More Than Savage
Thorntons, Fifty Years in Savage
This Savage couple has been living in and serving in the community since 1958.
If there is anyone who could be called "Mr. and Mrs. Savage, Maryland," it would be Dennis and Louise "Lovie" Thornton, who have lived in this town and served the community for more than 50 years. Louise's family goes back six generations in Savage. Her great-grandparents came up from Virginia in 1900 to work at the Savage Mill, and they lived in one of the old mill houses on Baltimore Street. Louise's mother, Ellen Lillard, married Sam Chaney from Laurel, and Sam built a little house in Laurel where Louise was born. Then the couple was able to buy a 25-acre farm here in Savage at the corner of Windemere and Jefferson. The farm included a house in an advanced state of disrepair, but Sam fixed it up. Louise remembers that as children, she…
Brian Hooks
1:30 pm on Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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