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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** *****Nov. 21, 2002***** Wardell Fletcher Austin Wardell Fletcher Austin, also known to her family as Nana, passed away on Nov. 17. Up until her death, she lived at Larkin Chase Nursing Center in Bowie. She is survived by daughters Daphne Carrington and Dolores Teverbaugh; stepchildren Mable Elliott, Barbara Henderson, Haskell Austin II, Thomas Austin, Curtis Austin and Robert E. Austin; granddaughter Lanita Wodden, who she raised; siblings Joyce, Charles, Robert Jr. and Leon Fletcher. She is also survived by a host of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, two sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, cousins, and other relatives and friends. Austin was preceded in death by her husband, Haskel Austin Sr.; children Frances "Sally" Fletcher and James Spriggs; and stepchildren Loleta Atkinson and Tracy Gary. Austin will lie in state at Joseph Catholic Church, 2020 St. Joseph Dr. in Largo from 10:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 22. Helen Padgett Helen Padgett, 82, who co-owned with her husband Padgett's Supermarket in Camp Springs, died Nov. 5 at her home in Camp Springs. She had lung and heart disease. She was born March 21, 1920, and lived in Upper Marlboro on a working farm that grew tobacco and vegetables and raised chickens. She lived on this farm until she married Elmer Padgett April 15, 1942, at Epiphany Episcopal Church in Forestville. She began working at the store shortly after her marriage in 1942. Padgett stopped working there in 1979 after a fire destroyed the business. She was a graduate of Upper Marlboro High School and Strayer College. In the early 1940s, she did secretarial work at the War Department. Padgett and her husband enjoyed 49 years of marriage until his death in 1991. Her avocations included gourmet cooking, traveling and visiting with friends. Her travels included touring the United States, Canada and Europe. She was a member of Christ Episcopal Church in Clinton and the Widows Club. Survivors include her son, Elmer Padgett Jr., and daughter-in-law Karen B. Padgett of Beltsville; a grandson, Bryan Padgett, and granddaughter-in-law, Lynn Padgett of Fairfax, Va.; and a granddaughter, Sandra Padgett of Gaithersburg. Personal expressions of sympathy can be sent to Elmer P. Padgett Jr., 10711 Home Acres Terrace, Beltsville, Md., 20705. Priscilla Teasdale Rubincam (1909-2002) Priscilla Teasdale Rubincam, widow of noted genealogist Milton Rubincam and longtime Hyattsville resident, died Oct. 27 at the Glade Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Walkersville, due to complications from a stroke. She was 92. Rubincam was the daughter of William Carey Teasdale Jr. and Lydia (Parry) Teasdale, and the granddaughter of Indiana industrialist David M. Parry, who manufactured carriages and automobiles at the turn of the 20th century. Rubincam was born in Indianapolis on Dec. 14, 1909. Her father, William Carey Teasdale Jr., went into the automobile business in Indianapolis. While in seventh grade at the Central Avenue School in Ocean City, N.J., Rubincam met her future husband, Milton Rubincam. They married in 1935 in Elkton. She graduated from Ocean City High School in 1929 and attended the Indiana School of Nursing in Indianapolis for two years. In 1934 the family moved to Washington, D.C., where Rubincam worked as a governess. Milton Rubincam became one of the country's outstanding researchers in family history. In 1941 the Rubincams moved to 6303 20th Ave. in Hyattsville, among the first to settle in the Green Meadows subdevelopment. Rubincam became a housewife and raised three sons. Milton Rubincam passed away on Sept. 9, 1997. In 2001, Rubincam moved from the Hyattsville house where she had lived for nearly 60 years and settled in Frederick. She suffered a major stroke on Sept. 9, 2002. She is survived by her sons John and Milton Rubincam of Frederick; son David Rubincam and daughter-in-law Eloise Ross Rubincam, of Lanham; sister-in-law Phyllis Davison Teasdale of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; niece Holly Teasdale Brunelli of Exeter, N.H.; and nephews Parry Teasdale of Chatham, N.Y. and Christopher Teasdale of Califon, N.J. Her remains are interred next to those of her husband in the Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill, Pa. Mildred Duley Wyvill Mildred Duley Wyvill passed away at her home, Kinsale, in Upper Marlboro on Nov. 3. She was 85 years old. Wyvill was a homemaker and was retired from the Prince George's County Office of Land Records. She was also a past member of the Catholic Daughter's of America and the choir of St. Mary's of the Assumption Church in Upper Marlboro. She was an avid gardener and loved to work in her yard. Her hobbies were playing the organ and genealogy. Born in 1917, she was the daughter of the late William Cornelius Duley and Alice Ridgeway Duley. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Michael Wyvill Sr.; brothers Cleveland, Oscar, Joseph, James, Bennett and William Duley; sisters Evelyn Baden, Agnes Wyvill and Fannie Rogers. She is survived by her sons, Michael Wyvill Jr. and his wife, Ruth, of Waldorf, and Ridgely Wyvill and his wife, Connie, of Mississippi; daughters, Janet Schuh of Wisconsin, Cynthia duCellier and her husband, Jerry, of Upper Marlboro, and Amelia Harrison and her husband, Joe, of Port Tobacco. She is also survived by 21 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted by Father Vu at St. Mary's Assumption Church and internment took place at Resurrection Cemetery in Clinton. Wyvill's grandsons Thomas Philips, John Schuh, Jerry duCellier, Christopher Harrison, Michael Wyvill III and Michael Schuh acted as pallbearers. Grandsons Jason duCellier, Patrick Harrison and Brian Harrison were honorary pallbearers.