Update on the Purvis Family

Please continue to remember the Purvis family in your prayers. They lost two teenage children in a tragic auto accident last week.



PLEASE NOTE THAT FR. DAN WILL BE OFFERING THE 8:00 AM MASS ON THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15, 2007 FOR ALYSON AND RYAN PURVIS.



The following is the death notice from the Washington Post:




PURVIS ALYSON MICHELLE PURVIS "Aly" (17) RYAN JESSE PURVIS "Purple" (14) On Monday, November 5, 2007 and Friday, November 9, 2007 of Chesapeake Beach, MD. Beloved children of Robert and Susan Purvis; loving sister and brother of Emma Margaret; grandchildren of Lorna J. and the late George Nicholas Purvis, Jr. and Gail Jones and Joseph Jones, Jr. Family will receive friends at the LEE FUNERAL HOME, CALVERT, P.A., 8125 Southern Maryland Blvd. (Rte 4 & Fowler Rd.) Owings, MD on Wednesday from 2 to 4 pm and 6 to 9 p.m. Service will be held at Chesapeake Church, 6201 Solomons Island Rd., Huntingtown, MD on Thursday, November 15 at 11 a.m. Interment Chesapeake Highlands Memorial Gardens, Port Republic, MD. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the “Stommel Enterprises, Inc. Memorial Account for the Purvis Family”, 10130 Southern Maryland Blvd., Dunkirk, Maryland 20754.

Published in The Washington Post on 11/12/2007.


Friends may want to go online to the Washington Post and sign the guestbook.


Also received in a related e-mail:

Donations are being accepted via a Memorial account that has been set up with SunTrust Bank by Exit 1 Stop Reality. The family faces enormous expenses due to this tragedy. No donation is too small and will be greatly appreciated. Please pass this along to whomever you think might
be interested. Please make checks payable to: 'Stommel Enterprises Inc, Memorial Account for the Purvis Family', Lee Funeral Home or the Purvis Family directly.

Donations can be mailed to:

Exit 1 Stop Realty
10130 Southern Maryland Blvd
Dunkirk, MD 20754


Receive their souls , O holy ones; present them now to God, Most High. Lord graciously hear us!

Postd by Sue Ballmann