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Dorothy Louise Ordwein, 94, died March 20 at the United Methodist Asbury Solomons Island retirement home from complications following a stroke. The Rev. Faith Fairchild Lewis officiated at a memorial service April 3 at Olivet UMC in Lusby.

Ordwein was a key person in establishing Retreat and Camping Ministries in the Baltimore-Washington Conference.

In the 1940s she started summer programming at the old Utterbeck farm in Knoxville and helped secure and develop the 426 acres for the conference to establish Camp Manidokan in 1949. For more than 40 years, she served on the conference Committee for Retreat and Camping Ministries.

In the early 1960s Ordwein became the first full-time conference director of youth work.

She graduated from the University of Maryland at College Park in Home Economics and Physical Education in 1935. She received a Master's in Secondary Education from Scarritt College in Nashville, Tenn., in 1940, and taught in the public schools of Calvert and Prince Georges counties and in Baltimore City.

In her retirement years she volunteered for many community and civic organizations, including the Calvert Marine Museum and the Calvert County Retired Teachers Association.

Survivors include a niece and a cousin. Memorial gifts may be made to Olivet UMC, 13575 Olivet Road, Lusby, MD 20657 or Retreat and Camping Ministries, P.O. Box 429, Churchton, MD 20733.

Nancy Weaver, 53, who served the Morgan Charge in Berkeley Springs, W. Va., died March 3 in Milton, Pa., after a long battle with cancer. Her funeral was held at the Montandon (Pa.) Baptist Church March 7.

Weaver had served the Mt. Olivet and Greenwood UMCs the past five years as a part-time D.S. hire. She also attended Wesley Theological Seminary.

Weaver was a trained medical technician and had worked in a variety of jobs with insurance companies and doctors in the Harrisburg, Pa., area before her call to ministry.

She was fond of animals and was devoted to her two cats and two dogs. She also enjoyed singing, crafts, cooking and baking.

Survivors include her mother, Ruth Weaver; a brother, James M. Weaver of Milton; three sisters: Sharen L. McCrea of Loxahatchee, Fla., Mary Beth Weaver-Snyder and Jennifer R. Weaver, both of Milton.

Condolences may be sent to Ruth Weaver, 1550 Ridge Road, Milton, PA 17847.