Agnes W. Jones, a retired secretary who enjoyed Maryland history and collecting four-leaf clovers, died of heart failure Feb. 7 at the Pickersgill retirement community in Towson. She was 87.
Agnes Weems Woollen was born in Lothian and raised on Meadow Brook Farm, her family's Anne Arundel County farm. She was a 1938 graduate of the old Hannah More Academy in Reisterstown.
Mrs. Jones worked for 17 years as a secretary for the Mental Health Association of Maryland. Earlier, she had been a secretary at the Bendix radio division in Towson and at the Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation in Baltimore.
She was married in 1942 to William R. Jones, a Bethlehem Steel Corp. purchasing agent, who died in 1980.
The former longtime Timonium resident enjoyed art, poetry and listening to classical music. She liked to travel and sew, and had assembled a large library devoted to Maryland history.
For years, Mrs. Jones volunteered with the blind, and her philanthropic interests included the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Walters Art Museum.
"She had a very unique ability in finding four-leaf clovers and had dozens of them she had saved as keepsakes stuffed into books and envelopes," said a niece, Beth Beamesderfer of Hartly, Del.
"In this age of fast food and frantic pace, she never ate a slice of pizza or pumped her own gas," Mrs. Beamesderfer said. "The way she lived her life was a wonderful example for her nieces, nephews and to all young people of dignity, compassion and love."
Mrs. Jones was a longtime communicant of Sherwood Episcopal Church in Cockeysville, where services were held Tuesday.
She is survived by several nieces and nephews.
Frederick N. Rasmussen