Marie H. Hussong, 94, a former Bethesda resident and retired church organist and choir director, died May 26 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville.
She had pneumonia, said her daughter Margaret Kriedt.
Marie H. Hussong, church organist and choir director
Mrs. Hussong was the organist and choir director at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Silver Spring in the 1960s and later, in the 1970s and ’80s, at the chapel at the Naval Security Station in Washington.
She had lived at the Village at Rockville retirement community since 2002.
Marie Hensgen was born Camden, N.J. She was a 1937 education graduate of what is now Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J., and taught school for several years in Camden in the late 1930s.
She settled in the Washington area in 1961 and received a music ministry certificate from American University in the 1970s.
She was a member of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethesda, where she belonged to the women’s auxiliary. She was a volunteer pianist at Washington area hospitals in the 1980s and ’90s.
Her husband of 69 years, retired Navy Capt. William J. Hussong Jr., died in 2009.
Survivors include four children, Katherine Harmon of Crownsville, Margaret Kriedt of Gretna, La., William J. Hussong III of Owings and David Hussong of Kensington; 10 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
— Emily Langer
