EDGEWATER, MD – The world dimmed a little on September 11, 2025, when Nancy Lee Catterton Parlett passed away peacefully in the early morning hours, surrounded by the friends she called family. She was 91.

Born at Annapolis Hospital on May 30, 1934, Nancy proudly described herself as a 10th-generation South County farm girl, raised on her parents’ tobacco farms in Harwood, Maryland. She was the beloved daughter of Herbert T. and Alverta W. Catterton, and sister of Herbert W. Catterton.

After graduating from Southern High School in 1952 and attending Fleet Business School shortly thereafter, she married the love of her life, Leonard “Buddy” H. Parlett. Buddy built their beloved Parvilla home, where they started their family and their story together.

Nancy was a young model in Washington,

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