ANNA M. MacCARTHY

MacCARTHY ANNA M. MacCARTHY (Age 101) After expressing her final wish to her children that they "remain close together and close to God", Anna died peacefully of natural causes in the early morning hours of November 5, 2014 at her home in NW Washington. Agreeing with her husband, Shane MacCarthy, that their boys be given Irish names and their girls, German names, Anna gave birth to Shane (Karen), Kevin, Timothy (Marilu), Patrick (Mary Beth) and Michael. Upon graduation from Trinity College (now Trinity Washington University) in 1934 with a degree in mathematics and marrying the love of her life, Shane Sr., on Labor Day Monday, 1936, Anna unhesitatingly and joyfully devoted her life to the raising of her five sons. She continued to lavish her children with love and attention in her senior years, living through the deaths of her husband in 1983 and her son, Timothy, in 2010. A proud third generation Washingtonian and eldest child of Charles and Annie Berberich Ruppert, Anna was a devout Catholic and an active member of Blessed Sacrament and Annunciation parishes. In her later years, claiming the privilege of age, Anna frequently offered observations that were spot-on and therefore occasionally surprising, given her otherwise polite nature. That made her fun to be around. In the best sense, Anna was truly a great dame, loved and missed by all, particularly her children; her surviving sibling, Dorothy Ruppert Gambrill; her grand children, Nathalie, Katherine, Brendan, Valérie, Brian, Sean and Sarah MacCarthy; and her great-grandchildren, Quinn, Brogan, Gabriel, Sebastian, Juliana and Samantha. The family will receive relatives and friends at Collins Funeral Home, 500 University Boulevard West, Silver Spring, MD, on Friday, November 14 from 3 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. with a special sharing of memories starting at 8 p.m. The Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at the Church of the Annunciation, 3810 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC on Saturday, November 15th, at 11:30 a.m. Anna's children will welcome friends before the Mass, beginning at 10:45 a.m. Burial will follow immediately after Mass at St. Mary's Cemetery, Washington, DC after which there will be a joyful gathering and light lunch in the Rose Parlor of Trinity Washington University. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions to Anna's favorite charity, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Metro DC Chapter can be made on-line - see: cff.org/chapters/metrodc - or through mail at 6931 Arlington Road, Suite B, Bethesda, MD 20814.In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions to Anna's favorite charity, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Metro DC Chapter can be made on-line - see: cff.org/chapters/metrodc - or through mail at 6931 Arlington Road, Suite B, Bethesda, MD 20814.