Eleanor W. Nagle, the former secretary-treasurer of her husband's Cockeysville business and a champion duckpin bowler, died of pneumonia Tuesday at Keswick Multi-Care Center. She was 87.

The daughter of Joseph Watkins and Ethel Hughes Watkins, both technicians for Lever Bros., Eleanor Watkins was born in South Wales, Great Britain. The family immigrated to Baltimore in 1930 and settled in Hamilton.

She was a 1946 graduate of Eastern High School. Two years later, she graduated from Bard Avon, a Baltimore business and secretarial school.

While working at Crown Cork & Seal, she met and fell in love with her future husband, John J. Nagle Jr. They married in 1952 and established a home in Wiltondale, where they raised their children.

During the 1960s, Mrs. Nagle was secretary-treasurer of Beautywood Kitchens of Cockeysville, a business owned by her husband. In the 1980s he established Nagle Homes, a residential construction business.

Mr. Nagle died in 2008.

Mrs. Nagle had served as vice president of the Parents' Association at the old Mount Washington School for Boys, and had been on the boards of the Mother's Club of Loyola High School and Notre Dame Preparatory School.

She had been a member and president of the Women's Club of Wiltondale.

A former member of the Baltimore Country Club and a champion duckpin bowler, Mrs. Nagle set a club record with a score of 202. She also enjoyed golf and was a member of the 9-Hole Ladies Group.

In addition to being an avid gardener, she liked writing poetry and interior decorating.

Services are private.

Mrs. Nagle is survived by three sons, Baltimore County Circuit Judge John J. Nagle III of Timonium, Patrick B. Nagle of Parkton and Michael E. Nagle of Naperville, Ill.; two daughters, Karen N. Galvin of Timonium and Kimberly M. Nagle of Cockeysville; and eight grandchildren.

—?Frederick N. Rasmussen