Wendy Bishop, most recently of Fairfax City, Virginia, died unexpectedly on March 30, 2019. She was born onboard the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGC) Twenty-nine Palms, California on March 10, 1984. She spent her early childhood there and at the Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. She attended kindergarten through twelfth grade in Waldorf, Maryland, graduating in the top 10 of her Thomas Stone High School class overall and the top for English. She then obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, majoring in Biochemistry. She worked as a Veterinary Lab Technician in Friendship Heights, in the District of Columbia, before going back to get a second degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, graduating with High Honors and excellence in Microbiology. She spent several years lending her professional expertise to the University of Maryland Medical Center, moving on to work as a Medical Lab Scientist at the National Institute of Health, specializing first in Sterility and later Mycology. Wendy was a bright and dedicated professional, one who exhibited grace and gentleness of spirit, one who reached out to others in empathy and friendship, and one who radiated an inner light borne of kindness and compassion. She loved the outdoors, frequenting Shenandoah and other National Parks and Monuments. She dearly loved two Malamutes, Chewy and Caroline. Wendy lived her life in accordance with her firm belief that caring matters.
Wendy is survived by her father, David Miles Bishop of Fairfax, Virginia, her mother, Sandra Kay Olson Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin, and her brother, Christopher Ray Bishop, also of Madison.
Her family suggests, in lieu of flowers, honoring her by donating to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America https://members.adaa.org/donations/donate.asp? (they indicate that they will not put you on a mailing list--notify David Bishop [email protected]). Alternatively, one could, as an act of caring for others, donate blood or platelets, at NIH https://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/blooddonor/platelet_home.html or at a Red Cross Center near you https://www.redcrossblood.org, this is a cause Wendy was passionate about.
After her memorial service, she will be further celebrated at a Mass in Madison, Wisconsin, and interred with her grandparents in Nashwauk, Minnesota.
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