Obituary for Marjorie Ann Lippy
Marjorie Lippy (maiden name: Marjorie Ann Klepper) was born in 1929 in West Baltimore to Margaret and Charles Klepper. She attended Western High School and Towson State Teacher’s College (now Towson State University), where she was crowned “May Queen” during its May Day celebration in 1949. In 1950, she and her parents moved from the city to a farm in Upperco, Maryland, where she met T. Edward Lippy, whom she married in 1957. Marjorie was an elementary school teacher at Pikesville Elementary School, The Calvert School, and Sandymount Elementary School until their two children, Meg and Tod, were born in the early 1960s.
Marjorie was recertified as a teacher at Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College) in the early 1970s, and she received her M.A. in Media Studies from the college in 1977. In that period, she secured a position as Media Specialist at Taneytown Middle School, and she later served as an Adjunct Faculty member in Media Studies at Western Maryland College.
Marjorie was involved in numerous community and charitable organizations throughout her life. She was a Girl Scout troop leader; a President of the Hampstead Parent-Teacher Association (PTA); a Sunday school teacher at Wesley United Methodist Church in Hampstead, Maryland; and a Trustee of Christ Lutheran Church in Trenton, Maryland. She read novels for the blind at the Radio Reading Network of Maryland for more than 10 years, and was a docent at the Hampton Mansion, part of the Hampton National Historic Site in Towson, Maryland, for many years. Marjorie also served as a longtime advisory board member of the Maryland Acupuncture Society, and was a Trustee of Western Maryland College from 1984 to 2001.
A devoted wife, mother, daughter, and grandmother, Marjorie always found time for friends and family, and could be counted on to visit and support (and often provide a home-cooked meal or arrangement of hand-picked flowers from her garden for) those in need. An intensely creative person, Marjorie was an accomplished artist and writer (whose memoir about her childhood during World War II was published in Inkling, the literary journal of Fairhaven Retirement Community), an avid reader and piano player, and an actor, who starred in a production of Deathtrap at Western Maryland College in 1989.
Marjorie is survived by her husband T. Edward Lippy, daughter Meg Galletti, son Tod Lippy, sons-in-law Peter Galletti and David Hariton, and grandson Thomas Galletti.
A celebration of Marjorie’s life is planned for the late spring when gatherings are again safe.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Marjorie’s honor to John Hopkins COVID-19 Response.
Marjorie was recertified as a teacher at Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College) in the early 1970s, and she received her M.A. in Media Studies from the college in 1977. In that period, she secured a position as Media Specialist at Taneytown Middle School, and she later served as an Adjunct Faculty member in Media Studies at Western Maryland College.
Marjorie was involved in numerous community and charitable organizations throughout her life. She was a Girl Scout troop leader; a President of the Hampstead Parent-Teacher Association (PTA); a Sunday school teacher at Wesley United Methodist Church in Hampstead, Maryland; and a Trustee of Christ Lutheran Church in Trenton, Maryland. She read novels for the blind at the Radio Reading Network of Maryland for more than 10 years, and was a docent at the Hampton Mansion, part of the Hampton National Historic Site in Towson, Maryland, for many years. Marjorie also served as a longtime advisory board member of the Maryland Acupuncture Society, and was a Trustee of Western Maryland College from 1984 to 2001.
A devoted wife, mother, daughter, and grandmother, Marjorie always found time for friends and family, and could be counted on to visit and support (and often provide a home-cooked meal or arrangement of hand-picked flowers from her garden for) those in need. An intensely creative person, Marjorie was an accomplished artist and writer (whose memoir about her childhood during World War II was published in Inkling, the literary journal of Fairhaven Retirement Community), an avid reader and piano player, and an actor, who starred in a production of Deathtrap at Western Maryland College in 1989.
Marjorie is survived by her husband T. Edward Lippy, daughter Meg Galletti, son Tod Lippy, sons-in-law Peter Galletti and David Hariton, and grandson Thomas Galletti.
A celebration of Marjorie’s life is planned for the late spring when gatherings are again safe.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Marjorie’s honor to John Hopkins COVID-19 Response.