| Annie Mary Hughes Webb |
2010
Annie Mary Webb, 86, who worked as a secretary for the Southern Railway in the 1940s
before becoming a full-time homemaker, died Jan. 31 of multiple infections at Shady Grove
Adventist
Annie Mary Hughes was born in Waynesboro, Pa., and grew up in the District, where her
parents managed an apartment complex on Connecticut Avenue near the National Zoo. She
graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1941 and the next year from Temple
Secretarial School. She attended George Washington University until 1944.
Mrs. Webb and her husband of 63 years, John Benton Webb, raised four daughters in
Bethesda. They moved to Queenstown on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1978 and returned
to the Washington area in 2000.
Mrs. Webb was a three-times-a-week tennis player and a longtime member of All Saints
Episcopal Church in Chevy Chase. On the Eastern Shore, she attended Christ Episcopal
Church in Stevensville and was a member of the Academy of Arts in Easton, Md., and the
Queen Anne's Garden Club.
In addition to her husband, of Gaithersburg, survivors include three daughters, Virginia Styer
of Olney, Polly Rogers of Harrisonburg and Lucy Neuenschwander of Kenosha, Wis.; seven
grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Her daughter, Nancy Webb Smith, died in 1969.
-- Emma Brown
Annie Mary Webb, 86, who worked as a secretary for the Southern Railway in the 1940s
before becoming a full-time homemaker, died Jan. 31 of multiple infections at Shady Grove
Adventist
Annie Mary Hughes was born in Waynesboro, Pa., and grew up in the District, where her
parents managed an apartment complex on Connecticut Avenue near the National Zoo. She
graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1941 and the next year from Temple
Secretarial School. She attended George Washington University until 1944.
Mrs. Webb and her husband of 63 years, John Benton Webb, raised four daughters in
Bethesda. They moved to Queenstown on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1978 and returned
to the Washington area in 2000.
Mrs. Webb was a three-times-a-week tennis player and a longtime member of All Saints
Episcopal Church in Chevy Chase. On the Eastern Shore, she attended Christ Episcopal
Church in Stevensville and was a member of the Academy of Arts in Easton, Md., and the
Queen Anne's Garden Club.
In addition to her husband, of Gaithersburg, survivors include three daughters, Virginia Styer
of Olney, Polly Rogers of Harrisonburg and Lucy Neuenschwander of Kenosha, Wis.; seven
grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Her daughter, Nancy Webb Smith, died in 1969.
-- Emma Brown