Rena Cecilia "Winnie" German, an owner of an electrical contracting business, died of complications from a stroke Tuesday at the Chester River Hospital Center in Chestertown. She was 79 and lived in Ocean City.
Born Rena Cecilia Clark in Baltimore, she was the daughter Michael and Lottie Grain Clark, who lived in Irvington. She attended St. Joseph's Monastery School and was a 1950 graduate of Seton High School, where she excelled in basketball. She married Garrett German in January 1952.
Mrs. German worked many years in her father's trucking business, Hart and Clark Transfer Co. on Ridgely Street, Southwest Baltimore, and was vice president of Garrett Electrical Contractors, an Annapolis Road business she started with her husband.
In 1976, she and her husband moved the business, now called Garrett German and Sons Electrical Contractors, from Baltimore to the Eastern Shore. They lived in Kent Island Estates until retiring to Ocean City in 1997.
She was a member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church in Woodlawn and belonged to the Catholic Daughters of America.
She enjoyed tenpins bowling and growing roses and other flowers. She also enjoyed animals.
Plans for a life celebration are incomplete.
In addition to her husband of 59 years, she is survived by two sons, Garry German of Woodlawn and Clark German of Church Hill; two daughters, Terry Coughlin and Patty Schwink, both of Stevensville; a brother, Michael Clark of Baltimore; a sister, Patricia Trusheim of Clearwater Beach, Fla.; and six grandchildren.