Mary Edith Brown Hammett passed away on June 1, 2014. She was born in Ijamsville, Maryland on July 8, 1911, to James Patrick Brown and Ethel Spill Brown.

After graduating as a registered nurse from Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburg, PA in 1933 she worked as a operating room nurse at Casualty Hospital in Washington, DC, until 1941.

In 1938, she married David Hammett in Washington. In 1945, she and her husband returned to St. Mary's, his birthplace. They lived at Park Hall until his death in 2003. The next year she moved to Cedar Lane Senior Community in Leonardtown.

Mrs. Hammett is survived by her children, Suzanne Lawrence and her husband John, of Dameron, Elizabeth Woodard and her husband Sandy, of Drayden, David Hammett, Jr., and his wife Debra Titus, of Laurel, DE, and Thomas Hammett and his wife Marguerite Bonuccelli of Bowie; nine grandchildren; and 11 great grandchildren.

In addition to her husband, she was predeceased by her siblings, Ruth Fritz, Julia McGraw, and Jeanne Mortimer, and her granddaughter Kathleen Lawrence.

Visitation will be at the Mattingly-Gardiner Funeral Home in Leonardtown on Wednesday, June 4, 2014, from 5 to 8 pm. A Mass of Christian Burial will take place on Thursday at Holy Face Church in Great Mills, at 10 am.

Memorial contributions may be made to MedStar St. Mary's Hospice, PO Box 625, Leonardtown, MD 20650, or to Friends of Cedar Lane, 22680 Cedar Lane Court, Leonardtown, MD 20650.

Arrangements provided by Mattingly-Gardiner Funeral Home.