Miss Marjorie Pearl Hefren, known far and wide as Auntie, age 102, of Ijamsville, MD, died September 6, 2015. Miss Hefren was born in Hertford, North Carolina, March 28, 1913, to the late A. Wayne Hefren and Josephine Skinner Hefren. She graduated in 1938 from the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation, she taught for five years in the high schools of North Carolina. During World War II, Miss Hefren moved to Washington, DC and worked as an administrative assistant with the War Shipping Administration and later helped open a War Shipping office in New York City. After the war, she stayed in New York City and worked for fifteen years as an administrative assistant with the Irving Trust Company (now Bank of New York Mellon). In 1962, she moved to Ijamsville, Maryland, and until her retirement, worked as a budget analyst at the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute for Science and Technology), in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Miss Hefren was preceded in death by a sister, Mrs. Josephine Hollingsworth and her husband, Samuel Shorey Hollingsworth and a niece and nephew. Surviving are two nieces, Mrs. Victoria Hollingsworth Nicodemus and Mrs. Marjorie Hollingsworth Schroeder and her husband, Dr. Stephen Schroeder, two great-nieces, Miss Jennifer Ann Nicodemus and Mrs. Katherine Pleasants Schroeder- Smith and her husband, Mr. Justin Alan Smith, two great-nephews, Mr. Joshua Courtney Nicodemus and his wife, Mrs. Kristina Brown Nicodemus, and Mr. Samuel Milton Schroeder, four great-great-nieces, Sophia Hahnna Smith, Scarlett Rebecca Smith, Olivia Pearl Nicodemus, and Julia Rose Nicodemus, and one great-great nephew, Sawyer Shorey Smith, all of Ijamsville, Maryland. There will be no funeral service. The family requests that anyone wishing to should donate to their favorite charity in Miss Hefren's name.
