Mary Frances Bailey 'Pumpkin' as everyone called her, was born to the late Elmore Lewis Bailey and Doris Dean Bailey. Pumpkin entered this world on September 12, 1959 in Baltimore, Maryland and departed this life suddenly and tragically on October 20, 2015 after being struck by a motor vehicle. We have faith that she is okay and she's been fitted for her halo, given her wings, hopped on the stairway to heaven, and patiently waiting at those pearly gates to enter into paradise.

Mary received her education in the Baltimore City Public School System. After high school, Pumpkin went out and gained multiple skills in many different things. Just to name a few, she worked in carpentry, barbering, sewing, upholstery, bricklaying, and last but not least, janitorial and cleaning work. Pumpkin would have you in the cleaning starting line up at 2, washing baseboards, and sweeping floors. Cleaning was her thing! This lady would clean her house, your house, and the neighbor's house spotless. Lord don't let her have to clean you! She would put the water as hot as you could stand it, bring her scrub brush, your washcloth, and the soap and get to work. If you were a girl, she had to wash, we felt sorry for you and your girly parts, she would scrub and dig and scrub and dig, you would be on your tiptoes for what seemed like forever. But you had no choice but to except it.

Pumpkin was very well known and respected. She was a sweet and giving woman, just don't play with her family or her money.

Pumpkin had a joy for nice things. She loved jewelry, clothes, and fast cars. She enjoyed reggae music, coffee, Pepsi, lemon pies, and peanut chews. Her favorite pastime was watching action, thriller, and horror movies. And boy, did this lady have an eye for men with "dreads" as she called them, though she probably 'never had one a day in her life. She loved them so much, she convinced Mr. Reggie to grow hair so he could get dreads and we are pretty sure almost everyone in here has seen Mr. Reggie. She also had a thing for red nail polish which everyone else disagreed on. Almost all of her kids would get on her about it. "Ma why do you keep wearing that polish" while she would be sitting in her bed with her big toe in the air twilling those chipped red polished toes laughing her tail off.

What was dearest to Pumpkin, was time spent with the ones she loved the most, "her family." All the time, she would say "I love yall,1 have a beautiful family." "God blessed me." We would sit, eat, talk, joke, and listen to her stories, and laugh so hard sometimes that we would cry maybe even wet ourselves a little. That was love.

She was preceded in death by her parents Doris Dean Bailey and Elmore Bailey, her uncles, Charles and James; and her aunt, Bey. Viewing Joseph H. Brown Jr. Funeral Home Monday, October 26, 2015 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM Email Details 2140 N. Fulton Ave
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