Christine W. Dyer

Christine W. Dyer of Stevensville, MD, previously of Millersville and Bethesda, MD, passed away June 17 at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore on her 71st birthday from a heart attack she suffered the day before. The daughter of the late Charles K. West, Jr., and Christine Heartfield West, she was born in Washington, DC, on June 17, 1946. She grew up in Bethesda, MD, and graduated from the Hannah Moore Academy Episcopal School in Reisterstown, MD, and attended Garland Junior College in Boston, MA. She was a secretary for the Marriot Corporation in Bethesda, TRACOR, Inc in Rockville, MD, and a legal secretary for Carr, Bonner, O’Conner, Kaplan & Dugid in Washington, DC. She also worked in the Marketing Department of the Washington Wizards basketball team at the Capital Centre in Landover, MD,before becoming a stay-at-home mom. Chris was a former member of the Junior League of Annapolis. She was the editor of the “CRUISE NEWS” and a Board Member of the Chesapeake Bay Power Boat Association. An avid Washington Capitals Hockey fan, she was also active in the Chesapeake Bay Chiefs Youth Hockey program in Severna Park as a Team Mom, Board Member, and Team Representative to the Capital Beltway Hockey League. She was a loved mother, wife, sister, cousin, godmother, and more. We find comfort that she is now with her son, Chad. Affectionately called “Mama D” by her children’s friends, she also enjoyed painting, photography, boating, power boat racing, and tracing her families’ ancestry. But most of all she was a loving mom who put her family first. She is predeceased by her parents and her son, Charles Brooke (Chad) Dyer. She is survived by her husband of 44 years, Ben Brooke Dyer; her daughter, Christine (Kenzie) Stodd and husband Brian Stodd; sister, Barbara West and her husband Vertner Smith of Louisville ,KY; and her beloved west highland terrier “Piper.” Please join us to honor her beautiful life. Her wishes were to not wear black as we are celebrating her life. A visitation with the family will be held on Wednesday June 21, 2017, 6-8 p.m., at Fellows, Helfenbein, Newnam Funeral Home, 106 Shamrock Road, Chester, MD. Her service will be held on Thursday, June 22, 2017, 11 a.m., at Christ Church, 830 Romancoke Road, in Stevensville, MD. Burial will follow the service in St. Anne’s Cemetery in Annapolis.

Christine W. Dyer

June 17, 1946 - June 17, 2017