Frances "Frannie" R. Wooten of Stevensville, MD died on July 27, 2016 at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She was 65. Born in Sandy Springs, MD on March 4, 1951, she was the daughter of Francis Hyde and the late Marjorie McLane Hype. She graduated from Annapolis High School in the class of 1969 and, on December 20, 1969, she married Charles M. Wooten of Annapolis, MD. During her career, Frannie worked with the Anne Arundel County Board of Education, where she started as a file clerk and rose through the ranks. She later moved to the Anne Arundel County Government and worked as an Office Automation Specialist, a career from which she retired in 2002. Frannie is survived by her loving husband, Charles Wooten; her father, Francis "Frank" Hyde of Annapolis, MD; a sister, Marjorie Thurlow of New Smyrna Beach, FL; and her brothers, Frank McLane Hyde of Edgewater, MD and James Anthony Hyde of Annapolis, MD. A funeral service will be held at 11 am on Tuesday, August 2 at the Fellows, Helfenbein & Newnam Funeral Home, P.A. in Chester, MD, where friends and family may visit on Monday from 2-4 and 6-8 pm. Burial will follow the service at Hillcrest Cemetery, Annapolis, MD.

Published in The Capital Gazette from July 28 to July 30, 2016