Mary Evelyn Treadway

She served in the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve during World War II. She met her future husband of 65 years, Swithen Leo Roy Treadway, at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, California, where she worked as a clerk and he served as an instructor. She later attended the University of Kansas City (Missouri), where she studied business administration.

While her husband was employed with the Central Intelligence Agency, she raised four children. They lived primarily in Vienna, Virginia, but also served two tours of duty—one in Athens, Greece, and one in the Panama Canal Zone. After retirement, they moved to Shipman, Virginia, where they lived for almost 30 years.

Mrs. Treadway was an avid genealogist, and she published two volumes of family history: Yelverton Payton, My Ancestor and John Morgan Andrews and His Descendants. Her other passions included gardening and traveling. She particularly enjoyed taking her grandchildren on trips throughout the United States. In more recent years, she liked playing dominos and bingo at the Charlottesville Senior Center. At home, she always had a jigsaw puzzle in the works, and she loved playing Skip-bo with her family.

Mrs. Treadway died peacefully at her home in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Sunday, February 12, 2017. She is survived by four children and their spouses, Monica Treadway Newby and her husband, John Newby, of Greenville, North Carolina; Cynthia Treadway Bailey and her husband, Steve Bailey, of Richmond, Virginia; Deborah Treadway Newby and her husband, Carl Newby, of Arlington, Virginia; and Edward Roy Treadway and his wife, Cindy Bryant Treadway, of Richmond, Virginia. In addition, she is survived by nine grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at 11:30am on Friday, February 24 at Mullins and Thompson, Fredericksburg. Interment will follow at Quantico National Cemetery.