Ann Louise Peace, a retired office manager, homemaker and volunteer, died of heart failure Aug. 28 at Pickersgill Retirement Community in Towson. She was 88.
Ann Louise Thomas was born in Baltimore and raised on Canterbury Road.
After graduating from Bryn Mawr School in 1938, she attended the old Hawkins Office Training School on North Charles Street, and went to work as a typist for the Baker-Whiteley Towing Co.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Mrs. Peace returned to work as an office manager for the Thomas and Thompson Co., the East Baltimore Street drugstore that had been founded by her family in 1872.
The former longtime Broadmoor Road resident retired when the business closed in 1975.
Mrs. Peace had been a volunteer driver for many years with Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland and taught adult literacy classes at the Govans and Waverly branches of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
"One such adult was determined to learn how to better read dress patterns in order to earn money for her family as a seamstress," said a son, Charles F. Peace IV of Baltimore. "Mom made a real difference in this person's life."
She was a founder of the Woodland Garden Club and a member for 50 years of the Woman's Club of Roland Park. She was also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Johns Hopkins Club.
When her sons attended St. Paul's School for Boys and Boys' Latin School, she was an active member of their mothers' clubs.
For years, Mrs. Peace was known for an annual Christmas Eve party that she gave in her Homeland residence.
Mrs. Peace was active in the altar guilds of the Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation and St. David's Episcopal Church.
Her husband of 58 years, Charles F. Peace III, a retired Maryland National Bank official, died in 2002.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. today at St. David's Episcopal Church, 4700 Roland Ave.
Also surviving are two other sons, Thomas Baker Peace of Lutherville and James H. Peace of Chestertown; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
