Claudine Estella (Nagle) Price, 80

OCEAN VIEW - Claudine Estella (Nagle) Price, of Ocean View, died Friday, April 18, 2008, at home, surrounded by her loving family. She was 80.

Born Aug. 10, 1927, in Hampstead, Md., she was the daughter of the late Claude Otterbein and Elizabeth (Ridgely) Nagle.

She worked in secretarial positions over the years and also operated a craft store with her daughter in Westminster, Md.

She was very active in two chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She held several offices, some on the state level, in the William Winchester Chapter of the DAR of Carroll County, Md., and was most recently a member of the Colonel David Hall Chapter of Lewes.

A very active member of the Ocean View Presbyterian Church, she held several church offices in recent years.

She was also a member of the AARP and the Southeastern Sussex County Democratic Club.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 52 years, Gordon Brent Price Sr.; brothers, Claude Otterbein Nagle Jr. and Joseph Dudley Nagle; and sisters, Ellen Virginia Houck and Elizabeth Ridgely Bell.

She is survived by a son, Gordon Brent Price Jr. and his wife Shirley of Ocean View; a daughter, Kathleen Montgomery and her companion Gene Taylor of Great Cacapon, W.Va.; two sisters, Mary Haines and her husband Carroll and Beverly Franklin; two brothers-in-law, Lester Houck and William G. Bell; four grandchildren, Michele McCoy, C. Lee Montgomery and his wife Cristy, Melissa Dittman and her husband Matt and Kristi Spencer and her husband Neil; seven great-grandchildren, Connor, Devin and Harrison McCoy, Brent and Elizabeth Dittman, and Amanda and Brandon Montgomery; and six nephews, four nieces, 26 great-nieces and great-nephews and 25 great-great-nieces and nephews.

A funeral service will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Ocean View Chapel of Melson Funeral Services, West Avenue, Ocean View.

Friends and family may call Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home and also after noon the day of the service.

Interment will follow at the Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Millsboro.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions in Claudine's name to Compassionate Care Hospice, 31038 Country Garden Blvd., Suite D2, Dagsboro, DE 19939; or to the Shriners Hospital for Children, 8400 Roosevelt Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19152.