Marylinn Beall Carry

On Wednesday, May 6, 2020 Marylinn Beall Carry of Bethesda, MD, beloved wife of Charles A. Carry, Jr.; loving mother of Virginia F. Carry, Charles A. Carry, III, William B. Carry (Patricia), Patricia C. Smith (Graham) and the late Francesca C. Sheflett. Also she is survived by her seven grandchildren, Ashley, Natasha, Amanda, Brittany, Nicole, William, Jr., James, and also by numerous loving nieces and nephews.

Marylinn Beall Carry was born August 17, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan. She grew up in Dearborn and Northville, Michigan. By the time Marylinn was 14, she worked as a part-time secretary after school and Saturdays. When she came to Washington in the 1940s during World War II, she worked at the Pentagon as a statistical typist, a job she was suited for, scoring 100 words per minute with no errors on the civil service typing test. Following, she worked at Merkle Press and Ransdale. On a blind date on New Years Eve 1947, she met the love of her life, Charles A. Carry, Jr. and they were married in November 1948 in Washington, D.C. In 1950, they moved to Bethesda. In the 1950s and 1960s Marylinn was in the sodality of Our Lady of Lourdes and Our Lady of Mercy, being one of the original charter members of Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church. She was also active in the American Legion Auxiliary Fitzgerald-Cantrel Post 105 on Auburn Avenue in the 1960s and 1970s, organizing many fundraisers including spaghetti dinners, coordinating a fashion show on the local television program, “Inga’s Angle”, and hosting dances for the Vietnam veterans from Walter Reed Hospital. She served as president of the Auxiliary in 1968. In the late 1960s, she worked at Metropolitan Federal Savings and Loan Association. In the 1970s, she worked as an executive secretary at Control Data Corporation, Teledyne MEC and Martin Marietta. Among her hobbies, she loved to decorate, making her own curtains, gardening, and duckpin bowling. She was an absolute wonderful cook and loved to visit with all the family. She had a special gift of being able to walk out into the lawn, and pick several four leaf clovers in just a few minutes. She would save them and press them into her cookbook pages. We learned from her they are everywhere, if you just know how to look.

Services and Interment will be private.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in her name to the Salvation Army.