Mary Miller Arnold

Mary Miller Arnold was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas in 1938 and graduated from Memphis State University. She began her professional life as a flight attendant before settling into a long career in federal-legislative service. After her family’s 1960 move from Memphis to the Washington area she spent twenty-one years as a Supervisor in the Office of the Doorkeeper of the United States Senate — the office historically responsible for managing access to the Senate floor and supporting the Senate’s parliamentary mechanics. ^[1] Source 1 AVSOPS.org — Mary and Ed Arnold memorial Website

In Alexandria she was a leader in the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria and was active in multiple women’s civic and service organizations. The Animal Welfare League — Alexandria’s local humane society and shelter, founded 1946 — counts the period of her leadership among its formative growth years.

She died in 2006 and is interred at 2823 King Street Place 2823 King Street Twenty-two-acre garden cemetery in Alexandria's Rosemont district, chartered 1856 by thirty Alexandrians on land sold from the estate of Hugh C. Smith. A representative entry in … alongside her husband Edwin L. Arnold Sr. Person Edwin L. Arnold Sr. b. 1929 · d. 2012 United States Marine Corps Lieutenant and Korean War combat veteran; spent thirty-eight-plus years at the U.S. Veterans Administration / Department of Veterans Affairs, including … , who joined her there in 2012. ^[2] Source 2 Washington Post — Edwin Arnold obit (Nov 2012) Newspaper

The contemporary nonprofit AVSOPS.org Nonprofit AVSOPS.org Virginia 501(c)(3) (pending) maintaining an open-data public directory of more than fifteen thousand veterans service organizations and patriotic societies across all fifty states. … — a Virginia 501(c)(3) maintaining an open-data directory of more than fifteen thousand veterans service organizations and patriotic societies — was created in her honor and her husband’s, and exists expressly to carry their legacy of federal service and civic institutional work forward into the public-data era. ^[1] Source 1 AVSOPS.org — Mary and Ed Arnold memorial Website