Cynthia "Cindy" Lacey Holmes-Radner

Cynthia “Cindy” Lacey Holmes-Radner, age 61 in Catonsville, Maryland departed this earth on March 12th, 2023 after an extended battle with recurrent breast cancer.

Cindy was born December 28, 1961, in Lynn, Massachusetts to Andrew Bartlett Holmes, Jr. and Betty Dean Holmes. She was raised in Swampscott by her mother who taught her kindness and empathy, and her father who taught her the importance of fair play and hard work, and her older sisters who unreservedly and enthusiastically taught her everything they knew. She with very deep regret leaves her two beloved children Casey Jessica Radner and Alayna Josephine Radner, her husband Robert Peter Radner, mother Betty Dean Holmes, older sisters Marcia Dean and Nancy Holmes and their husbands, nephews Jonathan Flatley and Jason Flatley and their wives and daughters, brother-in-law David Radner and many cherished friends young and old (you all know who you are!). She hopes they will help support each other since she won’t be there to offer her particular brand of unsolicited advice, affection, direction, teasing, fierce loyalty, and loving care. It pained her greatly to leave you all. You know how she hated not learning the end of a story.

Cindy graduated from Swampscott High School and then Ithaca College, where she met her husband, Bob, in their junior year. They later returned to the Rose Inn near Ithaca, NY in the autumn of 1992 to be married at a small destination weekend wedding with friends and family. They were life partners for more than 40 years laughing, working, loving, and happily arguing together.

Cindy accepted a job as Video Production Specialist in with Ford (Motor) Aerospace in 1986 and moved from Ridge, NY where she was working as a copy editor at American Physical Society to Columbia, MD with her future husband Bob. After 8 years and several roles at Ford, she accepted a position with RWD Technologies (which became GP Strategies and then LTG) where she stayed applying her boundless curiosity and creative skills to producing training for many satisfied clients for more than 27 years. She loved both her talented colleagues and learning about the wide variety of topics that the work involved. Her designs won several awards over the years, but her greatest satisfaction came from learning new things and helping others to learn.

An accomplished quilter, Cindy served as the President of the Laurel (MD) Piecemakers Quilt Guild for 5 years. Then when her children came along, she focused on helping to run, and serving as President of, the Catonsville Cooperative Preschool, where both daughters attended. She made many wonderful lifelong friends there.

Cindy‘s greatest joy was raising her daughters with Bob: they have both turned out to be lovely, kind, and talented people. She and her daughters adored books and derived great pleasure from planning and hosting rooms together at their elementary school’s annual Literature Night. With a room decorated to represent the book and related crafts and activities for young students to enjoy, it was a fun way to celebrate and share their love of reading with the community. Cindy and her daughters participated together for 10 years and devotedly hosted 14 different rooms.

Cindy also reveled in creating elaborately themed birthday parties for her children and their friends. Her husband Bob was adept at bringing her visions to life, a few among the many crazy projects he completed included building a wardrobe for entering Narnia, a secret door for a spy party, and even Harry Potter’s Platform 9 3/4’s and the Hogwart’s Express train in their living room. Fun times, and many happy memories. She also enjoyed hosting annual cookie decorating and caroling parties for her

daughters and their friends and delighted in celebrating her favorite holiday with a Christmas open house for many years.

A faithful Harry Potter fan, she loved visiting Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley at Universal in Florida with her daughters and husband, and also attending Potterversecon twice with her daughter Alayna (who invariably won the trivia contest there).

Cindy is survived by two daughters and her husband, her mother, her sisters and their husbands, her nephews and their families, and many cousins. She was predeceased by her father (2010). Cynthia beat breast cancer twice in 2005 and 2018. So, in her view, her batting average was .667.

Cindy hopes in the end that she lived up to the way Tom Felton described his late fellow actor Helen McCrory: “She was always relentlessly herself—razor sharp wit—silver tongued—kind and warmhearted. She suffered no fools yet had time for everyone.” If there is a way for her to look over and out for all of you in the great beyond, you can be certain that she will.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to:

· Catonsville Cooperative Preschool 6 Melvin Avenue Catonsville MD 21228

· Hillcrest PTSA - Literature Night c/o PTSA 1500 Frederick Road Catonsville MD 21228

· Catonsville Emergency Assistance 25 Bloomsbury Ave Catonsville MD 21228 · The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (elephants) https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/donate

· Dr. Susan Love Foundation for Breast Cancer Research https://drsusanloveresearch.org/get-involved/ways-to-give/