Owen Carroll Fleming, 81, a thirty-five-year resident of Huntingtown, MD passed away October 27, 2022 at Calvert County Nursing Center in Prince Frederick. Owen was born September 6, 1941, in Covington, VA to Georgia Rae (Sartain) and William Barker Fleming. He was raised in Covington where he attended public schools. In the early 1970’s, he moved to Bowie, MD and was employed in the flooring industry. He married Audrey Jean Bryant on September 28, 1973, and they resided in Bowie until moving to Calvert County in the late 1970’s. Along with his wife Audrey, Owen was a Washington Post newspaper distributor from 1982 until 2007. Owen loved and enjoyed dancing to bluegrass and country music, fishing, crabbing, playing horseshoes, tinkering with machinery, playing poker with his friends, and spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren.
Owen was preceded in death by his wife Audrey in 2013, his parents, a daughter Donna Haarhoff, a son Thomas Wintersteen, and brothers William Fleming, Jr. and David Fleming. He is survived by his son Roger D. Stewart of Gaithersburg, his daughter Tamerind “Tammy” Davis and husband Lee of California, MD, nine grandchildren and twenty-one great-grandchildren, sisters Patricia Amos and Ruth Fleming, both of Covington, and a brother Gary Fleming of Martinsville, VA. He is also survived by his loving dog Chloe.
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