Janet Diekmann Harris, a homemaker and gardener, died of pneumonia March 14, 2006. The Glen Arm, Maryland resident was 88.
She was born Muriel Janet Diekmann in Canton, Ohio, and raised in Dundalk, Maryland when her parents relocated from Ohio in 1927. She graduated in 1935 from Sparrows Point High School.
While attending Strayer's Business College she met a young man who was studying at the Johns Hopkins University and rode the same streetcar into Baltimore City each day. Family members said the young man timed his travels so that he caught the same streetcar because he had described her as being "so cute."
In 1942, she married that fellow traveler, Benjamin L. "Doc" Harris, a chemical engineer, who later retired as technical director at the Edgewood Arsenal.
For 50 years, until moving into the Glen Meadows retirement community in 2002, they lived at Pondsprings, their 6-acre Glen Arm farm, where Mrs. Harris enjoyed vegetable and flower gardening. She also collected antique furniture, rugs and clocks with which she furnished her home.
She was an active member of St. John's Lutheran Church, where she volunteered with the Electa Circle, Altar Guild, FISH, and the church's kitchen committee.
Mrs. Harris has been a Girl Scout leader and volunteered at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore. She often drove local senior citizens to their doctors' appointments.
She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and had received the Lutheran Church Service to Youth Award for her volunteer work with the Boy Scouts of America.
Their five children, a son and four daughters, have their own families and still reside in the Baltimore area.
She was born Muriel Janet Diekmann in Canton, Ohio, and raised in Dundalk, Maryland when her parents relocated from Ohio in 1927. She graduated in 1935 from Sparrows Point High School.
While attending Strayer's Business College she met a young man who was studying at the Johns Hopkins University and rode the same streetcar into Baltimore City each day. Family members said the young man timed his travels so that he caught the same streetcar because he had described her as being "so cute."
In 1942, she married that fellow traveler, Benjamin L. "Doc" Harris, a chemical engineer, who later retired as technical director at the Edgewood Arsenal.
For 50 years, until moving into the Glen Meadows retirement community in 2002, they lived at Pondsprings, their 6-acre Glen Arm farm, where Mrs. Harris enjoyed vegetable and flower gardening. She also collected antique furniture, rugs and clocks with which she furnished her home.
She was an active member of St. John's Lutheran Church, where she volunteered with the Electa Circle, Altar Guild, FISH, and the church's kitchen committee.
Mrs. Harris has been a Girl Scout leader and volunteered at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore. She often drove local senior citizens to their doctors' appointments.
She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and had received the Lutheran Church Service to Youth Award for her volunteer work with the Boy Scouts of America.
Their five children, a son and four daughters, have their own families and still reside in the Baltimore area.
Janet Diekmann Harris, a homemaker and gardener, died of pneumonia March 14, 2006. The Glen Arm, Maryland resident was 88.
She was born Muriel Janet Diekmann in Canton, Ohio, and raised in Dundalk, Maryland when her parents relocated from Ohio in 1927. She graduated in 1935 from Sparrows Point High School.
While attending Strayer's Business College she met a young man who was studying at the Johns Hopkins University and rode the same streetcar into Baltimore City each day. Family members said the young man timed his travels so that he caught the same streetcar because he had described her as being "so cute."
In 1942, she married that fellow traveler, Benjamin L. "Doc" Harris, a chemical engineer, who later retired as technical director at the Edgewood Arsenal.
For 50 years, until moving into the Glen Meadows retirement community in 2002, they lived at Pondsprings, their 6-acre Glen Arm farm, where Mrs. Harris enjoyed vegetable and flower gardening. She also collected antique furniture, rugs and clocks with which she furnished her home.
She was an active member of St. John's Lutheran Church, where she volunteered with the Electa Circle, Altar Guild, FISH, and the church's kitchen committee.
Mrs. Harris has been a Girl Scout leader and volunteered at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore. She often drove local senior citizens to their doctors' appointments.
She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and had received the Lutheran Church Service to Youth Award for her volunteer work with the Boy Scouts of America.
Their five children, a son and four daughters, have their own families and still reside in the Baltimore area.
She was born Muriel Janet Diekmann in Canton, Ohio, and raised in Dundalk, Maryland when her parents relocated from Ohio in 1927. She graduated in 1935 from Sparrows Point High School.
While attending Strayer's Business College she met a young man who was studying at the Johns Hopkins University and rode the same streetcar into Baltimore City each day. Family members said the young man timed his travels so that he caught the same streetcar because he had described her as being "so cute."
In 1942, she married that fellow traveler, Benjamin L. "Doc" Harris, a chemical engineer, who later retired as technical director at the Edgewood Arsenal.
For 50 years, until moving into the Glen Meadows retirement community in 2002, they lived at Pondsprings, their 6-acre Glen Arm farm, where Mrs. Harris enjoyed vegetable and flower gardening. She also collected antique furniture, rugs and clocks with which she furnished her home.
She was an active member of St. John's Lutheran Church, where she volunteered with the Electa Circle, Altar Guild, FISH, and the church's kitchen committee.
Mrs. Harris has been a Girl Scout leader and volunteered at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore. She often drove local senior citizens to their doctors' appointments.
She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and had received the Lutheran Church Service to Youth Award for her volunteer work with the Boy Scouts of America.
Their five children, a son and four daughters, have their own families and still reside in the Baltimore area.
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
