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Made in DC is there, and the Christ Child Opportunity Shop is a couple of doors down, so I’d check in there.

Mary Morton, 84, who accompanied her husband around the world on Foreign Service assignments and later served as chair of the Opportunity Shop at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Washington, died April 3 at a residential facility for seniors in Bethesda, Md. The cause was lung cancer, said a family friend, Hans Tuch.

This being Thanksgiving week, I decided to write about St. John’s and another store similar to it, the St. Alban’s Opportunity Shop in the District.

My wife and I spent most of last summer moving, so we donated stuff we had accumulated over 19 years — everything from coffee mugs to power tools — to a thrift shop called the Opportunity Shop of St. John’s Church in Chevy Chase, Md.

Maureen Mauvais, 86, a volunteer at Christ Child Society Opportunity Shop in Washington and at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, died April 19 at a rehabilitation facility in North Bethesda.