Maya Pinder

Maya Katia Pinder, 45, was born on August 23, 1976 to the late Joyce and Robert Pinder in Washington, D.C. She departed this life on May 13, 2022 at her sister’s home in Cambridge, MD.

Maya attended schools in Virginia and Maryland, graduating from Cambridge South Dorchester High School with the class of 1994. After graduating she moved back to the PG/Washington D.C. area, where she worked with children, then Walmart and her last job being at the D.C. Airport.

Maya’s hobbies included working (a very hard worker), shopping, eating, and talking on the phone. She also loved to travel to Cambridge to spend time with her sister Yashica “Peaches,” and visiting her grandmother who has already preceded her in death.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Joyce and Robert Pinder; grandparents, Ardessa Pinder, John F. Pinder and Elsie Mae Chester Robinson; uncles, Nathaniel Jones and Donald Pinder; a cousin, Donald Pinder, JR. and a great-grandmother, Arealia Jones.

Maya leaves to mourn and cherish her memory a devoted sister, Yashica Pinder; in law Shandra Beulah; two nephews, Craig Jenkins, Jr. and Jha’Rue Stanley; one great-nephew JahMarion Stanley; one great-niece Ny’Reyah Stanley; aunts, Irene Webb (Donnie) and Ella Jones Conway (James); uncles, Paul and William Jones; a special cousin, Denise Harris Randolph; cousins, Dontrell Pinder Murray, Karen Allen Hayes, Vaughn Jones, Dewayne Jones; a grandfather, Harold Stanley; best friend, Diana Stotts and a host of other family and friends.