FLORA FREEMAN

FLORA FREEMAN  
Flora Freeman, a longtime resident of Silver Spring, died at home following complications of heart disease on January 13, 2013. She was 91. She was born to John and Esther Navitt in Benares, India on November 21, 1921 and was a graduate of Isabella Thoburn College in Lucknow, India. She served as a volunteer at a large refugee camp in Kurukshetra during the period of India's independence and partitioning, working with young children and also teaching a Hindi language class. Her husband, Charles Freeman, was also working at Kurukshetra with the American Friends Service Committee at the time. They met at the camp in 1947 and were married in 1950. They moved to Silver Spring in 1961. She was a homemaker, raising three children, and was active in the community as long-time volunteer at the Holy Cross Hospital's adult day care center. She was also an active member of the Silver Spring Garden Club. She is survived by two daughters, Renuka McMahon and Anita Freeman, her son Sunil Freeman, and granddaughter, Esther McMahon Sanders. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., February 16 at the Riderwood Village chapel in Silver Spring, MD.