Lucille Louise Bauersfeld

Lucille Louise Bauersfeld, beloved wife of George Calvin Bauersfeld (deceased 2022), mother to Kristin Louise Bauersfeld of Burke, Virginia and Amy Elizabeth Bauersfeld of Abingdon, Maryland passed away peacefully at the Senator Bob Hooper Hospice House on August 29, 2024.

Cille, as she was known to family and friends, was born in Elmhurst, Illinois in 1946 to Leverett Lyle Hinkel (deceased 1997) and Marguerite Barbara Simpson (deceased 2017), and along with her brothers Bruce Charles Hinkel (deceased 2012) and Robert Horton Hinkel spent her childhood in Battle Creek, Michigan before the family moved to Dundalk, Maryland when she was in middle school. She attended the University of Maryland, College Park where she graduated with a degree in elementary art education and taught in Baltimore County Public Schools before leaving to raise her family. Lucy was part of a close knit group of friends in college that included her future husband, George, whom she married in 1969. She handmade George’s wedding band in the art studios at College Park.

Lucy was a devoted mother to Kristin and Amy and grandmother to George Gabriel Smith, Sophie Louise Smith and Beatrice Rose Orsini. She and George traveled to countless soccer, basketball, volleyball, field hockey, and softball games where they proudly supported their children and grandchildren over the years. She also showed her love through baking and always saved the pie crusts so that they would still be warm when her children got off the schoolbus. A favorite memory of her daughters’ was waiting for the school bus to arrive and sharing shot glasses of CocaCola and butter topped saltines while watching the Price is Right.

Lucy enjoyed working outdoors and her yard was artfully designed and landscaped with carefully selected plants and sculptural elements. After George took up gardening in retirement they lovingly battled over where their next discovery would be planted.

Over the years, Lucy explored artmaking in a number of different mediums including painting, drawing, stained glass, scherenschnitte, braided rugs, sock monkeys, Christmas ornaments (GLITTER!), jewelry making and gourd birdhouses.

Yard sales and flea markets were favorite destinations for amassing collections of ephemera including first edition books (especially Agatha Christie), Fiestaware, Little People, antique Christmas ornaments, wooden boxes, glass beads, and cast iron animal figurines, particularly squirrels. Lucy also had a love of genealogy and worked for many years on multiple binders filled with handwritten family histories and photographs all lovingly labeled and organized.

Her family hopes that in heaven she will be reunited with George and will find a good mystery novel and a bowl of chocolates on her nightstand.

Visitation is Saturday, September 7 from 11 am - 12 pm followed by a service at McComas Funeral Home, 50 West Broadway, Bel Air, Maryland followed immediately by the graveside interment of her ashes at Harford Memorial Gardens, 3839 Aldino Road, Edgewood, Maryland.

The family would like to thank the staff at Brightview Senior Living, Bel Air and the Senator Bob Hooper Hospice House for their kindness and compassionate caregiving.