Jeanne Marguerite Dorsey (nee Thomas) died July 6, 2022 at age 104. Born May 5, 1918, she was the eldest child of James Bosley Thomas, from an old Maryland family and a noted chemist who worked for the old Davison Chemical Company in Baltimore and mother, Marguerite Wilson Maas, a concert pianist, a graduate of Peabody Conservatory, the Stern Conservatory in Berlin and studied at a conservatory in Rome. Her grandfather was Louis P. Maas, president of the old Armiger jewelry store of Charles Street.

Jeanne grew up on Stony Run Lane in Roland Park, Baltimore, with three sisters and a brother close in age, attending Calvert School, Roland Park Middle School, and Eastern High School. Jeanne was a 1939 graduate of Goucher College where she majored in music and mathematics. Among her effects are extensive college writings about major composers and their works. She led a deeply spiritual life. Her family religion was Methodism but at nineteen she converted to Roman Catholicism because of her interest in mysticism and the lives of the Saints.  After raising her six children she had the time to further contemplate spirituality and later became a member of the Divine Life Church of Absolute Oneness in Baltimore where she was their musicologist for many years. Jeanne wrote extensive notes of her studies and meditations on God, spirituality, and the hereafter, filling a dozen notebooks.

Jeanne met her husband, Thomas Lee Dorsey (Sr.) at Bendix Radio on Joppa Road during World War II in an electronics class and where he was the chief final testing technician for the radio direction finder used in bombers and where Jeanne was an instructor to the employees who were building the equipment. They married in 1944. Her husband owned Park Radio in downtown Baltimore, a traditional stereo store later passed on to two sons who continue to operate under the name Soundscape on Cold Spring Lane. Her husband died in 2001.

Jeanne spent most of her adult life from February, 1949 raising her six children on Lyman Avenue in Govans where after her husband died in 2001 she chose to live alone and independently in her familial home until 2018 when she moved to her daughter's house, living there until the last few months of her life. Jeanne is survived by her children, Thomas, John, Charles, Edward, Louise, and Richard, all of Baltimore or Towson; five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and nieces and nephews.

No services are planned at this time. Memories and condolences may be sent to john.dorsey@verizon.net.