Mary Patricia "Pat" Cammack

Mary Patricia "Pat" Cammack

Mary Cammack Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers on Feb. 18, 2008.
Cammack, Mary "Pat" Patricia Waters (Age 81) of Leonardtown, MD and formerly of Prince Frederick, MD died January 14, 2008 at her home "Hampton" in Leonardtown MD. Born March 26, 1926 in St. Augustine, FL she was the oldest daughter of the late Joseph Borrows and Rosalind Torreyson Bailey Waters, Jr. The family lived in University Park (Prince George's County), MD. She attended Hyattsville High School and graduated from Dunbarton College of Holy Cross "Class of 1947" with a B.A. in French. She also attended Washington School for Secretaries and worked at the Department of State, I.A.D. Division, for ten years. In 1958 she started to work for her father in Prince Frederick at his real estate office, J.B. Waters and Associates. Pat married Robert Edmund Cammack of Washington, D.C. at the historic St. Francis Xavier Church in Newtowne Neck, MD in 1964. She resided for the rest of her life in St. Mary's County at "Hampton", Medley's Neck, MD. She is survived by her husband, five children, thirteen grandchildren, sister Rosalind Jeanne Waters Zseleczky of Temple Hills, MD and brother Joseph Borrows Waters III of Port Republic, MD. The family received friends on Friday, January 18, 2008 in their home on Hampton Farm in Medley's Neck, MD. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Saturday, January 19, 2008 in Our Lady's Catholic Church, Medley's Neck, MD with Fr. Thomas LaHood officiating and Deacon Thomas Spalding co-officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were: William D. Cammack, Thomas J. Cammack, William H. Marley, Jr., Matthew B. Girod, Iric J. Krissoff and James P. Rice. Arrangements provided by the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, P.A.

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