Martha Elaine Brown Siebert

Published in The Washington Post on Nov. 2, 2015

Martha E. Siebert  

Martha Elaine (Brown) Siebert, 93, passed away on Friday,
October 23, 2015.

Martha Brown was born in Franklin, WV to the late Bernard
L. and the late Elva May (Pitsenbarger) Brown.

She was a graduate from
Eastern High School (1940) in Washington, DC. She
married Robert F. Siebert, the love of her life, in 1943 and they remained married until
his death in 1990. She worked for the phone company after graduating and
subsequently moved to a career in interior design.

They settled in Fort Washington, Maryland and raised their four children. During her
career, she worked as a designer with a Northern Virginia firm providing a unique
decorating service for many well known families in the Washington Metro area. She was
active in the JFK Council Knights of Columbus and a long time parishioner of St. Mary's
Catholic Church in Piscataway, MD.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert F. Siebert (1990), daughter,
Bonnie F. Compton (2015), and grandsons Joshua Andrew (1975) and Michael J.
Sandy (2008).

Survivors include: her daughter, Mary A. (Siebert) Sandy and her husband Stephen R.
Sandy; her sons, Robert A. and his wife Mary F. Siebert; Christopher J. and his wife
Lisa Siebert; 10 grandchildren; 16 great grandchildren; and, four great, great
grandchildren.

Services will be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2015, 11 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic
Church on Piscataway Road, Clinton MD.

Interment will follow at the Church cemetery.


Religious Service Information
St Mary's Churach
13401 Piscataway Rd
Clinton, MD 20735