Jack Mowll, a retired transportation consultant who was a conservation advocate in the Back River Neck area of eastern Baltimore County, died of pneumonia Jan. 14 at ManorCare Rossville. He was 95 and had lived in Essex and downtown Baltimore.
He was born in Cleveland and graduated from Lee Jackson High School in Matthews, Va. He moved to Baltimore when his father sought work here during the Depression. In 1937, the family bought a home on Sue Creek, where Mr. Mowll lived for many years. He enlarged the house and later became an activist for waterfront preservation.
At 22, he left a job as a secretary at the Crown, Cork & Seal factory in Highlandtown to become a crewman aboard the Sardinian Prince, a British cargo vessel. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps as a weatherman.
After the war, he earned a political science degree at the Johns Hopkins University. He later received a doctorate in geography from Hopkins.
Mr. Mowll became a transportation consultant. Family members said he analyzed the transit system in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and advised a transportation minister in the Philippines. He also worked in Iran and Taiwan.
He built a 38-foot trimaran that he planned to sail to Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of Argentina, but never made the trip.
Services were held Jan. 22.
Survivors include his wife of 21 years, Milagros Albrando; a son, Kenneth Usher Mowll of Minneapolis; two daughters, Felicia Albrando Mowll of New York City and Nancy Mowll Matthews of Williamstown, Mass.; and two grandchildren. A previous marriage to Slava Matthews ended in divorce.