Grace Maynard

Ms. Maynard was born in 1921 and grew up in the Windsor Hills neighborhood of Baltimore City, Maryland. She was the daughter of the late Helen Vail Maynard of Brooklyn, NY and William Hard Maynard of Williston, SC, who served 30 years as the Baltimore City Deputy States Attorney and rewrote the penal code for the State of Maryland. She was a 1939 graduate of Forest Park High School. After attending Eaton and Burnett Business College, she worked for the U.S. Army in Baltimore and Ft. Meade, the Baltimore Sun, and later at the Social Security Administration Candler Building before the agency moved to Woodlawn in 1960.

During World War II, Ms. Maynard married John Covington Jett from Baltimore in 1941. In 1943, she became she became a young widow when her husband John died in England. For the duration of the war, Mrs. Jett was an active volunteer for the Baltimore Red Cross and the Civilian Defense Committee at City Hall. She was also a member of the Gold Star Wives of America, and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

She later married Walter Robert Schlining of Catonsville, Maryland in 1948 and the couple moved to a small farm in Glenelg, Howard County where she enjoyed horseback riding and raising two young children. Three children were born during this marriage, Barbara Ann, William Maynard, and Victoria Vail. The couple moved back to Catonsville in the late 1950’s and had a third child. Their marriage ended in the mid 1970’s and Mrs. Schlining took back her maiden name, Maynard. She resided in Catonsville until 1995, then lived in Laurel for the next 15 years. She returned to her beloved Howard County and lived independently at Heartlands Senior Living in Ellicott City until her death.

Ms. Maynard was always fascinated with history and took many courses and seminars on antiques and furniture restoration beginning in 1961. Over the next 51 years, she became a successful antiques dealer and certified estate appraiser, traveled to England annually to purchase unique antiques, and sold her wares at many high-end antiques shows in the Baltimore/Washington area. Ms. Maynard is one of the original dealers in the Antiques Center at Historic Savage Mill, a premier source for antiques in the Mid-Atlantic region. She was a member of the Baltimore Glass Club and the International Society of Appraisers.

Ms. Maynard began her world travels with her friends and family in the early 1970’s and continued to explore far reaches for the next 30 years. She traveled throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, Egypt, and cruised the Mediterranean Sea. She also loved Ocean City, MD, a lifelong favorite vacation spot for her and her family.

Grace Maynard is survived by her 3 children, Barbara A. Witt and husband David of Venice, FL, William M. Schlining of Salisbury, and Victoria V. Schlining of Ellicott City; 5 grandchildren (Christopher L. Grove, Jeffrey L. Grove, Kyle R. Schlining, twins Mark A. and Michael A. Schlining), one great grandson Triston L. Grove, and one sister Julia St. Jean of Lewes, DE. Her sister Helen Maynard Wilson of Clarksburg, WV predeceased her in 1969.