Dana Lyn Seifert

11/05/1948 - 03/22/2026

Dana Lyn (Canfield) Seifert ("Mrs. Seifert") loved her many students and loved teaching them Elementary and High School History and Social Studies for almost 50 years.
Dana passed away peacefully at the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington in Rockville, Maryland on Sunday, March 22, 2026.
Born on November 5, 1948, in Wichita, Kansas, the eldest daughter of Richard Canfield and Mailyn (McClintock) Canfield, Dana grew up in Wichita, Kansas and for a while in Long Beach, California before returning to Wichita.
Dana attended and graduated from Wichita High School South in 1966 and then studied history, social studies and teaching at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, where she graduated with a BA in history, social studies and teaching in 1970. Dana did her student teaching in the public school system of Newton, Kansas and later completed her master's studies and beyond at the Emporia State College in Emporia, Kansas.
Dana met her future husband, Roger E. Seifert, at Friends University in 1966, where both were very active in student government and the Friends University Model United Nations program and conferences. Dana served as student U.N. Secretary of the General Assembly. Dana also served as the elected Secretary of the 1970 Friends University Senior Class.
Dana and Roger moved to Washington, D.C. in 1973, where Roger was a graduate economics teaching assistant student at American University and Dana taught history at the Saint Mary's Catholic School in Piscataway, Maryland. Roger and Dana were married on November 10, 1973 in Westley Heights, D.C. and then moved to Chevy Chase, Maryland and later to Gaithersburg, Maryland, where they were active in their community.
Danas' and Rogers' only child, then Jennifer Lyn Seifert, was born on January 14, 1982, just after Dana and Roger drove in deep snow to get to the hospital in Olney, Md., just after the historic D.C. blizzard and the Air Florida airplane crash.
Dana credited her teachers at Friends University with her five-decades long career in teaching and love of her students. After Newton, and Piscataway, Dana taught at the Hebrew Academy of Rockville, Maryland, a Catholic school in Wheaton, Maryland and then taught five years at Winston Churchill High School in the Mongomery County Mayland School System in Potomac, Maryland, prior to her retirement in the summer of 2020.
Dana's other Loves were her daughter Jennifer and the ponies and horses the family shared together. It started with small ponies and followed with hunter, jumper, dressage Welsh Cobb pure white Tamarack Watchfob (Tim) and then proceeded to a Dressage and Musical Freestyle "Lundquist Competition" Dressage Championship with Hanoverian Thoroughbred horse Cowboy, and later more Dressage with Dutch Warmblood horse Zip Code (Zippy). Dana, Jennifer and Roger were active members of the Potomac Pony Club, the Potomac Valley Dressage Association and the U.S. Dressage Federation. Dana was a strong, yet loving, "Horse Show Mom".
Dana is survived by her husband Roger; their daughter Jennifer Lyn (Seifert) Covey; her two grand-daughters Lylah Lyn Covey and Sydney Lyn Covey of Franconia, N.H; her sister Laurie (Canfield) Williams of Wichita, Kansas and her brother Michael Canfield of Wichita, Kansas. Another brother, Dennis Canfield, of Eugene, Oregon, predeceased Dana.
Interment for Dana, and later Roger, will be in the Old Mission Cemetery in Wichita, Kansas.
In remembrance of Dana (Canfield) Seifert, Memorial donations may be made to the Days End Farm Horse Rescue located at 1372 Woodbine Road in Woodbine, Maryland 21797.