Edith G. Blount, a retired Housing Authority of Baltimore City official who was the widow of state Sen. Clarence W. Blount, died Feb. 15 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at Sinai Hospital. She was 91.

The daughter of Gordon Carrington Jones, a Hochschild Kohn stock clerk, and Edith Harvey Brown Jones, a homemaker, Edith Gordine Jones was born and raised in Baltimore.

After graduating from Frederick Douglass High School in 1944, she earned a bachelor’s degree in 1948 from Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn. She subsequently earned a master’s degree in education from what is now Towson University.

Mrs. Blount worked for the Nashville Housing Authority, Chicago Department of Social Services and the Chicago Housing Authority before returning to Baltimore in 1961, when she joined the city Department of Social Services as a social worker.

She worked for the Housing Authority of Baltimore City and was director of tenant services at the time of her retirement in 1989.

In 1968, she was appointed a social service aide to the Public Housing Resident Advisory Board by Robert C. Embry Jr., then commissioner of Housing and Community Development.

Mrs. Blount was named to the board of review of the Department of Employment and Social Services by the state Senate in 1972 and again in 1976.

She was named to the board of review for the state Department of Human Resources in 1979, and in the early 1990s served as a member of the Domiciliary Care Facilities Board.

The former Annapolis and longtime Pikesville resident was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and was a former member of Carats Inc. and Epicureans Inc.

Her first husband, Dr. Oswald E. Chisolm, was a dentist.

They were married in 1950, and he died in 1960.

She was was married for 37 years to Senator Blount, who was known as the “Conscience of the Senate.” He died in 2003.

Mrs. Blount was a lifetime member and trustee of Grace Presbyterian Church, 2606 Banister Road in West Baltimore, where a memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. today.

She is survived by a stepson, Michael Blount of Cumberland; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

She was predeceased by two sons, Oswald Edward “Chipper” Chisholm, who died in 2000, and Mark Gordon Oswald, who died in 2014.

—?Frederick N. Rasmussen