Fleeta "Lee" Passon

Fleeta Lorraine (Woolery) Passon of Annapolis, MD died peacefully at home after a three year illness, on Friday, January 29, 2010, with her husband of 46 years, Robert D. Passon, at her side, as well as her family, under the services of the Hospice of the Chesapeake. She was 86. Born on May 16, 1923 to Ollie Belle Whittle and Ernest Delmar Woolery of Iberia, Missouri, Fleeta, or Lee as she was so fondly called was brought up in Missouri Ozarks farmland with Midwestern values and was one of 11 children. After graduating from High School, she worked in a sewing factory during the war and met and married her first husband, Harry R. Bannon, who recently passed away. She had four children, Patricia A. Bannon, Barbara Louise Bannon Beard, Karon Jan Bannon Miller and the late Sharon Kay Bannon Griffith who passed away in 2007. She moved to Linthicum in 1956 and worked for the Westinghouse Corporation until her retirement in 1988. Lee met, and married Robert Donald Passon in 1964, devoted to assisting her in raising the remaining three children. Lee's hobbies included watching basketball, cooking and gardening, her four children, eight loving grandchildren and 11 wonderful great-grandchildren. She enjoyed reading to them and teaching them the meaning of family and hard work, often in her gardens. During her illness, the family recalled many fond memories and stories of their grandmother’s escapades. Her remaining siblings, two brothers, Nile and Coleman, both of Missouri, a sister, Juanita of Delaware. She was preceded in death by her parents, her daughter, three brothers and four sisters. Family and Friends may call at Fellows, Helfenbein and Newnam Cremation and Funeral Care, P.A., 814 Bestgate Road, Annapolis, MD 21401 on Monday, February 1, 2010 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. A Funeral Service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Entombment will follow at Bestgate Memorial Park Mausoleum. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in her name to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105. Arrangements handled by Fellows, Helfenbein & Newnam Cremation and Funeral Care, P.A., Annapolis, MD. For inquiries please call 410-897-4852

Fleeta "Lee" Passon

May 16, 1923 - January 29, 2010