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Mary Downes Cook Knoll
Posted 2/14/08
Mary Downes Cook Knoll, 92 DOVER - Mary Downes Cook Knoll, formerly of Silver Spring, Md., died Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008, in Silver Lake Center, Dover. She was 92. Born on April 14, 1915, in Queen …
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Mary Downes Cook Knoll
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Mary Downes Cook Knoll, 92
DOVER - Mary Downes Cook Knoll, formerly of Silver Spring, Md., died Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008, in Silver Lake Center, Dover. She was 92.
Born on April 14, 1915, in Queen Anne's County, Md., Mrs. Knoll was the daughter of the late Marshall Bailey Downes and Mary Sparks Downes.
Mary attended public school in Queen Anne's County and graduated from Maryland General School of Nursing in Baltimore as a registered nurse in 1936.
She served in the U.S. Army Nurses Corps from 1936 to 1941. Among her patients in Walter Reed Army Hospital was Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing.
On Dec. 7, 1941, she married air force Lt. Bailey C. Cook in Puerto Rico and was a devoted spouse until his death in 1957.
Mary was a special duty nurse at Union Memorial Hospital and Greater Baltimore Medical Center from 1957 until 1978.
She married retired Air Force Col. Helmut J. Knoll in 1978, living in Virginia and Maryland.
Mary loved flowers, gardening and was an avid golfer.
She especially enjoyed traveling to many places in the United States and Europe and had a great love of family.
Mary was a member of the Inter-Faith Chapel at Leisure World in Silver Spring.
She is listed in the Registry for Women in the Military Service for America in Arlington, Va.
Mary is survived by one brother, James Albert Downes and his wife Phyllis of Timonium, Md.; one sister, Helen Downes Painton of Towson, Md.; five nephews, James Downes of Centreville, Md., Bennett Downes of Dover, Ray Murray of San Francisco, Peter Downes of Timonium, and Michael Downes of Bethany Beach; four nieces, Mary Frances Brandin of Mercer Island, Wash., Barbara Haroz of Shirley, Mass., Ann Murray of Baltimore, Carolyn Mullen of Seaford; and three stepchildren, Susan Knipp of Churchville, Va., Barbara Wilson of Hardy, Va., and Stephen Knoll of Pacific Grove, Calif.; 13 great-nieces and -nephews and seven great-great-nieces and -nephews.
Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Saturday in the Moore Funeral Home, P.A., 12 S. Second St., Denton, Md., where friends may call one hour before the service.
The interment will be in Denton Cemetery, Denton.
Memorials may be made to the Inter-Faith Chapel, 3680 South Leisure Word Blvd., Silver Spring, MD 20906; or to the Montgomery Hospice Foundation, 1355 Piccard Drive, Suite 100, Rockville, MD 20855.
