Obituaries
Local obituaries for Abingdon, Bel Air, Jarrettsville, MD, and surrounding areas.
Lorraine M. Keller
Mar 18, 2005
LORRAINE M. KELLER, age 72, of Baltimore, formerly of Aberdeen, died in Joseph Richie Hospice in Baltimore on March 18, 2005. Born in Rocks, Maryland, she was the daughter of the late Booker Lee and Annie Lee Grace DeBoard. She worked in the health care business as a care taker. She was a 30 year member of the Eastern Star...
Richard Wayne Butler
Mar 17, 2005
RICHARD “WAYNE” BUTLER, age 67, of Havre de Grace, died at his home on March 17, 2005. Born in Washington, D.C. on December 3, 1937, he was the son of the late Robert E. and Hattie Higgins Butler. His family moved to Baltimore in the spring of 1945. At the age of 23, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. He...
Laverne Ridgeway Britton
Mar 16, 2005
LaVERNE RIDGEWAY BRITTON, age 80, of Forest Hill died at his home on March 16, 2005. Born in Towson, he was the son of the late Roy Donzelle and Hazel Ethelburt Green Britton. He retired as a security manager for Fallston General Hospital. He served his country in the United States Army during WW II and was a member of...
Robert Madison Holmes
Mar 16, 2005
ROBERT MADISON HOLMES, age 60, of Abingdon, died at his home on March 16, 2005. Born in Reedley, California, he was the son of the late John Webb, Sr. and Freda Laverne Walker Holmes. A resident of Harford County for 6 years, he had worked for GTE for 30 years, currently with Nextel, as a project manager. He was a...
Marvin Edward Swift
Mar 15, 2005
MARVIN E. SWIFT, age 84, of Fallston died Tuesday, March 15, 2005 at his home. Born in Woodbine, PA, he was the son of the late William Henry and Lula Ann Shanbarger Swift. He was a welder at Port Deposit for many years and was a member of the Teamsters Union for 16 years. He and his wife, Blanche Wyatt...
Reid Coulson
Mar 14, 2005
REID COULSON, husband of Marjorie Crawford Coulson died at his home in Edgewood on March 14, 2005 at the age of 72 after a long illness. Born in Carroll County, Virginia in 1932, he was the sixth child and only son of the late Barney Stanford Coulson and Lucy Harris Coulson.He attended the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore and...
Glenn William Samples, Sr.
Mar 14, 2005
GLENN WILLIAM SAMPLES, Sr., age 74, of Edgewood, Maryland, formerly of Rock Cave, West Virginia, died in Perry Point Veterans Hospital, Perryville, Maryland, on March 14, 2005. Born in Buckhannon, West Virginia, he was the son of the late Amoss Marion Samples and the late Edna Mae Burnside Huffman and the husband of the late Edna Stewart Samples. He worked...
Marion R. Fedas
Mar 14, 2005
MARION R. FEDAS, age 72, of Aberdeen, died at Harford Memorial Hospital on March 14, 2005. Born in Wilkes-Barre, PA, she was the daughter of the late John and Mary Nardi Parenti. She worked as a congressional aid for the U.S. Government. She was active in politics in the Democratic Party. She was a member of St. Joan of Arc...
Wilber L. Younger
Mar 14, 2005
WILBUR L. “ABE” YOUNGER, age 85, of Bel Air, died in Upper Chesapeake Medical Center on March 14, 2005. Born in Garrison, MD on May 6, 1919, he was the son of the late Frank W. Younger and Katie Bentley Younger (nee Romans).He worked for Montgomery Ward for 38 years as a service technician. He retired in 1983 and joined...
Hubert L. Orr
Mar 13, 2005
HUBERT L. ORR, age 79, of Abingdon, Maryland died in Harbor Hospital, Baltimore, MD on March 13, 2005. Born in Robbinsville, North Carolina, he was the son of the late Jacob Joel and Ethel Mae Stratton Orr. He had retired after 37 years as a stamp clerk at the Calvert Distillery. He enjoyed pitching horseshoes, woodworking, and taking trips to...
Cecil E. Cornwell
Mar 12, 2005
CECIL E. CORNWELL, age 85, of Bel Air, died in Perry Point Veterans Hospital, Perryville on March 12, 2005. Born in Lewisburg, West Virginia, he was the son of the late George Washington and Priscilla Scott Hankins Cornwell and the husband of the late Jeanette Allene Cox Cornwell. He had retired from Aberdeen Proving Ground where he worked as a...
Mary Elizabeth Palewick
Mar 12, 2005
MARY ELIZABETH PALEWICK, age 96, of Abingdon, formerly of Long Bar Harbor Road, died in Harford Memorial Hospital on March 12, 2005. Born in Baltimore, one of 10 children, she was the wife of the late James R. Bracken, Sr. and the late August J. Palewick. She worked as a registered nurse at Mercy Hospital for 1929-1969. Upon the death...
Orville Haston Lyons
Mar 11, 2005
ORVILLE HASTON LYONS, age 80, of Churchville, MD, died at his residence on March 11, 2005. Born in Glade Valley, North Carolina, he was the son of the late William Haston and Rachel Frances Thompson Lyons, and the husband of the late O. Lucille Andrews Lyons. A lifetime dairy farmer, he owned and operated his own farm. He also was...
Fred Douglas Mongan, Sr
Mar 11, 2005
FRED DOUGLAS MONGAN, SR., age 67, of Belcamp, died in Upper Chesapeake Medical Center on March 11, 2005. Born in Hagerstown, Maryland, he was the son of the late Solie Martin and Helen Louise Bisser Mongan. He had retired from the U.S. Navy as a Petty Officer First Class. He had served during the Vietnam Conflict. In 1976 he became...
Mary Alice Matthews
Mar 11, 2005
MARY ALICE MATTHEWS, age 97, of Bel Air, died in Mariner Health of Forest Hill on March 11, 2005. Born in Kalmia, Maryland, one of 13 children she was the daughter of the late Milton James, Sr. and Annie May Elliott Bull, and the wife for 33 years of the late Thomas Oliver Matthews, Sr. She and her husband owned...
Alvin Blake
Mar 10, 2005
ALVIN BLAKE, of Bel Air, died March 10 at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air from complications due to pneumonia. He was 86.Born in Bynum, Maryland, he was the son of the late James Henry and Ella Lavinia Jones Blake and a single man all of his life. He was a lifetime resident of Harford County and a diary...
Ernestine A. Meisel
Mar 9, 2005
ERNESTINE A. MEISEL, age 82, of Havre de Grace, died in Franklin Square Hospital Center on March 9, 2005. Born in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, she was the daughter of the late John Ernest and Fawn Ayres Marlow and the wife of the late Jospeh T. Meisel. She was a member of Mountain Christian Church since 1998. She loved big band music...
Donald H. Kummer
Mar 9, 2005
DONALD H. KUMMER, age 76, of Joppa, died at his home on March 9, 2005. Born in Severn, Maryland, he was the son of the late Leslie Henry, Sr. and Violet Winafred Herwig Kummer, and the husband of the late Elizabeth Anne Murray Kummer. After 38 years of service, he had retired from the C & P Telephone Company where...
Eugene Harris
Mar 8, 2005
EUGENE HARRIS, age 80, of Joppa, died at Harford Memorial Hospital on March 8, 2005. Born in Drill, Virginia, he was the son of the late Luther and Virgie Mae Tiller Harris and the husband for 33 years of the late Elizabeth Irene Greiner Harris. A resident of Edgewood for over 30 years, he had retired from Edgewood Arsenal after...
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