Mildred Avery Kettler Twilley
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2006
Mildred Avery Kettler Twilley, 97, a retired social worker and school attendance officer who volunteered with several community
organizations, died Oct. 4 at her home in Bethesda. She had lung cancer.
Mrs. Twilley was born above the family jewelry store in Washington and graduated from Eastern High School. She received a bachelor's
degree in 1931 from the University of Maryland, where she was a member of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority.
From 1932 to 1933, she worked for the National Child Research Center in Washington and then pursued postgraduate studies at the New
York School of Social Work (now part of Columbia University). She worked in her field in Baltimore and Washington before marrying in
1942. An area resident for most of her life, she had lived in Kensington and Bethesda since 1952.
As a homemaker, Mrs. Twilley was involved in her children's schools and her church. After her husband, Howard J. Twilley, died in 1959,
Mrs. Twilley worked as an attendance officer with D.C. public schools. She was assigned to several elementary and junior high schools to
investigate truancy. She retired in 1974.
For more than 20 years, she was a volunteer for Meals on Wheels. She also volunteered at a Presbyterian retirement home in the District,
the Women's Club of Bethesda Thrift Shop, and Warner Memorial Presbyterian Church in Kensington, where she was a member for more
than 50 years. She also was a member of the Kensington Women's Club and the Chevy Chase Chapter of the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
Family members said Mrs. Twilley delighted her grandchildren with descriptions of early 20th-century Washington, including stories about
having the first phone on the block and about swimming near the Mall.
Survivors include her two children, Elizabeth Ann Nolan of Tucson and William Twilley of Kensington; and two granddaughters.