Anna T. Springer, an Anneslie homemaker who was known for her baked goods, died of Alzheimer's disease Sunday at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. She was 94.
The daughter of Joseph Timko, a coal miner, and Anna Gyurko Timko, a homemaker, Anna Timko was born in Eckley, Pa., and raised in the anthracite coal communities of eastern Pennsylvania.
After graduating in 1940 from Foster Township High School in Freeland, Pa., she moved to Baltimore and went to work at Bendix Radio Corp. in Towson.
She later met and fell in love with John E. Springer, a baker whose family owned and operated John C. Springer Cakes and Pastries in the 2200 block of E. Monument St.
In 1948, they married, and the couple settled into a home on Anneslie Road in Anneslie, where she lived for 66 years.
After her time at Bendix, she worked in the family business until it closed in 1956, then became a full-time homemaker.
Her daughter, JoAnne Springer Matschulat of Anneslie, said Mrs. Springer was an accomplished baker known for her graham cracker bars, coconut cake and chocolate fleck cake — a yellow cake with flecks of chocolate, topped by a whipped-cream icing.
When St. Pius X Roman Catholic Church in Rodgers Forge opened in 1959, she became an active communicant and volunteered in both the church and its parochial school.
Since 2014, Mrs. Springer had lived with her daughter. She was a world traveler and had visited Europe, Greece and Hawaii.
Her husband, who became an Armco Steel Corp. steelworker, died in 1989.
Mrs. Springer donated her body to the Maryland Anatomy Board.
A memorial Mass will be offered at 11 a.m. Friday at her church, 6428 York Road.
In addition to her daughter, she is survived by two granddaughters. A son, John Joseph Springer, died in 1960.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen