Visitation:

Brinsfield Funeral Home
Thursday, December 4, 2014
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Life celebration with Prayers recited at 7pm

Services:

St. John Francis Regis Catholic Church
Friday, December 5, 2014
11:00 AM
Mass of Christian Burial

Cemetery Services:

Queen of Peace Cemetery
Friday, December 5, 2014

Betty Ann (Harding) Drury of Mechanicsville, MD passed away peacefully on November 29, 2014.

Betty Ann (Harding) Drury was born October 31, 1924 to the late Frederick Leonard Harding and Lillie Mae (Downs) Harding. She was born in Sandgates, MD where her parents worked a farm. Growing up she helped on the farm and later at her parents business, Leonard Harding’s Grocery Store.

Betty met her husband Bernard J. Drury, Sr. through a friend and they were married January 29, 1946. They celebrated 59 wonderful years together before his passing on April 28, 2005. They had four children: Bernard J. Drury, Jr. (Carole) of VA, Cheryl Norton, Leonard Drury, and Cynthia Fields (John) all of MD; and six grandchildren, Duane Drury, Brandi Wexler (Randy), Brian Drury (Donna), Jennifer Queen (Shane), Adam Fields (Valerie) and Jason Drury and six great grandchildren. Betty is survived by her brother Earl Harding (Ann) of FL, sister’s, Katherine Buss of PA, Mary Jane Brookbank (Marcus) of MD, sister in law’s, Margaret Ann Harding and Ruth Schuhart both of MD, she is predeceased by her brother Leonard Harding, sister Louise LeBlanc and brother in law’s, Dale Buss and Art LeBlanc.

Betty graduated from Margaret Brent High School in 1942. After graduating, she went to work in Washington, DC for the Federal Communications Center. She stayed with her Aunt Madge while working in DC.

She helped her mother cook and feed the workers who were building the state road to the base. Later she went to work on the Patuxent River Naval Air Station.

Betty later assisted her husband, Bernard with his electrical business for many years. She did all his accounting and helped with the paperwork; all while she raised a family.

Betty loved playing cards, crocheting, traveling and cooking.

Betty decided to become a realtor. She took classes and received her license in the 1960’s. Her husband took classes at the same time. She was the first woman to sell real estate in St. Mary’s County. She went to work for Keith Realty in Marlow Heights in the 1960’s. After a while they opened a branch office at home where she worked for the company until she decided to take classes to become a Real Estate Broker. Betty and Bernard took classes together. Betty became a Real Estate Broker in the 1960’s opening the business B and B Realty, with her husband as the Associate Broker. Betty received the status of Realtor Emeritus for 40 consecutive years of membership in the National Association of Realtors in 2012. She was a member of the Southern MD Board of Realtors, Maryland Association of Realtors and National Association of Realtors.

Pallbearers will be Brandi Wexler, Randy Wexler, Brent Schuhart, Gene Drury, Don Thomas and Michael Wood. Honorary Pallbearers will be Mechanicsville Volunteer Rescue Squad Auxiliary.

Family will receive friends for Betty’s Life Celebration on Thursday, December 4, 2014 from 5 to 8 p.m., with prayers recited at 7:00 p.m., at Brinsfield Funeral Home, 22955 Hollywood Road, Leonardtown, MD 20650. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated by Reverend Raymond Schmidt on Friday, December 5, 2014 at 11 a.m. at St. John Francis Regis Catholic Church, 43927 St. John’s Road, Hollywood, MD 20636. Interment will follow at Queen of Peace Cemetery, 38888 Dr. Johnson Rd., Mechanicsville, MD.

Memorial Contributions may be made to St. John Francis Regis Church, 43927 St. John’s Road, Hollywood, MD 20636 and Mechanicsville Rescue Squad Auxiliary, P. O. Box 15, Mechanicsville, MD 20659

Condolences to the family may be made at www.brinsfieldfuneral.com.
Arrangements by the Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A.