Carolyn Huff Teegarden, 76

OCEAN VIEW - Carolyn Huff Teegarden of Ocean View died Saturday, Nov. 18, 2006, in her home. She was 76.

Mrs. Teegarden was born June 14, 1930, in Washington, D.C., daughter of the late Dorothy Holbrook Huff and retired U.S. Army Col. S. Prentiss Huff.

She grew up in Chevy Chase, Md., moving periodically with her parents to various military postings throughout the U.S. and overseas.

Mrs. Teegarden was a graduate of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School and the University of Maryland at College Park.

While at the University of Maryland, she met her husband, the late Dr. James Carr Teegarden, whom she married in 1952. In 1957, they returned to the Washington, D.C. area, settling in the same house in Chevy Chase where she was raised.

In the late 1960s, she returned to the University of Maryland, earning a master"s degree in speech and hearing while raising four children and working as a special education speech therapist at Christ Church Child Center in Bethesda.

After her husband"s retirement, they to the Bethany Beach/Ocean View area, where they spent the rest of their lives enjoying community volunteer involvement, beachcombing, and doting upon six grandchildren who visited often.

Mrs. Teegarden was always gifted at any activity remotely related to sewing, knitting or needlepoint. She finally found her true arts and crafts calling as a Delmarvalous Quilter.

She happily traveled throughout the U.S. and Ireland in search of unique yarns and quilting fabrics and patterns and she continued with quilting, needlepoint and knitting until her death.

Mrs. Teegarden was active in the community throughout her adult life, devoting enormous amounts of time to various Catholic parish communities at Saint Jane de Chantal, Bethesda, Our Lady of Lourdes, Bethesda, and Saint Ann"s in Bethany Beach, as well as numerous civic charitable efforts.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 51 years, Jim in 2005.

She is survived by four children, Patrick of Denver, Anne of Dallas, James of Ocean View and Michael of Richmond, Va.; and six grandchildren, Stephanie Doherty and Bethany Doherty, Joseph Teegarden and Clare Teegarden, and Lian Teegarden and Jade Teegarden; and a sister, Eleanor Feagles.

A memorial mass will be 2 p.m. Friday in St. Ann"s Catholic Church, Bethany Beach.

Burial will be at a later date in Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery South, Millsboro.

Instead of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to Delaware Hospice Southern Division, 20167 Office Circle, Georgetown, DE 19947.

Arrangements by Melson Funeral Services.