- Jane Garrison Trolinger, beloved wife of the late William P. Trolinger, passed away February 14, 2014 at home in Ellicott City, MD. Born in Queens, New York in 1924, she grew up primarily in Florida in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area. She graduated from Florida State College for Women (now Florida State University) in 1944 with a BS in Zoology. After serving as a cartographer for the US Government Map Service from 1944 - 1945, she entered the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing, receiving her R.N. and B.S.N. in 1948. In 1948 she married William, and made the Baltimore area her home.
In 1965 she returned to nursing. In 1969 she was one of four nurses chosen to staff Johns Hopkins Hospital's Columbia Medical Plan, one of the first HMOs in the country. A resident of Ellicott City from 1955 until her death, she was active in Ellicott City's revitalization, serving as Project Manager for the Ellicott City Restoration Fund, 1985 ? 1995. She was a founding member of the Howard County AAUW, an active member of the Huguenot Society and also the Colonial Dames, serving as a docent for many years at Mount Clare in Baltimore.
Jane is survived by a brother Charles P. Garrison of Tampa, Florida; six children, Martha T. Wallis of Herndon, VA, Charlotte P. of Boulder, MT, William P., III, John M. and Robert S. of Ellicott City, and Benjamin H. Trolinger of Columbia; six grandchildren, Rachel and Mikala Wallis of VA, Morgwn Trolinger of Lancaster, England, Tim and Matthew Trolinger of Columbia, MD and Sarah Ryan and great-grandson K.J. Ryan of Murfreesboro, TN.
Services will be held at St. Johns Episcopal Church, 9120 Frederick Rd, Ellicott City, MD 21042, (410) 461-7793, on Thursday, 20 February 2014 at 10:30am.
Those who desire may direct memorial contributions to the AAUW Howard County Scholarship Fund, C/O Lorraine Tropf, 7833 Maplelawn Blvd., Fulton, MD 20759. (please write scholarship fund in the memo line)
Mary Jane Trolinger, nurse
She was one of original nurses who worked at Johns Hopkins' HMO
February 19, 2014|By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun
Mary Jane Trolinger, a retired registered nurse who was one of the original staffers of Johns Hopkins Hospital's Columbia Medical Plan, died Friday of pneumonia at her Ellicott City home. She was 89.
The daughter of a newspaper advertising salesman and a homemaker, the former Mary Jane Garrison - she never used her first name, family members said - was born in Queens, N.Y., and raised in St. Petersburg, Fla., and Tampa
After graduating in 1940 from Henry B. Plant High School in Tampa, she earned a bachelor's degree in zoology in 1944 from Florida State College for Women, now Florida State University.
Mrs. Trolinger worked in Washington for the U.S. Government Map Service in 1944-1945, and then entered the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, from which she received her bachelor's degree in nursing in 1948.
In 1948, she married William P. Trolinger Jr., a mechanical and electrical engineer, and the couple settled in Ellicott City in 1955. He died in 1993.
Mrs. Trolinger returned to nursing in 1965, and four years later, was one of four nurses - three women and a man - to staff Johns Hopkins Hospital's Columbia Medical Plan, one of the first HMOs in the nation. She retired in the early 1980s.
From 1985 to 1995, she was project manager for the Ellicott City Restoration Fund, which assisted in the city's revitalization efforts.
She was also a founding member of the Howard County chapter of the American Association of University Women. She was an active member of the Huguenot Society and Colonial Dames. She had been a docent at Mount Clare, the 1760 Southwest Baltimore home that had once been the residence of Charles Carroll, the Barrister.
Mrs. Trolinger was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church, 9120 Frederick Road, Ellicott City, where funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
She is survived by four sons, William P. Trolinger III, John M. Trolinger and Robert S. Trolinger, all of Ellicott City, and Benjamin H. Trolinger of Columbia; two daughters, Martha T. Wallis of Herndon, Va., and Charlotte P. Trolinger of Boulder, Mont.; a brother, Charles P. Garrison of Tampa; six grandchildren; and a great-grandson.
(Ref photo of Jane and William attached to her obituary)
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1924 - 2014 (89 years)
