1958
Wendy
2015
Wendy Ailor
November 4, 1958 — April 3, 2015
Wendy Anne Ball Ailor, 56, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, died on April 3, 2015, Good Friday, surrounded by her family. She was born in Bethesda, Maryland to Mary Jane Wilsman Henderson and the late Col. William R. Ball, USMC on November 4, 1958.
Wendy attended Yorktown High School in Arlington, Virginia and received a BA in Political Science from The College of William and Mary. Between high school and college, she studied German at the Goethe Institute in Berlin, Germany, where the family had lived. She married John Carlton Ailor on February 14, 1982 in the Wren Chapel in Williamsburg, Virginia. Wendy and John had three children, Christina born in Arlington, Virginia, Jake born in Tampa, Florida and Laura Grace born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
Wendy was an Archivist and Records Manger. She began her career with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and moved on to The National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., then the Resolution Trust Corporation in Tampa, Florida and Trooper, Pennsylvania. She spent eighteen years with Wyeth and Pfizer Pharmaceutical in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Wendy was Director, Clinical Inspection Readiness and Quality, Teva Pharmaceuticals in Frazier, Pennsylvania at the time of her death.
Though a successful professional, Wendy's wholehearted devotion was to God and family. She was a highly creative cook known by her family and friends for being able to prepare a feast in minutes with whatever was on hand. She loved to walk. Wendy and John walked the Valley Forge loop multiple times a week and logged hundreds of miles on the streets of Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Rome, London and Paris. Warm weather weekends and Holidays were spent sailing on the Chesapeake Bay in the family sailboat Circuitous and biking the rails-to-trails around Philadelphia.
Wendy was a member of Saint Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church in Devon, Pennsylvania where she was an Assisting Minister, Team Leader of the Stewardship Committee, 4th - 6th Grade Girls Small Group Leader and assisted teaching 5th Grade Sunday School.
Wendy is survived by her husband of 33 years, John Carlton Ailor, her daughter Christina Nichole Ailor, 27, her son John Russel "Jake" Ailor, 22, her daughter Laura Grace Ailor, 20, her mother Mary Jane Wilsman Henderson of Annapolis, Maryland, sisters, Alexandra Susan O'Brien of Charlottesville, Virginia, and Mary Kathleen Johnson of Reston, Virginia and brother William Russel Ball, Jr. of Arlington, Virginia.
A Celebration of Life will be held at Saint Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church, 283 N. Valley Forge Road, Devon, Pennsylvania on Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 3:00 PM. A reception will follow. All are welcome. The family is requesting donations be made to the Saint Luke Endowment Fund to honor Wendy.
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Wendy attended Yorktown High School in Arlington, Virginia and received a BA in Political Science from The College of William and Mary. Between high school and college, she studied German at the Goethe Institute in Berlin, Germany, where the family had lived. She married John Carlton Ailor on February 14, 1982 in the Wren Chapel in Williamsburg, Virginia. Wendy and John had three children, Christina born in Arlington, Virginia, Jake born in Tampa, Florida and Laura Grace born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
Wendy was an Archivist and Records Manger. She began her career with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and moved on to The National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., then the Resolution Trust Corporation in Tampa, Florida and Trooper, Pennsylvania. She spent eighteen years with Wyeth and Pfizer Pharmaceutical in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Wendy was Director, Clinical Inspection Readiness and Quality, Teva Pharmaceuticals in Frazier, Pennsylvania at the time of her death.
Though a successful professional, Wendy's wholehearted devotion was to God and family. She was a highly creative cook known by her family and friends for being able to prepare a feast in minutes with whatever was on hand. She loved to walk. Wendy and John walked the Valley Forge loop multiple times a week and logged hundreds of miles on the streets of Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Rome, London and Paris. Warm weather weekends and Holidays were spent sailing on the Chesapeake Bay in the family sailboat Circuitous and biking the rails-to-trails around Philadelphia.
Wendy was a member of Saint Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church in Devon, Pennsylvania where she was an Assisting Minister, Team Leader of the Stewardship Committee, 4th - 6th Grade Girls Small Group Leader and assisted teaching 5th Grade Sunday School.
Wendy is survived by her husband of 33 years, John Carlton Ailor, her daughter Christina Nichole Ailor, 27, her son John Russel "Jake" Ailor, 22, her daughter Laura Grace Ailor, 20, her mother Mary Jane Wilsman Henderson of Annapolis, Maryland, sisters, Alexandra Susan O'Brien of Charlottesville, Virginia, and Mary Kathleen Johnson of Reston, Virginia and brother William Russel Ball, Jr. of Arlington, Virginia.
A Celebration of Life will be held at Saint Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church, 283 N. Valley Forge Road, Devon, Pennsylvania on Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 3:00 PM. A reception will follow. All are welcome. The family is requesting donations be made to the Saint Luke Endowment Fund to honor Wendy.
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