2008
Helen Snyder Wesley, 81, who retired in 1997 as an accounting associate at the University of Maryland, died April 22 at the
Washington Home hospice. She had cancer.
Mrs. Wesley joined the university staff in 1974 as a secretary.
She was trained in home economics. Early in her career, she worked as a hospital dietitian and as a traveling cooking
demonstrator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
She was born in Durango, Colo., and moved with her family to Hyattsville in 1941. She graduated in 1944 from McKinley
Technical High School and received a degree in home economics from the University of Maryland in 1948.
Mrs. Wesley was chief judge of the Prince George's County Board of Elections from 1972 to 1974.
She did volunteer work for the Literacy Council of Prince George's County and the food bank of Trinity Moravian Church in New
Carrollton.
She lived in College Park and participated in the College Park Needle Arts Society.
Her husband, Joseph Wesley Jr., whom she married in 1959, died in 1995.
Survivors include two children, Laura Ford of Baltimore and Brian Wesley of College Park; two sisters; and two grandchildren.
-- Adam Bernstein