Elizabeth "Gayle" Edens, 62 of Leonardtown, MD, passed away on September 4, 2013 at her residence. Born February 9, 1951 in Washington, D.C. She is the daughter of John Dunlap Freeman and Minnia Marie Graves Freeman of Leonardtown, MD.

She was the wife of the late Lowell Daniel Edens, Sr. whom she married August 26, 1967 in Spencerville, MD, son; Lowell Daniel Edens, Jr. of Glen Burnie, MD, siblings; Karen Marie Cook of Belair, MD, Ann Hilderbrand of Rockville, MD, Barbara Ellen McDonald of Arroyo Grande, CA, Roselea Arnold of Mechanicsville, MD , and Melody Jane Jackson of Lexington Park, MD.

Gayle was preceded in death by a son, David Wayne Edens.

Gayle graduated from Sherwood High School, she was a Hotel Clerk for the Charlotte Hall Motel, retiring in 2009. Gayle enjoyed playing bingo and genealogy. She was in the process of writing a book on genealogy for the Thompson's and Graves families.

Arrangements provided by the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, P.A., Leonardtown, MD