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Doris Yvonne McQuay
Posted 11/20/06
Doris Yvonne McQuay, 83 LAUREL - Doris Yvonne McQuay of Laurel passed away Saturday, Nov. 18, 2006, in Coastal Hospice by the Lake, Salisbury, Md. She was 83. Ms. McQuay was born in Bozman, Md., …
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Doris Yvonne McQuay
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Doris Yvonne McQuay, 83
LAUREL - Doris Yvonne McQuay of Laurel passed away Saturday, Nov. 18, 2006, in Coastal Hospice by the Lake, Salisbury, Md. She was 83.
Ms. McQuay was born in Bozman, Md., daughter of the late Daniel Seth McQuay and Helen Graff Fedder.
She was a major with the Salvation Army, commissioned from the Salvation Army Training College in Atlanta, in May 1953. She had a short appointment to the Mountain Mission in North Carolina. She also had been stationed in the Salvation Army"s Homes and Hospitals for Unwed Mothers in Birmingham, Ala., Tulsa, Okla., Tampa, Fla., Louisville, Ky., and Richmond, Va. She served at the Salvation Army Day Care Center in Baltimore and was the director of the Girls Club in Winston-Salem, N.C., from 1973 until her retirement in 1985.
Ms. McQuay was a Christian comic and traveled to many Salvation Army senior camps throughout the eastern United States after her retirement and appeared many times on a local Salisbury television station. She was the Salvation Army"s Woman of the Year for the Salisbury area in 2005. She attended the Salvation Army Corp., Salisbury.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Leroy Seth McQuay.
She is survived by a sister, Katherine Ziegelheafer of Delmar; a brother, Gordon Reuben McQuay of Baltimore; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Friends may call from 3 to 5 p.m., and again from 7 to 9 p.m., Tuesday in Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk, Md.
Services will be noon Wednesday in the funeral home. Majors Keith Biggers and Gene Hogg will officiate.
Burial will follow in Gardens of Faith, Baltimore.
Instead of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to the Salvation Army, P.O. Box 3235, Salisbury, MD 21802.