Andrew Adgate Duer

Andrew Adgate Duer, “Ad,” was a World War II veteran, accomplished attorney, loving husband, father, and friend. He died of natural causes at home on March 7 at age 97. The son of A. Adgate Duer, a Baltimore businessman, and Ellen Robinson Duer, a homemaker, Ad was raised in Baltimore and Stevenson, MD. He attended Gilman before graduating from Kent School in CT. He then graduated from Princeton (1939) and the University of Virginia Law School (1942). On leaving UVA, Ad entered WWII as an Army 2nd Lieutenant, exiting as a Major. He served in the artillery division during the campaigns for North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. Assigned to Allied Control Headquarters, he also served in Bulgaria. Through his commander Gen. J.A. Crane, he met many notables in the armed forces including General Patton and General Roosevelt. In his later years, Ad wrote of his wartime experience and how he met his future bride, British nurse, Phyllis Bolton, in Algiers. They were later married in Naples, Italy. His wife of nearly 47 years preceded him in death in 1991. Mr. Duer practiced law at Niles, Barton &Wilmer where he developed a substantial clientele; at one point he became the firm’s Managing Partner. He served on numerous Boards including Church Home and Hospital, Steamship Trade Association, Baltimore Life, and Hutzlers. He loved physical activity, especially tennis, squash and golf, playing the latter until he was 95. He also loved his church, attending every Sunday well into his 90s, and serving twice on the vestry of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Owings Mills. He has also been affiliated with Christ Church, near his current home in Easton. Ad was a member of Greenspring Valley Hunt Club, Talbot Country Club, Maryland Club, Bachelors’ Cotillion, Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club, and Society of the Cincinnati. He is survived by his wife of 21 years, Katherine Poe Duer; his two daughters, Margaret Singh of Columbia, MD, and Bolton Duer Price, of Ferrisburg, VT, and their spouses; his son, Andrew Adgate Duer, of Easton, and a stepson, John Marshall Morgan, of Wrightsville Beach, NC. He is also survived by five grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. He is also survived by close beloved friends, the Molesworths and the Darnells. He is predeceased by two stepdaughters, Lee Morgan McDonough and Mary Aldrich Morgan. Due to renovations at Christ Church, a memorial service will be held at Trinity Cathedral, 315 Goldsborough St., in Easton, on Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. A reception to follow for family and friends. The burial service will be private at St. Thomas’s Church Episcopal Church Cemetery in Owings Mills. In lieu of flowers, please make memorial donations in memory of Mr. Duer to a charity of your choice.

Andrew Adgate Duer

August 27, 1917 - March 7, 2015