Sophia P. Wolfe

Sophia P. Wolfe of Odenton, MD passed away on Sunday, December 18, 2016 at Brightview Senior Living in Severna Park, MD, at the age of 91.  Sophia was born on February 14, 1925 in Elon College, NC to the late Thomas Edward Powell, Jr. and Maude (Sharpe) Powell.

As a young woman, she worked in her father’s company, Carolina Biological Supply Company while earning her degree at Duke University. Her art appeared in the catalog of Carolina Water Gardens, and later in the Carolina Biological Supply Company catalogs. She and her husband, Gene, were popular exhibitors for the Company in state, regional and national shows.

In 1951 Soph flew into Berlin with the Special Services to cheer and entertain the U.S. troops stationed there after the war. It was there that she met her husband Gene, and they remained stationed in Berlin and Stuttgart until returning home to the U.S. with their two young sons in 1962. Soph was an avid Tennis player and Bridge player. She attended the U.S. Open every year for decades until ill health prevented her going. Soph was often heard to say that “Tennis is not a matter of life or death, it is much more important than that.”

Sophia is survived by her two sons, Thomas Ross Wolfe and David Eugene Wolfe; five grandchildren, Jason Ross Wolfe, Brennan Thomas Wolfe, Jared Lytle, Alexis Sue Wehr and Madison Lucie Wehr; three great granddaughters, Lyla Elizabeth, Emerson Samantha and Ellory Jane Wolfe; five brothers, Thomas Edward Powell, III, M.D., James Bobbitt Powell, M.D., John Sharpe Powell, Esquire, William Council Powell and Samuel Council Powell, PhD and a sister, Elizabeth Council Powell, PhD.  She is also survived by Linda Wolfe, Tamara Wolfe and Susan Wolfe. Sophia was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Albert Eugene Wolfe.