Gertrude Gabrielle "Gebby" Fellows, a painter and volunteer, died Jan. 20 of a stroke at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 92.
Gertrude Gabrielle Gephardt was born in Somerville, N.J., and raised in New York City and on Long Island.
She attended Cornell University and studied art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her first job was working as a synchronized swimmer in Billy Rose's Aquacade, which performed at the Great Lakes Exposition in 1936 and 1937, and later at the 1939 New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows Park.
She later was a buyer for the old B. Altman department store in New York City.
She was married in 1952 to Joseph C. Coyne, an Alcoa executive, and for the next two decades lived in Seattle before being transferred to Baltimore in 1972. He died in 1987.
Mrs. Fellows volunteered at Bryn Mawr School and Greater Baltimore Medical Center. She also helped organize the first Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's Decorators Show House and later was chairwoman of the gift shop at Hampton Mansion in Towson.
After the death of her first husband, she moved to Melbourne, Fla., in 1987. The next year, she married Carl Fellows, who died in 1991.
Mrs. Fellows was an accomplished landscape and still-life artist who worked in oils.
She returned to Baltimore in 2007, and since that time had lived at Brightview Mays Chapel Ridge retirement community.
Services were held at the retirement community Monday.
Surviving are a daughter, Joanne Hall of Ruxton; and three grandchildren.