Mary Stuart Hornsby Andrews, 95, passed away Monday, March 19, 2018. Mary Stuart was born in Newport News, grew up in Seaford and had been a longtime resident of Yorktown.
After graduating from Morrison High School at 16, she completed a two-year teaching course at Madison College (now James Madison University), but decided teaching was not for her after her professors warned her that she was too gentle (and not strict enough) with the children.
She worked at the ration board during World War II and at the U.S. Post Office after the war ended. She met her future husband over bridge at the USO and left the U.S. Post Office shortly before her daughter was born. She was an enthusiastic reader, an amateur Virginia historian, an expert seamstress and knitter and devoted to her family and her many friends. In 2008, she relocated to Reston, Va., to be closer to her children and grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Jay Donald “Andy” Andrews, a marine biologist at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science; and parents, William Henry Hornsby Jr. and Marjorie Frances Langslow Hornsby.
She is survived by her daughter, Donna Andrews; son, Stuart Andrews; and grandsons, Aidan and Liam.
The family will receive friends from 5 to 6 p.m., Sunday, March 25, at Amory Funeral Home. A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m., Monday, March 26, in Peninsula Memorial Park.
