AUBURN — Elaine Shirley Penley Ordway, 77, has passed on to our Lords embrace after a long illness at Clover Manor on Tuesday, Sept. 14.

Elaine was born Sept. 10, 1933, in Auburn, to Arthur I. Penley of Turner and Annie M. Goding Penley Verrill of Auburn. She graduated from Edward Little High School in 1951, and worked at the House of Old Moleneaux in Boston after graduation. Elaine married in Aug. 1952 to Eugene C. Ordway – USN, Laredo, Texas, and had two sons, Lawrence and Scott. They traveled around the country during Eugene’s commission in the Navy.

Elaine settled, resided, and raised her sons in Glen Burnie, Md., where she worked for the state of Maryland, Department of Agriculture for 20 years. She retired after 20 years in 1994, and returned to Turner to live out her retirement years and be close to her family.

Elaine was a member of the Auburn/Turner Royal Red Hatters and an active participant of the Turner Village Church, where she enjoyed working in the church nursery. She served as treasurer of the Penley Comer Church Foundation for many years and assisted in the planning of the annual July service. Elaine enjoyed traveling to the Amish Country with her friends each spring. She was a collector of dolls, enjoyed reading, and was masterful at dry flower arranging.

Elaine is survived by her brother, Maurice Penley and his wife, Lorraine, Auburn; her sister, Joy Gaskas and her husband, Bob, of Winsted, Conn.; her two sons, Lawrence E. Ordway and his wife, Denise, of Manchester, Md., and Scott E. Ordway and his wife, Melissa, of Merrimack, N.H.; her two grandchildren, Jennie Ordway McShane, of Hanover, Pa., and Eric Ordway, of Hampstead, Md.; four great-grandchildren; her nieces, Maureen Penley Poisson, of Jay, and Marcia Penley Bray, of Amston, Conn.; and her nephew, Jay Penley of Hartford.

Elaine was our beloved mother, sister, aunt, and friend and she will be missed by all who have been touched by her.

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