Remembering Bill Offutt, who wrote the book on Bethesda’s history
” and on Monday a copy of it was among the photos and other ephemera of Offutt’s life displayed at Our Lady of Lourdes Church.It’s as thick as a phone book: 783 pages, down from the thousand or so in Offutt’s first draft. When you really love the history of a place, you tend not to want to skimp. Offutt interviewed more than 200 people for his book and pored through countless newspaper articles., when the first edition came out.
Of course, Offutt had experienced a lot of Bethesda’s history himself. Offutt’s family home was cater-cornered from Our Lady of Lourdes, where he went to elementary school. He went to St. John’s for high school, before heading to college at the University of Maryland, graduating in 1954. He taught history and English in Montgomery County Public Schools, retiring in 1989 from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High, which is a block from where his childhood home once stood.
Offutt is an old Maryland family name. The index to the book lists 19 Offutts, from “Offutt, Anna Lyles” to “Offutt, Winsor.” Offutt could trace his family back to the Revolution. One ancestor wasHis wife — nee Eda Barthel Schrader — told me her family arrived in “only” 1848.They met when Bill was 17 and she was 15. He’d stayed around after a New Year’s Eve party to help clean up. That made him “a keeper,” she said.
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