Ethel M. Long

Ethel Margaret Long was born on July 30, 1926, to Thomas Gordon Long and Edith Margaret Long (Crossley) in Preeceville, Saskatchewan. She was the first of five children - her brothers and sisters are James Gordon Long (born 1928), Sheila Vivian Anderson (born 1929), Alan Leslie Long (born 1931), and Hazel Louise Calkins (born 1933). Her immediate family now resides in Canada, the United States, and Australia. As the family lived on a farm, Ethel left home at 16 years old to complete her schooling and start working nearby in Regina, Saskatchewan. She became a wonderful bookkeeper and secretary (also known as a stenographer in those days). She moved to Miami, Florida in 1959 and before long began working at the Miami office of the U.S. Department of Justice. Ethel became a U.S. citizen in 1964, as did her sister Hazel in Detroit, Michigan that same year. While in the Miami area, Ethel lived on Key Biscayne, an island at the very beginning of the Florida Keys and connected to Miami by a causeway. She made many friends at the Department of Justice and in her community. In the early 1980s, Ethel was ready for another adventure, and transferred within Justice to Washington, DC. There, she worked as a paralegal and office manager for a department called Asset Forfeitures and Seizures. She had many interesting stories to tell on her family visits, as this department confiscated assets for those convicted of tax evasion, delinquency, or fraud - which certainly included some unsavory characters. Ethel became very close to the Robert and Karen Sharp family during this Washington, DC period, and her family is very grateful for the family life Ethel enjoyed in the Sharp home for many years. However, due to declining health in 2018, the family re-located Ethel to be near her sister Hazel in Michigan. Above all, Ethel loved sports. In her earlier years she was an avid curler, and later was a die-hard Baltimore Orioles fan. She lived an adventurous, independent life in Saskatchewan, Miami, and Washington DC, and will be greatly missed by her surviving brother, two sisters, nine nieces and nephews, and her many close friends. The photo of Ethel was taken at an Annapolis bed and breakfast in 2014, when she was 88.

Ethel M. Long

July 30, 1926 - September 17, 2020