Louise T. Trussell's Obituary
Louise Thrall Trussell, age 87, passed peacefully at her daughter's Milton, DE home surrounded by family members and her card buddies on May 21, 2009.
She was the wife of Howard Marshall Trussell, with whom she shared 49 years of marriage. He predeceased her in 1991. Born October 11, 1921, in Washington, DC, she was the daughter of the late Walter H. and Carrie Bird (Moser) Thrall. She graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, DC. Married in December 1941. World War II kept the couple apart for most of the following four years. After their reunion at the end of the war, three daughters and one son were born over the next 10 years. Louise was an avid bridge player and a homemaker extraordinaire, actively participating in the lives of her family. She was active in Girl and Boy Scouts. At the age of 50, when her husband became the civilian Chief of Logistics for the Department of Defense in Okinawa, she took her first plane ride to get there and from then on until the year before her death, she traveled the world.
Louise was involved for years with the Embroiderer's Guild of America and studied Silk embroidery with master craftsmen from Japan and China, exhibiting her work many times and was recognized as an outstanding craftswoman herself. She also mastered Scandinavian style Hardanger embroidery. After returning from Okinawa, she and Howard lived in Reston, VA and Columbia, MD. After Howard died, she lived for 14 years in Minnetonka, MN near her son and his family.
She is survived by daughter Stephanie Babcock and husband William of Renton, WA, daughter Adrienne Scott of Milton, DE, son Howard Trussell, Jr. and wife Marti of Fargo, ND, and daughter Pamela Quam of Denver, CO; six grandchildren, Gretchen Coulthurst and husband Rob, Jessie Babcock, Adam Scott, Diana Trussell, Domineque Scott and Glenn Trussell; and great-grandsons, Ethan and Evan Coulthurst.
A Memorial Service will be held Tuesday, May 26, 11:00 AM, at Parsell Funeral Homes & Crematorium, Atkins-Lodge Chapel, 16961 Kings Highway, Lewes, DE (www.parsellfuneralhomes.com) Interment will be private.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in Louise's memory to St. Edward The Confessor Episcopal Church, 865 Ferndale Road N, Wayzata, MN 55391 or Delaware Hospice Center, 100 Patriots Way, Milford, DE 19963.
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