Ann P. deMuth, Realtor

Ann P. deMuth, whose Roland Park real estate career spanned more than 40 years, died June 15 of heart failure at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. She was 86.

The daughter of Murray Ringgold Perkins and Eleanor Crane Perkins, Ann Lawrason Perkins was born in Baltimore and raised in Bolton Hill and later on Whitfield Road in Guilford.

She was a 1948 graduate of the Bryn Mawr School and earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Bryn Mawr College, from which she graduated magna cum laude in 1952.

After college, she worked in a laboratory at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where she conducted research on rats before her 1955 marriage to Howard E. “Tony” deMuth.

Mrs. deMuth and her husband, a lawyer, settled into a home on Roland Avenue and then moved to Somerset Road in Roland Park, where they raised their five children.

In the 1960s, she established deMuth Associates in Roland Park, which specialized in residential real estate.

She retired from the business in 2007.

She enjoyed gardening, and her daffodils and flower arrangements won many awards, family members said.

Mrs. deMuth enjoyed ice skating and playing tennis at the Elkridge Club, where she was a member. She was also a former member of the Mount Vernon Club and the Baltimore Country Club.

A resident of Blakehurst since 2007, Mrs. deMuth was a world traveler and looked forward each summer to a family vacation at Bethany Beach, Del. Her husband died last year. She was a communicant of Memorial Episcopal Church, 1407 Bolton St., where a memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. July 6. She left her body to the Maryland Anatomy Board.

Mrs. deMuth is survived by four sons, Andy deMuth of Roland Park, David deMuth of Ruxton, and Robert deMuth and Murray deMuth, both of Homeland; a daughter, Dede Acer of Pittsburgh; and 11 grandchildren.