Mary Edith Roeder, 86, who ran a student boarding house on Foxhall Road in the 1920s and 1930s, died in Providence Hospital Saturday of a stroke.
Miss Roeder was the daughter of an Upper Marlboro store owner and worked as a bookkeeper until she started the boarding house about 1917. She retired in 1937 and lived in Jacksonville, Fla. and in Baltimore before returning here.
She was a member of Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church.
Services were held yesterday in St. Jerome's Catholic Church. Burial was in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
In her last year's, Edith resided in Hyattsville, Maryland with her sister, Bessie DeMarr.
Mary Edith Roeder, 86, who ran a student boarding house on Foxhall Road in the 1920s and 1930s, died in Providence Hospital Saturday of a stroke.
Miss Roeder was the daughter of an Upper Marlboro store owner and worked as a bookkeeper until she started the boarding house about 1917. She retired in 1937 and lived in Jacksonville, Fla. and in Baltimore before returning here.
She was a member of Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church.
Services were held yesterday in St. Jerome's Catholic Church. Burial was in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
In her last year's, Edith resided in Hyattsville, Maryland with her sister, Bessie DeMarr.
Family Members
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William Ambrose Roeder
1882–1963
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Victoria Priscilla "Daisy" Roeder Gilroy
1885–1923
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Elizabeth Rebecca "Bessie" Roeder DeMarr
1888–1971
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John Roeder
1890–1890
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Joseph Roeder
1890–1890
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Katherine Moran Roeder Wells
1891–1980
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PVT Helen Anna Roeder Donahue
1894–1976
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Margaret Genevieve Roeder Lewis
1898–1986
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Charles Aloysius Roeder
1900–1964
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Sr Eleanor Agnes Roeder
1904–1988
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