JACQUELYN R. EWING

EWING JACQUELYN RANDOLPH EWING (nee KNAPP) On December 30, 2013, of Potomac, MD. Daughter of Captain John Harrison Knapp, USN and Frances Maitland Marshall, and granddaughter of Brigadier General William L. Marshall, former Chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacquelyn was born on June 1, 1923, in Washington, DC. She spent her childhood between Washington, DC and Vallejo and Los Angeles, CA, where her father was stationed with the US Navy. Jacque worked as an Administrative Assistant at the U.S. State Department in Washington, DC until her marriage to Richard Tucker Ewing, State Department Foreign Service Officer, on April 26, 1947. Together they were stationed in Bern, Switzerland; Taipei, Taiwan; and Rangoon, Burma. They settled at Chance Farm in Rockville, MD, and retired to Red Hall in Dunkirk, MD, where her husband died on April 16, 1998. Jacque then moved to Sumner Village in Bethesda, MD. She spent her last two years at Emeritus of Potomac, MD. Jacque was an active volunteer in many community organizations in the DC area as well as diplomatic posts abroad. In addition, she served on the Women's Board of Columbia Hospital and for over 60 years was a member of the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America (District of Columbia Society) and the Sulgrave Club. Jacquelyn is survived by her six children: Maitland Marshall Lammert of St. Louis, MO; Sara Ewing Davis of Falls Church, VA; Richard Tucker Ewing, Jr. of Bethesda, MD; Elizabeth Harrison Ewing of Arlington, VA; Alpharetta Tucker Ewing of New York, NY; and John Randolph Ewing of Dubai, UAE. She has nine grandchildren: Richard Tucker Ewing Lammert, Meredith Pierce Lammert Shrinivas, Elizabeth Maitland Davis, William Christopher Marshall Davis, Jane Tucker Randolph Ewing, John Taylor Harrison Ewing, Mark Uttrup Ewing, Emma Uttrup Ewing, and Lilia Meilan Poteat. A memorial service will be held on February 1, 2014 at 11 a.m. at St. John's Episcopal Church of McLean, Virginia. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Jacquelyn's name to the Richard T. Ewing, Sr. Scholarship Fund at Norwood School, 8821 River Road, Bethesda, MD, 20817 or to the Alzheimer's Association (P.O. Box 96011, Washington, DC 20090-6011) by making a donation to the Jacquelyn R. Ewing Memorial Fund on the tribute page at http://www.alz.org or by calling 1-800-272-3900.