Margaret Y Warren

Margaret Virginia Yeomans Warren, 90, a nursing educator and Registered Nurse for some sixty years, died October 11 after a brief illness. Ms. Warren was a professor of nursing at Prince Georges Community College, and on the nursing faculty of Washington Technical Institute. She also worked as an RN at various Washington hospitals.

Ms.Warren, who died at Ingleside at Rock Creek retirement community in Washington, D.C., received her nursing education at St. Francis Hospital in La Crosse, Wis., and her BS and MS at Catholic University. She was predeceased by her husband Albert, a journalist and publisher at Warren Communications News, which publishes Communications Daily among other trade publications.

A lifelong Washington resident, Ms. Warren grew up in Mt. Rainier, Md. She graduated from St. Cecilia's High School on Capitol Hill. While there she was Student Council president and a member of its Catholic high school girls D.C. basketball championship team.

Service to others was her guiding standard. Her range of service included making meals for Zacchaeus Kitchen for some thirty years, tutoring girls at the Washington Middle School for Girls in Anacostia and at a youth program in Adams Morgan, working at Montgomery County Thrift Shop in Bethesda, delivering Meals on Wheels, and sorting much-beloved books at Chevy Chase Library. She personally nursed friends on their deathbeds, found jobs for the unemployed, and paid for the education of needy children.

Ms. Warren for many years was a part-time antique dealer, specializing in primitive antiques.

She was a daily communicant at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Chevy Chase, DC, and a member of the Sanctuary Sodality.

She is survived by her six children, Ellen Warren (Wade Nelson) of Chicago, Ill.; Paul Warren (Katherine Norton Warren) of Chevy Chase, Md.; Claire Warren, M.D. of Stonington, Conn.; Daniel Warren (Kerry Foley, M.D.) of Chevy Chase, Md.; Thomas Warren (Deborah Shuster, M.D.) of Oakland, Calif.; and Joan Warren (Dan May) of Oakland, Calif.

In addition, she is survived by grandchildren Christopher Warren (Julie Kachniasz), Timothy (Anne Addison) Warren, Marie Warren, Lucy Warren, Ted (Sarah) Nelson, Emmett Nelson, Ben (Jenn) Shiling, Noah Shiling, Dan Shiling; David Warren, Stuart Warren and Helen Warren; Olivia May and Paul May.

She is also survived by her four great grandchildren: Leah and Adrianna Shiling, Jacoby Shiling; and Gabriel Matthew Warren.

Calling hours in honor of Margaret Warren will be from 5 to 7 PM Friday on Oct. 26, at Gawler's Funeral Home, 5130 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. A tribute in her honor will be held from 7 to 8PM in the Chapel at Gawler's. Her Memorial Mass will be on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 11 a.m. at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, 3630 Quesada St. NW, Washington, D.C. Burial at Arlington Cemetery will be at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in the name of Margaret Warren to Washington Middle School for Girls, 1901 Mississippi Ave S.E., Washington, D.C. 20020, or Planned Parenthood, 1108 16th St NW, Washington, D.C. 20036.