Norma Jean Dove “Nana”, 85 of Lusby, MD formerly from Broomes Island, MD passed away at Calvert Memorial Hospital, Prince Frederick, MD on Thursday, May 22, 2014. She was born on January 25, 1929 in Buffalo, NY to the late Edward Francis Dekdebrun and Cecilia Margaret Cleary Dekdebrun. Norma grew up in and around Buffalo. She attended Bennett High School where she graduated in 1947. She worked for the A&P Grocery chain for several years both in Buffalo and Niagara Falls, NY. She married George Harvey (Jack) Dove on November 1, 1957, and she along with her daughter from a previous marriage, moved to Jack’s home, Broome’s Island, MD. She became a homemaker but she also worked in the river alongside her husband, oystering, gill net fishing, and crabbing. For a city girl, she took to her new life style as though she were born into it. She loved packing a big picnic lunch to take on the boat on weekends with the family. She enjoyed fishing and spending the day on the water. She went to work as a Star Route mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service from 1971 until she retired in 1987. She worked out of […]
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