Violet Henrietta Stanley

VIOLET HENRIETTA STANLEY was born on February 13, 1917, the 6th child of Algernon M.A. Jackson and Florence Davage Jackson, in Baltimore, Maryland. Violet (Polly to her friends and relatives) was educated in Baltimore City Public Schools, graduating from Paul Laurence Dunbar Senior High School. She also attended Baltimore City Community College and Coppin State Teachers College. As a child she attended Unity Christian Church and Bethel A.M.E. Church. As an adult, she was confirmed at St. Philip's Lutheran Church, where she was a long time member until her death. While at St. Philip's she participated in many of the church's activities: serving as a Sunday School Teacher, a Vacation Bible School Teacher, a member of the Ladies Aide Society, and in many other church positions. She was married to George 1. Stanley, Jr. a marriage that lasted for 61 years until her husband's death in 1996. This marriage produced seven children. While raising her family she also managed to acquire additional educational credits and later served as a teacher in Baltimore City Public Schools, and schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. She was a long time teacher, and an Assistant Principal at St. Anne's Parochial School. In later years she would frequently run into her students, who invariably remembered her. As recently as 2013, while a resident at Courtland Gardens, the entertainment for the day was an "Oldies" singing group. Some of the members had been her students more than 40 years prior; needless to say, they all recognized her and sang specifically to "Mrs. Stanley". She was an avid sewer, making many of her own clothes on one of her proudest possessions: an old Singer Sewing machine that she had converted to electric power. She was a wonderful grandmother, always available with lessons, and/or treats for her legions of grandchildren. An immaculate housekeeper, she was immensely proud of the house she and husband George purchased on Darley Avenue in the early 1960s. She was preceded in death by her husband, George 1. Stanley, [r., and daughter Leona Stanley Jefferson. She leaves to mourn their loss: seven children, three daughters Florence V. Boone, Rosetta V. Cephas, Georgine B. Patterson, and four sons George 1. Stanley III (Hazel), John M. Stanley (Merle), Charles S. Stanley (Sandra), and James E. Stanley (Ernestine); a sister, Sarah Hudgins; a sister-in-law, Myrtle Stanley; twenty-eight grandchildren, sixty-seven great-grandchildren, forty-two great-great-grandchildren, three great-great- great-grandchildren, a cousin, and many nieces and nephews.

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Violet Henrietta Stanley

February 13, 1917 - December 23, 2014