was a member of the Pendulum Club throughout; a Washington, D.C. chapter of the Business and Professional Women's Organization, chairing various committees and holding office positions, including president.
Mrs. Trainor moved to Olney, Maryland in 1972, with her second husband Robert Price, retired Air Force. She joined St. John's Episcopal Church in Olney, with Bob from that time, and continuing with her third husband Harry Trainor of Silver Spring, Maryland whom she married in 1979, after four years of widowhood. Ella was widowed again in 1992, and devoted even more time to St. John's in accounting and in service as Church Treasurer for several years. She left Olney in 2002, and retired to Vantage House in Columbia, Maryland. Declining health led to further moves in her last three years. While in Olney, she was an active member of the Montgomery County Historical Society and the Montgomery County Genealogical Club and was a subscriber to the Olney Playhouse.
Mrs. Trainor began to enjoy travel within the U.S. and internationally in the 1970s, but especially from the 1980s up to 2000, often teaming with her sisters Anna and Lynn. She also ventured into volunteer efforts under mentorship and literacy programs active in Montgomery County and visited Poland as an English conversation resource for children in a rural school.
She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers: Charles and Thomas Fowle; sisters: Agnes Collins and Anna Horvath; grandson: David Hanks; and her husbands: Robert Henry Price and Harry Jacques Trainor.
Survivors include her first husband: John Thomas Hanks of Lake Havasu City, Arizona; sister: Evangeline Cluck of Pagossa Springs, Colorado; son and daughter-in-law: John Thomas, III, and Barbara Lang Hanks of Lake Havasu City; daughters and sons-in-law: Janice Hanks Davis and Robert Davis of Baltimore, Maryland and Pamela Hanks Toh and Kiertisak Toh of Riner, Virginia; step daughter and son-in-law: Patricia Price Palmer and David Palmer of Jacksonville, Florida; step sons and daughters-in-law: (Howard) Ed and Shelly Williams Trainor of Newport Beach, California, and Harry and Leslie Billman Trainor of Annapolis, Maryland; three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
A funeral Mass was celebrated at Saint Jude Catholic Church in Radford, Virginia.
A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, December 5, 2015, at Parklawn Memorial Park in Rockville, Maryland.
Published Online in The Frederick News-Post from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, 2015
Mrs. Trainor relocated to the Washington, D.C. area in 1967, following divorce. She practiced accounting until her full retirement in the mid-1990s from Zinder & Co. She was a member of the Pendulum Club throughout; a Washington, D.C. chapter of the Business and Professional Women's Organization, chairing various committees and holding office positions, including president.
Mrs. Trainor moved to Olney, Maryland in 1972, with her second husband Robert Price, retired Air Force. She joined St. John's Episcopal Church in Olney, with Bob from that time, and continuing with her third husband Harry Trainor of Silver Spring, Maryland whom she married in 1979, after four years of widowhood. Ella was widowed again in 1992, and devoted even more time to St. John's in accounting and in service as Church Treasurer for several years. She left Olney in 2002, and retired to Vantage House in Columbia, Maryland. Declining health led to further moves in her last three years. While in Olney, she was an active member of the Montgomery County Historical Society and the Montgomery County Genealogical Club and was a subscriber to the Olney Playhouse.
Mrs. Trainor began to enjoy travel within the U.S. and internationally in the 1970s, but especially from the 1980s up to 2000, often teaming with her sisters Anna and Lynn. She also ventured into volunteer efforts under mentorship and literacy programs active in Montgomery County and visited Poland as an English conversation resource for children in a rural school.
She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers: Charles and Thomas Fowle; sisters: Agnes Collins and Anna Horvath; grandson: David Hanks; and her husbands: Robert Henry Price and Harry Jacques Trainor.
Survivors include her first husband: John Thomas Hanks of Lake Havasu City, Arizona; sister: Evangeline Cluck of Pagossa Springs, Colorado; son and daughter-in-law: John Thomas, III, and Barbara Lang Hanks of Lake Havasu City; daughters and sons-in-law: Janice Hanks Davis and Robert Davis of Baltimore, Maryland and Pamela Hanks Toh and Kiertisak Toh of Riner, Virginia; step daughter and son-in-law: Patricia Price Palmer and David Palmer of Jacksonville, Florida; step sons and daughters-in-law: (Howard) Ed and Shelly Williams Trainor of Newport Beach, California, and Harry and Leslie Billman Trainor of Annapolis, Maryland; three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
A funeral Mass was celebrated at Saint Jude Catholic Church in Radford, Virginia.
A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, December 5, 2015, at Parklawn Memorial Park in Rockville, Maryland.
Published Online in The Frederick News-Post from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, 2015
Ella Jane Fowle Trainor, 89, attended by family, passed away on Saturday, November 21, 2015, at Commonwealth Assisted Living in Radford, Virginia. Ella was born on January 13, 1926, the fifth of six children born to the late Thomas John Fowle and Eva Dillon Fowle in Denver, Colorado. She graduated from Cathedral High School in Denver in 1943, and studied nursing for three years at St. Xavier College for Women in Chicago. She married John Thomas Hanks, also of Denver, in 1946. They raised three children in the Tri-Cities area of Washington State.
Mrs. Trainor relocated to the Washington, D.C. area in 1967, following divorce. She practiced accounting until her full retirement in the mid-1990s from Zinder & Co. She was a member of the Pendulum Club throughout; a Washington, D.C. chapter of the Business and Professional Women's Organization, chairing various committees and holding office positions, including president.
Mrs. Trainor moved to Olney, Maryland in 1972, with her second husband Robert Price, retired Air Force. She joined St. John's Episcopal Church in Olney, with Bob from that time, and continuing with her third husband Harry Trainor of Silver Spring, Maryland whom she married in 1979, after four years of widowhood. Ella was widowed again in 1992, and devoted even more time to St. John's in accounting and in service as Church Treasurer for several years. She left Olney in 2002, and retired to Vantage House in Columbia, Maryland. Declining health led to further moves in her last three years. While in Olney, she was an active member of the Montgomery County Historical Society and the Montgomery County Genealogical Club and was a subscriber to the Olney Playhouse.
Mrs. Trainor began to enjoy travel within the U.S. and internationally in the 1970s, but especially from the 1980s up to 2000, often teaming with her sisters Anna and Lynn. She also ventured into volunteer efforts under mentorship and literacy programs active in Montgomery County and visited Poland as an English conversation resource for children in a rural school.
She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers: Charles and Thomas Fowle; sisters: Agnes Collins and Anna Horvath; grandson: David Hanks; and her husbands: Robert Henry Price and Harry Jacques Trainor.
Survivors include her first husband: John Thomas Hanks of Lake Havasu City, Arizona; sister: Evangeline Cluck of Pagossa Springs, Colorado; son and daughter-in-law: John Thomas, III, and Barbara Lang Hanks of Lake Havasu City; daughters and sons-in-law: Janice Hanks Davis and Robert Davis of Baltimore, Maryland and Pamela Hanks Toh and Kiertisak Toh of Riner, Virginia; step daughter and son-in-law: Patricia Price Palmer and David Palmer of Jacksonville, Florida; step sons and daughters-in-law: (Howard) Ed and Shelly Williams Trainor of Newport Beach, California, and Harry and Leslie Billman Trainor of Annapolis, Maryland; three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
A funeral Mass was celebrated at Saint Jude Catholic Church in Radford, Virginia.
A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, December 5, 2015, at Parklawn Memorial Park in Rockville, Maryland.
Published Online in The Frederick News-Post from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, 2015
Mrs. Trainor relocated to the Washington, D.C. area in 1967, following divorce. She practiced accounting until her full retirement in the mid-1990s from Zinder & Co. She was a member of the Pendulum Club throughout; a Washington, D.C. chapter of the Business and Professional Women's Organization, chairing various committees and holding office positions, including president.
Mrs. Trainor moved to Olney, Maryland in 1972, with her second husband Robert Price, retired Air Force. She joined St. John's Episcopal Church in Olney, with Bob from that time, and continuing with her third husband Harry Trainor of Silver Spring, Maryland whom she married in 1979, after four years of widowhood. Ella was widowed again in 1992, and devoted even more time to St. John's in accounting and in service as Church Treasurer for several years. She left Olney in 2002, and retired to Vantage House in Columbia, Maryland. Declining health led to further moves in her last three years. While in Olney, she was an active member of the Montgomery County Historical Society and the Montgomery County Genealogical Club and was a subscriber to the Olney Playhouse.
Mrs. Trainor began to enjoy travel within the U.S. and internationally in the 1970s, but especially from the 1980s up to 2000, often teaming with her sisters Anna and Lynn. She also ventured into volunteer efforts under mentorship and literacy programs active in Montgomery County and visited Poland as an English conversation resource for children in a rural school.
She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers: Charles and Thomas Fowle; sisters: Agnes Collins and Anna Horvath; grandson: David Hanks; and her husbands: Robert Henry Price and Harry Jacques Trainor.
Survivors include her first husband: John Thomas Hanks of Lake Havasu City, Arizona; sister: Evangeline Cluck of Pagossa Springs, Colorado; son and daughter-in-law: John Thomas, III, and Barbara Lang Hanks of Lake Havasu City; daughters and sons-in-law: Janice Hanks Davis and Robert Davis of Baltimore, Maryland and Pamela Hanks Toh and Kiertisak Toh of Riner, Virginia; step daughter and son-in-law: Patricia Price Palmer and David Palmer of Jacksonville, Florida; step sons and daughters-in-law: (Howard) Ed and Shelly Williams Trainor of Newport Beach, California, and Harry and Leslie Billman Trainor of Annapolis, Maryland; three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
A funeral Mass was celebrated at Saint Jude Catholic Church in Radford, Virginia.
A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, December 5, 2015, at Parklawn Memorial Park in Rockville, Maryland.
Published Online in The Frederick News-Post from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, 2015
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