Mrs. Elizabeth Cook "Libby" Cavanaugh, 85, of Laytonsville, died Monday, June 11, at Montgomery Casey House Hospice, Rockville.
She was the wife of the late David T. Cavanaugh, her husband of 50 years.
Born Jan. 31, 1916, in Baltimore, she was a daughter of the late Victor and Elizabeth Bowling Cook and the eldest of eight children.
She had worked as an executive secretary before starting a family. This included service for Gov. William Preston Lane of Maryland at the time the original Chesapeake Bay Bridge was being constructed.
She is survived by six children, David Cavanaugh of Alexandria, Va., Betsy Cavanaugh-O'Keefe and Rachel Cavanaugh-Rouse, both of Laytonsville, Louise Cavanaugh Roslansky of Wellesley, Mass., Ann Cavanaugh Mendelsohn of Newbury, Mass., and Charles Cavanaugh of Combermere, Canada; three sisters, Trudy Maguire of Marion, Pa., Margaret Hunt of Mercere Island, Wash., and Julia Beven Flynn of Acton, Mass.; and 17 grandchildren.
Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 13, at St. Paul's Catholic Church, 9250 Damascus Road, Damascus, where a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 14.
Entombment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery Mausoleum, Silver Spring.
Arrangements are by Olin L. Molesworth Funeral Home, Damascus.
She was the wife of the late David T. Cavanaugh, her husband of 50 years.
Born Jan. 31, 1916, in Baltimore, she was a daughter of the late Victor and Elizabeth Bowling Cook and the eldest of eight children.
She had worked as an executive secretary before starting a family. This included service for Gov. William Preston Lane of Maryland at the time the original Chesapeake Bay Bridge was being constructed.
She is survived by six children, David Cavanaugh of Alexandria, Va., Betsy Cavanaugh-O'Keefe and Rachel Cavanaugh-Rouse, both of Laytonsville, Louise Cavanaugh Roslansky of Wellesley, Mass., Ann Cavanaugh Mendelsohn of Newbury, Mass., and Charles Cavanaugh of Combermere, Canada; three sisters, Trudy Maguire of Marion, Pa., Margaret Hunt of Mercere Island, Wash., and Julia Beven Flynn of Acton, Mass.; and 17 grandchildren.
Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 13, at St. Paul's Catholic Church, 9250 Damascus Road, Damascus, where a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 14.
Entombment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery Mausoleum, Silver Spring.
Arrangements are by Olin L. Molesworth Funeral Home, Damascus.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cook "Libby" Cavanaugh, 85, of Laytonsville, died Monday, June 11, at Montgomery Casey House Hospice, Rockville.
She was the wife of the late David T. Cavanaugh, her husband of 50 years.
Born Jan. 31, 1916, in Baltimore, she was a daughter of the late Victor and Elizabeth Bowling Cook and the eldest of eight children.
She had worked as an executive secretary before starting a family. This included service for Gov. William Preston Lane of Maryland at the time the original Chesapeake Bay Bridge was being constructed.
She is survived by six children, David Cavanaugh of Alexandria, Va., Betsy Cavanaugh-O'Keefe and Rachel Cavanaugh-Rouse, both of Laytonsville, Louise Cavanaugh Roslansky of Wellesley, Mass., Ann Cavanaugh Mendelsohn of Newbury, Mass., and Charles Cavanaugh of Combermere, Canada; three sisters, Trudy Maguire of Marion, Pa., Margaret Hunt of Mercere Island, Wash., and Julia Beven Flynn of Acton, Mass.; and 17 grandchildren.
Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 13, at St. Paul's Catholic Church, 9250 Damascus Road, Damascus, where a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 14.
Entombment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery Mausoleum, Silver Spring.
Arrangements are by Olin L. Molesworth Funeral Home, Damascus.
She was the wife of the late David T. Cavanaugh, her husband of 50 years.
Born Jan. 31, 1916, in Baltimore, she was a daughter of the late Victor and Elizabeth Bowling Cook and the eldest of eight children.
She had worked as an executive secretary before starting a family. This included service for Gov. William Preston Lane of Maryland at the time the original Chesapeake Bay Bridge was being constructed.
She is survived by six children, David Cavanaugh of Alexandria, Va., Betsy Cavanaugh-O'Keefe and Rachel Cavanaugh-Rouse, both of Laytonsville, Louise Cavanaugh Roslansky of Wellesley, Mass., Ann Cavanaugh Mendelsohn of Newbury, Mass., and Charles Cavanaugh of Combermere, Canada; three sisters, Trudy Maguire of Marion, Pa., Margaret Hunt of Mercere Island, Wash., and Julia Beven Flynn of Acton, Mass.; and 17 grandchildren.
Friends may call from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 13, at St. Paul's Catholic Church, 9250 Damascus Road, Damascus, where a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 14.
Entombment will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery Mausoleum, Silver Spring.
Arrangements are by Olin L. Molesworth Funeral Home, Damascus.
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