Mary M. Mattingly estate documents

Mary Monica Mattingly was born in Charles County, Maryland, on March 3, 1874, to parents Mary Maddox and Joseph H. Mattingly of Pomfret, Maryland. In 1904, Mary Mattingly moved to Washington, D.C., where she resided until the end of her life. Her career included secretarial work at the Treasury Department. She also devoted much of her life to volunteer work for the Catholic Church. Mattingly was the first secretary at the Washington Retreat House and chairman of the first national executive board of the National Sodality movement. She was president of the Sodality Union from 1922 to 1947 and received a paternal blessing from Pope Pius XII at her retirement.

Further papal honors were awarded to Mattingly in 1959 when she received a Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal from Archbishop O’Boyle of Washington for her work with schools and churches in Southern Maryland. She was recognized with honors from Pope John XXIII for her service to the churches in the Archdiocese of Washington.

Mary Mattingly died at the Carroll Manor Home for the Aged, in Washington, D.C., in 1960.