| Delores J. Green Hartley |
2009
Delores J. Hartley, 87, who formerly owned a Silver Spring restaurant with her husband and later had businesses in Ocean City, Md., died
Sept. 30 at Montgomery Hospice's Casey House in Rockville. She had metastatic lung cancer.
Mrs. Hartley was born Delores Jeanette Green in Bethesda, grew up in Washington and graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1940. She
was a supervisor at Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. in the 1940s.
Beginning in the 1950s, she and her second husband, Glenn Odell "Odie" Hartley, owned several businesses in Silver Spring, including the
Villa Rosa Restaurant. They moved to Ocean City in 1970 and opened several other businesses, including Sea Side Slides, which was one
of the first water-slide parks on the East Coast.
Mrs. Hartley retired in the early 1990s and lived in Maine for several years before settling in Silver Spring's Leisure World in 2001.
She enjoyed golf, word games and singing.
Her first marriage, to Blaine Wicklein, ended in divorce. Her second husband died in 1995 after 42 years of marriage.
Survivors include two children from her first marriage, Barbara Wicklein of Germantown and Michael Wicklein of Ocean City; a daughter
from her second marriage, Karen Landis of Cape Elizabeth, Maine; four sisters, Beverly Lumpkin of Silver Spring, Shirley Dolan of
Edgewater, Diane Dilly of Hambleton, W.Va., and Sandra DePrato of Lothian; a brother, George Green Jr. of Laurel; seven grandchildren;
and three great-grandchildren.
-- Matt Schudel
Delores J. Hartley, 87, who formerly owned a Silver Spring restaurant with her husband and later had businesses in Ocean City, Md., died
Sept. 30 at Montgomery Hospice's Casey House in Rockville. She had metastatic lung cancer.
Mrs. Hartley was born Delores Jeanette Green in Bethesda, grew up in Washington and graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1940. She
was a supervisor at Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. in the 1940s.
Beginning in the 1950s, she and her second husband, Glenn Odell "Odie" Hartley, owned several businesses in Silver Spring, including the
Villa Rosa Restaurant. They moved to Ocean City in 1970 and opened several other businesses, including Sea Side Slides, which was one
of the first water-slide parks on the East Coast.
Mrs. Hartley retired in the early 1990s and lived in Maine for several years before settling in Silver Spring's Leisure World in 2001.
She enjoyed golf, word games and singing.
Her first marriage, to Blaine Wicklein, ended in divorce. Her second husband died in 1995 after 42 years of marriage.
Survivors include two children from her first marriage, Barbara Wicklein of Germantown and Michael Wicklein of Ocean City; a daughter
from her second marriage, Karen Landis of Cape Elizabeth, Maine; four sisters, Beverly Lumpkin of Silver Spring, Shirley Dolan of
Edgewater, Diane Dilly of Hambleton, W.Va., and Sandra DePrato of Lothian; a brother, George Green Jr. of Laurel; seven grandchildren;
and three great-grandchildren.
-- Matt Schudel