Marian A. Lieb Sheehan

Marian Audrey (nee Lieb) Sheehan, a homemaker, died June 9 of cancer at Stella Maris, Timonium. For the only time in her life she celebrated a birthday, her 96th, on April 24 on Easter, which rarely occurs on that date.

The first of seven children of Gerhardt Aloysius and Ida (nee Sauer) Lieb, Marian Lieb was born in Alton, Iowa. After graduating from high school she worked as a medical-office assistant in Sioux City, Iowa.

Marian Lieb met U.S. Army Air Forces officer T. Frank Sheehan, Jr., of Baltimore, while he was training in Sioux City during World War II. They married in 1946 and made their first home in Baltimore. Their marriage of 52 years ended with the death of Mr. Sheehan, a financial executive, in 1999. She lived the past two years at Mercy Ridge Retirement Community, Timonium.

Mrs. Sheehan worked for a number of years as a part-time sales clerk at Hutzler’s Towson in the store’s china department. A board member of the Women’s Club of Towson, Inc., she was active with the group’s arts and crafts, gardening, and other committees. Mrs. Sheehan enjoyed family gatherings and social functions. Skillful at upholstering furniture and sewing, she also created floral decorations and painted artistic eggshells and roofing slates with watercolor acrylics.

A charter member of the Loyola High School Mothers Club Bridge Club, Mrs. Sheehan also belonged to several bridge clubs. A daily communicant at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Towson, she served the parish as a Eucharistic Minister at GBMC and as a volunteer cleaned and pressed altar linens.

In 1941 the future Mrs. Sheehan undertook a motoring trip with five siblings from Sioux City to the summit of Pike’s Peak, Colorado. Subsequently, well into her 90s, she increasingly traveled with her husband and other family members from Baltimore to visit relatives in the Midwest and Southern California. She traveled to other Western states and Tijuana (Mexico), the South, Canada, the British Isles, Europe, Tangier (Morocco), Bermuda, and other destinations on numerous trips, including great nephews’ weddings in in Dana Point, California in 2001, Albuquerque in 2007, and Omaha in 2009. She drove her automobile until this past Autumn, and attended Towson’s Fourth of July parade nearly annually.

Marian Sheehan is survived by her children Thomas F. Sheehan III and life partner B. Allen Dooley, of Los Angeles; Kathleen S. Menges and husband Frank H. Menges, of Towson; and Mary S. Robinson and husband John M. Robinson, Jr., of Cockeysville. Her second son, Richard B. Sheehan, of Baltimore, died in 1991. Her grandchildren are Michael F. Menges and wife Hollie Mills; Robert T. Menges and wife Tracy and sons Jack and Wyatt; Daniel J. Menges and wife Leah; John M. Robinson, III; and Laura S. Robinson.

Mrs. Sheehan’s sisters are LaVerne Kelly of Long Beach, California, and Rita Treinen, of Sioux City. A sister, Rosemary Hines, and brothers Joseph, of St. Louis, Missouri; Louis, of Alton; and Thomas, of Sioux City, preceded her in death. Numerous nephews and nieces and their children and grandchildren survive her throughout the Baltimore region and around the country.

The family will receive friends in the Lemmon Funeral Home of Dulaney Valley, Inc. 10 W. Padonia Road (at York Road) Timonium, MD 21093 on Sunday, June 12 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 PM. A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered in the Stella Maris Chapel, 2300 Dulaney Valley Road, Timonium, MD 21093 on Monday, June 13 at 10 AM. Interment Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be directed in Marian Sheehan’s name to a charity of your choice.