Sheila Colegrove Gallagher, 66, of Shady Side

»Information from the Hardesty Funeral Home website.

Sheila Colegrove Gallagher, 66, a resident of Shady Side, died Sunday, Aug. 2, after a brief illness.

Sheila was born April 24, 1949, in Oahu, Hawaii. She graduated from St. Mary’s High School, Marymount College and received a BS degree from the University of Maryland.

Sheila was the Program Director of Horticultural Therapy at Melwood, a non-profit which helps people with differing abilities work, live and play in the community. She was a registered Horticultural Therapist, a Certified Professional Horticulturalist and a Master Gardner in Anne Arundel Country. Sheila was a presenter at the International Conference on Horticulture Therapy in Taiwan and was the subject matter expert of the history of horticulture in the U.S. and Melwood’s influence on horticulture therapy.

Sheila will be remembered as a compassionate and caring person who believed humans all have within them a love and a caring heart for all living things, both plants and animals. Sheila was preceded in death by her father, Warren R. Colegrove.

She is survived by her Mother Joy B. Colegrove of Annapolis, her brothers Peter Colegrove of Annapolis, Paul Colegrove of Timomium and sister Betsy Spenser of Shrewsbury, Mass. and many nieces and nephews.

The family will receive visitors on Saturday, Aug. 22, from 3pm-5pm at the Hardesty Funeral Home, 12 Ridgely Ave. in Annapolis.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Melwood, 5606 Dower House Road, Upper Marlboro, Md 20772 or the Spiritist Society of North Beach, PO Box 578, North Beach, Maryland 20714.