Alice M. Mummert, general store owner

Alice M. Mummert, who owned and operated a Baltimore County general store with her husband for nearly four decades, died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease Friday at Golden Crest Assisted Living in Hampstead. She was 101. The daughter of farmers Jeremiah and Lydia Blizzard, Alice Mae Blizzard was the 13th of 17 children. She was born at her family’s farm in Carrollton in Frederick County.

After her father’s death, the family moved to a home on Green Street in Westminster. Mrs. Mummert left school in the seventh grade to help support her family, and took a job at the Westminster Coat Factory.

Mrs. Mummert met her future husband, Oswald “Ozzie” Mummert, in a dance hall on Liberty Street in Westminster — the building now houses O’Lordan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant. The couple married in 1937.

They owned and operated the Woodensburg General Store on Hanover Pike from 1937 until 1976, when she retired. The couple also owned an apartment building next to the store.

She and her husband enjoyed camping and made several crosscountry trips in their motor home. Mr. Mummert died in 2002.

“Her last trip was to Hawaii in 2004 when she took her first airplane ride,” said a daughter, Viveca Michaels of Manchester.

She also was an avid flower and vegetable gardener, and enjoyed cooking, baking and knitting.

The Woodensburg resident had been an active member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Women at Trinity Lutheran Church in Reisterstown.

Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday, at the Eckhardt Funeral Chapel, 11605 Reisterstown Road, Owings Mills.

In addition to her daughter, Mrs. Mummert is survived by another daughter, Nancy McKenzie of Sykesville; four grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. Another daughter, Patsy Bloom, died in 2012.