Anne Allen Boyce Dandy

In the early morning hours of Wednesday, October 23, 2024, Anne Allen Boyce Dandy died peacefully in her sleep, at age 98, from an aortic aneurysm, with her son John at her bedside. She was a competitive tennis player, representing Elkridge Country Club, and also playing in Baltimore City open tournaments, and for many years coached the Bryn Mawr high school tennis team, including coaching her daughter, Nancy. She attended the Women’s Hospital nursing school, and planned to work for the horseback midwives in Appalachia, but in her last semester, was distracted by the young Dr. Walter Dandy, Jr. and married him. Together they raised a family of 4 children, Carol Dandy Beckley (Drew), Walter Edward Dandy III (Jenny), Nancy Dandy Patz (David), and John Allen Dandy (Tammy). She played tennis and golf into her 80s. In her last several decades she volunteered as a docent at the Baltimore Museum of Art. She and her husband were great bridge players, and she was actually scheduled to play on the day that she died. She was an avid naturalist, including birding and recently was following a pair of red shouldered hawks nesting down across Western Run. Before moving to Broadmead, she would annually lead some fellow naturalists on a trail from her Monkton home, through the forest identifying flowers, including a rare cardinal flower which bloomed on their pond. Her last 22 years she has lived joyfully at Broadmead, remaining active in the writing group, bridge, birding, and walking daily to the center for food and mail, up to her recent hospitalization.

She is survived by her four children named above, and 7 grandchildren Robyn Beckley, Drew Beckley, Sarah Patz, Michael Patz, Walter Dandy (IV), Ellicott Dandy, and Robert Dandy, and 8 great grandchildren Jackson Vining, Belle Vining, Colin Beckley, Cannon Beckley, Stephen Comunale, Cora Comunale, Hayden Patz and Arnall Patz. She was predeceased by her husband Walter Edward Dandy Jr., and by her grandson, David Beckley who died as an infant.

There will be a memorial service for Mrs. Dandy at the Broadmead auditorium in Cockeysville on Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 3pm.