Naomi Marjorie Close Petrash

Naomi Marjorie Close Petrash left this world on November 16, 2017, at Riderwood Village in Silver Spring, MD, after having suffered a stroke on September 25, 2017. She was born July 14, 1925, in Ashtabula, Ohio, to John Winfield Close and Fannie Muhonen Close. She grew up in Ashtabula and Cleveland, Ohio, graduating from John Adams High School in Cleveland.

She was trained as a Registered Nurse at City Hospital (now Metro General) in Cleveland. On June 14, 1947, she married Robert Anthony Petrash in Cleveland. She lived in Cleveland, Detroit, and New York, before moving to the Washington area in 1966. She worked as a nurse in Cleveland, New York, and Washington, and earned a Bachelors degree from the University of Maryland. She and her husband moved to Swan Point, MD in 1986 and in the decades that followed, enjoyed the happiest and most rewarding chapters of their lives surrounded by wonderful friends. She was active with garden clubs in Washington and in Charles County and the Charles County Historical Society.

She was predeceased by her sister, Mary Jane Close Seager and her husband Robert Anthony Petrash. She moved to Riderwood Village in Silver Spring in 2015 after the death of her husband in 2014. She is survived by her son, Jeffrey Petrash, of Bethesda, MD; her grandson, Michael Petrash and his wife Rebecca Goodyear, of Denver, Colorado; eight nieces and nephews.

Remembrances may be made to Christ Church Wayside in Newburg, MD.