Marion E. ‘Elain’ House, a longtime Lansdowne High School physical education instructor and coach, dies – Baltimore Sun
Marion E. “Elain” Household, whose job as a bodily schooling instructor and award-successful coach at Lansdowne Significant University spanned far more than three many years, died from bladder cancer Thursday at her Linthicum home. She was 76.
“Elain was cherished by every person. She was type and genuinely cared about the young ones,” mentioned Sarajane V. Quinn, who taught and labored with Ms. Home at Lansdowne High Faculty for 18 several years. “She lived in the community, understood the children and was absolutely devoted to Lansdowne Significant School for far more than 30 years. She was one of the ideal abilities academics I have at any time regarded.”
Sherry L. Moore, a professor and assistant director of experiential training at Notre Dame of Maryland, was a member of the Course of 1988 at Lansdowne.
“I was also her college student and training assistant my senior calendar year, which was a single of the highlights of my lifetime at Lansdowne,” explained Ms. Moore. “She impacted my lifestyle and taught me how to mentor and be an advocate for learners. She was just an amazing individual, and I will usually be grateful for what she taught me.”
Marion Elain Property — she usually utilised her middle name — was the daughter of Cecil E. Home, a phone organization lineman, and Marjorie O. House, an accountant and homemaker, was born in Lawrenceville, Virginia, and moved in the early 1950s with her family members to Severna Park.
Ms. House was a 1964 graduate of Severna Park Higher College and attained a bachelor’s degree in 1968 from what is now Frostburg State University.
“She was a lovely athlete and, when she was taking part in lacrosse, was incredibly fluid,” reported Ms. Quinn, a mate of Ms. House’s for 50 several years who later remaining Lansdowne and grew to become coordinator for wellness, physical training, fantastic arts and dance for Baltimore County General public Faculties.
Ms. Home put in her total vocation at Lansdowne, instructing physical education and health, as perfectly as coaching lacrosse, basketball and golf, and urging her younger costs to be the “best you can.”
“Our championships are a credit rating to her potential,” Ms. Quinn mentioned. “Baltimore County Community Faculties is the 25th major in the place, and her achievement seriously says a little something. She was easygoing and did not get rattled. I was conversing to a Dulaney coach the other working day, (and she explained) that she anxious about enjoying in opposition to Elain because she generally would occur up with a thing.”
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“Parents cherished her, as well,” Ms. Quinn reported. “She was a heat and caring person who would pay attention to young children and check out and enable them with their problems.”
Ms. Moore claimed: “She often challenged herself but was modest and humble and hardly ever bragged. She was often pushing us and was most happy of what we attained.”
She additional: “As a trainer, she was an advocate, and she was also an advocate for life in general. She was this sort of a all-natural at whichever she did.”
Ms. Home worked for the Maryland State Basketball Event for 30 decades and also taught lacrosse at Towson University. An attained golfer, she labored in the professional shop at Fairway Hills Golf Club in Columbia for 23 many years.
Ms. Moore and Ms. Property performed golf jointly usually and were the two associates of the Carroll Park League.
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“She also knew how to have pleasurable,” Ms. Moore mentioned.. “She loved birds and nature, and when we were on the program, she was always pointing out that this bird was an oriole or that a single was a bluebird or this nest belonged to what variety of chook.”
Ms. House’s hobbies also provided developing bluebird residences and gardening, spouse and children users stated.
Ms. Home retired from Lansdowne Large School in 1999.
In addition, she was a longtime volunteer with the Maryland Point out Board of Elections.
She and her spouse of 25 yrs, Denise L. Kittle, a retired Baltimore County Public Educational institutions paraeducator, whom she married 9 several years back, have been avid vacationers. They primarily appreciated going to Alaska and Aruba and spending time at their second dwelling in Rehoboth Beach front, Delaware.
Funeral solutions will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Gary L. Kaufman Funeral Home at Meadowridge Memorial Park, 7520 Washington Blvd., Elkridge.
In addition to her spouse, Ms. Residence is survived by a 50 percent brother, Allen Flinchum of Severna Park, and a nephew.
