Margaret Agnes Pratt, age 92, passed away on April 28, 2012 at her home in Chesapeake Beach, MD. She was born April 28, 1920 in Baltimore, MD to Robert A. and Maggie (Wills) Dugan. Margaret was a 1938 graduate of St. Patrick’s High School in Washington, DC. She was married to Lawrence R. “Joe” Pratt, Sr. in Washington on February 22, 1942. She and her husband purchased a cottage in Chesapeake Beach as a summer retreat in 1965. Margaret was employed as a personnel manager with the department of Health and Human Services retiring in 1980. She has resided in Chesapeake Beach full time since 1982.
Margaret was a member of St. Anthony’s Catholic Church and volunteered at Help, Inc in Owings for over 25 years.
She was preceded in death by her husband Joe in 1976, a daughter, a grandson, a brother and four sisters.
Surviving are a son Lawrence R. Pratt, Jr. and his wife Mary Jean of Crownsville, MD and daughter Barbara Jean Adkins and her husband Wayne of Chester, MD, eleven grandchildren including her care giver Susan L. Adkins, eighteen great grandchildren and three great- great grandchildren.