On November 30, 2022 EVELYN MADDOX APICHELLA; beloved wife of the late John Louis Apichella; loving mother of Michael Anthony Apichella; caring foster-mother to Sandy and Tanya Toms; dear sister of Dorothy Mathieson, Marilyn Workman and the late, Tom, Dick, Harry and Donald Bennett and Margaret Shipley. Also survived by a host of loving nieces and nephews.
Born in Westminster Maryland and raised Methodist, Evelyn and her family attended Wesley Freedom United Methodist Church in Sykesville. Following graduation from Maryland Institute Collage of Art in 1955 and completing post-graduate courses at Towson University and Morgan State. Her passion as an art teacher for Baltimore County and Baltimore City Schools started in the 1950’s until the 1990’s. Her schools included Ruxton Country School and Towson Catholic High School. She also worked as a substitute teacher mainly at Carroll Manor Elementary School from the 1990’s until 2017. Evelyn loved to paint and her shared her paintings with family and friends.
Evelyn was a hostess for the Symphony Show Houses for many years, which followed her passion for decorating. She had a great eye for discovering important/historic artifacts that would also work as beautiful decorative items in her house. Being the avid collector, her prowess allowed her to collect antiques spanning the 1700’s to the mid 20th century. Evelyn loved the holidays and showed this love with endless decorations. Her favorite holidays to decorate included Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. She was especially known for her personally created Christmas cards, which family and friends loved to receive each year.
Her other interests included gardening, which was expressed at her home in Phoenix and her love of cats, including her current cats, Mr. Misty and Cinnamon.
Following her marriage Evelyn became a faithful Catholic, she belonged to St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Hydes, but also attended St. Joseph Parish in Cockeysville.
The family will receive friends in the LEMMON FUNERAL HOME OF DULANEY VALLEY INC., 10 W. Padonia Road (at York Road) Timonium, MD 21093 on Tuesday, 6-8pm and on Wednesday, December 7, 8-9am with a Funeral Mass being celebrated in St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, 13305 Long Green Pike, Hydes, MD 21082 at 10am.
Interment the adjoining cemetery.
Expressions of sympathy may be directed in Evelyn’s memory to the Fuel Fund of Maryland, 57 W. Timonium Road, suite 208, Timonium, MD 21093 or visit www.fuelfundmaryland.org, and/or Long Green Volunteer Fire Company, P.O. Box 4009, Glen Arm, MD 21057 or visit www.lgvfc.com.
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