Susan C. Wendel, a former community outreach specialist for the Baltimore County Department of Aging and who was known for her compassion in working with vulnerable adults, died July 22 of a glioblastoma at Agape Care in Summerville, South Carolina. She was 63.
“Susan served the older adult community and she was extremely dedicated and very supportive of them and her co-workers and the program,” said Mary Pivar, division chief of Baltimore County’s Long Term Services and Support and manager of Community Outreach and Maryland Access.
“She had a wonderful sense of their needs and challenges as adults. She felt deeply for them and their needs,” Ms. Pivar said.
The daughter of Edward “Ed’ Crawford, a Maryland Department of Health psychologist, and Patricia Dulin Crawford, an office manager, Susan Crawford was born in Reisterstown and raised there until moving with her family to Towson.
She was a 1978 graduate of Loch Raven High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology for Salisbury University, where she had been a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority.