2007
Mary Elizabeth Shoemaker Jarrell, 100, who was president of a Washington real estate and insurance company, died July 27 of
a stroke at Holy Cross Hospital. She lived in Silver Spring.
Mrs. Jarrell was a busy housewife and mother when her husband of 27 years, Karl E. Jarrell, died in 1953. She then assumed
the presidency of the family business that he ran, the Thos. E. Jarrell Co., which was founded by her father-in-law in the early
1920s.
She managed the small business until 1987, when she retired at 80 and sold it.
A Washington native, she graduated from old Central High School in 1924 and attended George Washington University.
Mrs. Jarrell was a member of Woodside United Methodist Church in Silver Spring and Columbia Country Club in Chevy Chase.
She had been a member of Zonta International.
In later years, she was known for making poundcakes to give to family members, friends and stranger alike. The cakes were
one of the ways Mrs. Jarrell used to help anyone with a problem and those she liked a lot, a daughter said.
She probably made hundreds of them every year, until about four years ago,said a daughter, Mary J. Smith of Denton, Tex. After
she retired, it filled her time.
n 2002, Mrs. Jarrell was named Silver Spring Senior Citizen of the Year by the Greater Silver Spring Chamber of Commerce for
her many acts of kindness.
Survivors, in addition to her daughter, include three children, Thomas E. Jarrell II of Laurel, Margaret Madert of Silver Spring and
Anna K. Jarrell of Upper Marlboro; 10 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.