2009
Janet Lee Ziegler Dudley, 84, a real estate agent and military spouse, died Jan. 22 of acute respiratory failure at Anne
Arundel Medical Center. She lived in Annapolis.
Mrs. Dudley worked as a real estate agent for Shannon & Luchs from the late 1970s until the late 1980s, specializing in
historic Maryland properties.
She was born in Charleston, W.Va., the daughter of a Public Health Service officer. The family lived in Ireland,
Czechoslovakia, Minnesota and North Carolina. She graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School and Mount
Vernon Seminary and Junior College, both in Washington.
She married a Navy officer and traveled with him to postings around the country. Their lived in Olney for more than 30
years and moved to Annapolis 20 years ago.
Twice a cancer survivor, Mrs. Dudley volunteered for the women's board of Montgomery General Hospital and St.
John's Episcopal Church in Olney. She enjoyed entertaining, fishing, collecting antiques, arranging flowers and
gardening. She was a member of the Annapolis Yacht Club, the Army Navy Country Club and the Navy Wives
Investment Club.
Her husband of 63 years, Capt. John A. Dudley, died in 2007.
Survivors include three children, John A. Dudley Jr. of Corning, Calif., Mark Z. Dudley of Pittsford, N.Y., and Janet Lee
Dudley Blackwood of Annapolis; and five grandchildren.
-- Patricia Sullivan