Obituaries
Local obituaries for Abingdon, Bel Air, Jarrettsville, MD, and surrounding areas.
Ruth Esther Schaefer
May 6, 2011
Ruth Esther Schaefer, age 72, of Bel Air, MD died on May 6, 2011 after a courageous battle with leukemia. Born in Queens, NY, she was the daughter of the late Leroy Sloan and Gertrude Beuerle Richardson. A graduate of St. John's Episcopal School of Nursing in 1959, she served as an OR nurse in multiple hospitals. Ruth later worked...
Penny R. Lewis
May 5, 2011
Penny R. Lewis, age 54, of Joppa, MD, died on May 5, 2011 at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, MD. Born in Syracuse, NY, she is the daughter of Harold David Millson of Waynesboro, VA and the late Patricia Lois Gifford Millson. An electronics assembler, she was born in New York and moved to Maryland when she was...
Alma Eleene Cutlip Hannah
May 5, 2011
Alma Eleene Cutlip Hannah, age 76, of Bel Air, MD, died on May 5, 2011 at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, MD. Born in Lobelia, WV, she was the daughter of the late William Colbert and Hanora Mae Kennis Cutlip and wife of the late George Allen Hannah, who she married in 1954. A Bel Air resident for...
Josephine Phoebie Dorsey
May 4, 2011
Josephine Phoebie (Young) Dorsey, of Copperas Cove, Texas, died on May 4, 2011 at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center. She was 84.The daughter of Arch and Mittie Young, she was born in Henderson, Texas. She was a longtime member of Robertson Avenue Baptist Church of Copperas Cove, Texas. She moved to Abingdon in 2004. Most recently, she was a resident of...
Ruby Virginia Bennett
May 3, 2011
In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to:St. Johns Evangelical Church of Sweet Air3911 Sweet Air RoadPhoenix, MD 21131-1815
Arthur F. Kunes
May 3, 2011
Arthur Frank Kunes, 92, died on May 3, 2011 at the Monkton home of daughter and son-in-law, Carol and Bill Randall. Husband of his beloved wife, the late Dorothy M. Kunes (nee Wolff), he is also survived by daughter Kathy Kimes and her husband Brian, of Rockville, Md., son Arthur Kunes, III, of Baltimore, son David Kunes and his wife...
Edward D. Litzinger Jr.
May 2, 2011
Edward D. Litzinger Jr., age 62, of Aberdeen, MD, died on May 2, 2011 at his home. Born in Havre de Grace, MD, he is the son of Dorothy Virginia Ruby Litzinger and the late Edward Dulaney Litzinger Sr. He retired, after 25 years, from the Aberdeen Police Department where he was a police officer. He loved to fish and...
John William Brewster Sr.
May 2, 2011
John William Brewster Sr., age 65, of Joppa, MD, died on May 2, 2011 at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, MD. Born in Tazewell County, VA, he was the son of the late John Andrew and Stella Virginia Price Brewster. He enjoyed his long time career in glass work, and continued with it as a hobby. He loved...
Daniel F. Mullen
Apr 30, 2011
Daniel F. Mullen, age 71, of Joppa, MD, died on April 30, 2011 at his home surrounded by family. Born in Mt. Vernon, NY, he was the son of the late John Thomas and Anna "Nancy" Mullen. A veteran of the U.S. Navy he had owned and operated his own delicatessen business in Yonkers, NY for 21 years. He was...
Jacqueline Teresa Nolte
Apr 30, 2011
Jacqueline Teresa Nolte, age 66, of Abingdon, MD, died on April 30, 2011 at Gilchrist Hospice Center in Towson, MD. Born in Baltimore, MD, she was the daughter of Lucia Freda Egli Gerwig of Abingdon, MD and the late Jacob Fredrick Gerwig Jr. A born again Christian, she loved spending time with her family and being on her computer. In...
Otto Julius Olsson
Apr 26, 2011
Otto J. Olsson, age 86, of Tucson, AZ and Bel Air, MD, died of natural causes on April 26, 2011 at Hart Heritage in Forest Hill, MD. Born in Jamaica, NY, he was the son of the late John Olaf and Margit Ellertsen Morbekk Olsson. As an architect, builder, real estate developer and entrepreneur, he owned and operated his own...
Gilbert ''Gib'' Grayson Owen Sr.
Apr 26, 2011
Gilbert "Gib" Grayson Owen Sr., age 85, of Joppa, MD, died on April 26, 2011 at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, MD. Born in Rugby, VA, he was the son of the late Grover Marvin Owen and Celia Jane Reedy. Mr. Owen was a disabled veteran of WWII when he became an amputee at the age of 18....
Linda Paige Morris
Apr 25, 2011
Linda Paige Morris, age 62, of New Port Richey, FL, died on April 25, 2011 at Gulfside Regional Hospice Center at Bayonet Point Health and Rehabilitation in Hudson, FL. Born in Dayton, OH on July 7, 1948, she was the daughter of the late Ronald John Benke Jr. and Mae Marie Brodt Benke. She grew up in Maryland and was...
Marion Andersen
Apr 25, 2011
On April 25, 2011, Marion Andersen , age 81, of Bel Air, MD, passed away. She was the beloved wife of the late Harold Andersen; devoted mother of Susan Elaine Moore and husband, Nathan, and Sandra Louise May and husband, Jay. She is also survived by grandchildren, Erica Susan Miller and Kathryn Whitfield Strupp; and great-grandchildren, Peyton Whitfield Strupp and...
Dorothy Nelson Amoss Kee
Apr 25, 2011
Dorothy Nelson Amoss Kee, of Joppa, MD, died on April 25, 2011 at the age of 92 at her home. Born on November 27, 1918 in Baltimore, MD, she was the daughter of the late James and Nellie Burton Amoss and wife of the late Leland M. Kee. She enjoyed sewing and making dolls, and in her later years, traveling...
Mildred O. Riley
Apr 25, 2011
Mildred O. Riley, age 90, of Forest Hill, MD, died on April 25, 2011 at her home. Born in Kewanee, IL, she was the daughter of the late Clyde Vernon and Laura Bell Waddel Tibbs. A lifelong resident of Harford County she worked for 60 years at Atlanta Hall Farms which is owned and operated by the Voss family of...
Ellen Barbara Rasnake
Apr 24, 2011
Ellen Barbara Rasnake, age 89, of Joppa, MD, died on April 24, 2011 at her home. Born in 1922 in Dickensen County, VA, she was one of five children of the late David Henry Tiller and Maggie Powers Tiller. She lived as a young woman in Virginia and attended Haysi High School where she played basketball. She was the Post...
Shirley Jean Ward
Apr 24, 2011
Shirley Jean Ward, age 61, of Joppa, MD, died on April 24, 2011 at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, MD. Born in Havre de Grace, MD, she is the daughter of Lillian Hammel Foreman of Perryman, MD and the late Albert Clinton Foreman. She retired from Harris Fire Protection Company where she worked as a secretary. In addition...
Anne Jaeger
Apr 24, 2011
Anne Jaeger, age 73, of Bel Air, Maryland, died on April 24, at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Raised in Harford County, she was the daughter of Paul and Esther Silver Jaeger. After attending Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, she began a career in medical research. Over the years, she was associated with Wyeth Labs, Stanford University, University of California at Irvine,...
Gwendolyn M. Crouse
Apr 23, 2011
Gwendolyn M. Crouse, who would have turned 80 on April 29th, of Aberdeen, MD, died suddenly on April 23, 2011 at University of Maryland Hospital Stroke Center in Baltimore, MD. Born in Churchville, MD, she was the daughter of the late Vonley Dewell and Myrtle Edna Keller Gentry, and wife of the late Allen Junior Crouse. Mrs. Crouse is survived...
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