Obituaries

Dec 30, 2002

HOWARD EUGENE HINKLE, age 67, of Bel Air, died in Johns Hopkins Hospital on December 30, 2002. Born in Kingsport, Tennessee, he was the son of the late James Hinkle and Virginia Frances Johnson Herndon. He was a maintenance engineer for the Nottingham Properties, Inc. of Baltimore. He was a member of Fallston VFW. He served his country in the...

Dec 30, 2002

D. BREECE NELSON, age 80, of Bel Air, died in Harford Memorial Hospital on December 30, 2002. Born in Volney, Virginia, he was the son of the late Conley Irwin and Mamie Lea Young Nelson. He moved with his family to Harford County in 1930, where he was a farmer as a young man. He graduated from Bel Air High...

Dec 30, 2002

JANICE “SISSY” HARKINS, age 58, of Bel Air, Maryland, died in Upper Chesapeake Medical Center on December 30, 2002. Born in Baltimore, she was the daughter of Bertha Gertrude Merritt Tawney of Glen Burnie, and the late Lewis Selby Tawney, Jr. She was the wife of the late Charles W. Harkins. She was a member of the American Legion Bel...

Dec 30, 2002

GARY DAVID BURKINS, 59, of Cincinnati, Ohio, formerly of Forest Hill, died at his home on December 30, 2002. Born in Forest Hill, he was the son of the late Charles Hilditch and Della Mae Knopp Burkins. He was retired from Rohm Haas Company where he was a regional sales manager. In his earlier years, he and his family had...

Dec 29, 2002

BONITA E. (BONNIE) MALLON, age 48, of Edgewood, died at Gilchrist Center, Towson, Maryland on December 29, 2002. Born in Baltimore, she was the daughter of Margaret E. Delss Swan of Laurel, Maryland and the late William Joseph Sprole, Jr. She worked for the Baltimore County School Board as a special education teacher assigned to the Hawthorne Elementary School. She...

Dec 28, 2002

Dec 28, 2002

DORIS NEILY LeBRUN, age 85, of Forest Hill, died at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center on December 28, 2002. Born in Baltimore, she was the daughter of the late Ernest and Sara Louise Baugher Neily, and the wife of the late A. Mason LeBrun, who died in 1981. A resident of Towson most of her life, she worked for Baltimore County...

Dec 28, 2002

LARRY LOWE, SR. age 85, of Fallston, formerly of Chattanooga, Tennessee, died in Joseph Richey House, Baltimore, on December 28, 2002. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he was the son of the late James Franklin and Fleda Curtis Lowe, and the husband of the late Johnnie E. Lowe. He worked as a purchasing agent of aluminum. A resident of Harford County...

Dec 27, 2002

LONA C. WEBB, age 78, of Forest Hill, died at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center on December 27, 2002. Born in Lewisburg, West Virginia, she was the daughter of the late Henry Lacey and Anita Olive McMillon Stanley. She worked as a waitress at the Blue Bell Restaurant. She was a member of the Moose Lodge in Forest Hill. She was...

Dec 26, 2002

LELIA M. PANOWITZ, age 54, of Bel Air, MD, died at her home on December 26, 2002 after a valiant 5-year battle with colon-rectal/liver cancer. Born April 17, 1948 in Norfolk, Virginia, she was the daughter of Gloria Gilden McDonald of Virginia Beach, Virginia and the late Walter Franklin McDonald. She worked as a public school teacher for Harford County...

Dec 25, 2002

KEVIN PATRICK YOUNG, age 50, of Bel Air, died on Christmas Evening, December 25, 2002. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was the son of William John Young of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the late Mary Patricia Murphy Young. A project manager for Verizon Communications, he was very dedicated to his job achieving great accomplishments. His career spanned 28 years with Verizon....

Dec 25, 2002

GARNETT WILBURN WOLFE, age 80, of Darlington, died at Genesis Eldercare Cromwell Center, Baltimore on December 25, 2002. Born in Marion, Virginia, he was the son of the late Otho Blair and Mary Ellen Hale Wolfe. He served his country in the U.S. Navy during WW II as Seaman First Class. He had retired from his job as a postal...

Dec 23, 2002

FRED VINCENT GUMP, JR. age 56, of Edgewood, died at his home on December 23, 2002. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Sarah Catherine Cole Gump of Baltimore and the late Fred Vincent Gump, Sr. A resident of Harford County for 30 years, he was the director of Mother Goose Shoe Corp. and the owner and operator of...

Dec 23, 2002

RUBY LEE McCRICKARD, age 90, of Bel Air, died at her residence on December 22, 2002. Born in Tennessee, she was the daughter of the late Meredith and Elizabeth Adaline Ray Moore, and the wife of the late Edward Ward McCrickard. She had retired from her job as a seamstress for Misty Harbor. She moved to Maryland in 1963 and...

Dec 22, 2002

MAUDE MILDRED EASTERDAY, age 79, formerly from Knoxville, died at her daughter’s home in Bel Air on December 22, 2002. Born on March 28, 1923 in Dandridge, Tennessee, and raised in Piedmont, Tennessee, she was the daughter of the late Marion and Iva Heck, and the wife of the late Ben H. Easterday, Sr. She was a member of Union...

Dec 22, 2002

IVAH GREENE, age 71, of Fallston, died at her home on December 21, 2002. Born in Stoney Fork, North Carolina, she was the daughter of Della Rose Younce Greene of Bel Air and the late Berl David Greene. A homemaker, she was a member of Oak Grove Baptist Church since 1964. In addition to her mother, Mrs. Greene is survived...

Dec 21, 2002

ANN MILLER, age 81, of Bel Air, died at her home on December 21, 2002. Born in Saginaw, Michigan, she was the daughter of the late Phillip and Valta Myers Raymond, and the wife of the late Charles F. Miller. A creative and artistic person, she worked as a commercial artist. Her wisdom and insight into the human spirit was...

Dec 20, 2002

HENRY ENGEL, the first Public Defender in the State of Maryland in 1966, age 71, of Bel Air, died in Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, Bel Air, Maryland on December 20, 2002. Born in Staten Island, New York, he was the son of the late Henry Charles, Sr. and Molly Brown Engel. An attorney, with 3 years of service as a...

Dec 20, 2002

EGON MARTÉ, M.D., age 71, of New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, died at Good Samaritan Hospital, Baltimore, on December 20, 2002. Born in Bregenz, Austria, he was the son of the late Karl Marte, M.D. and the late Maria Fink Marte. In his homeland he was the first to graduate Subauspicies rei publicae and finished medical school earning straight A’s. He immigrated...

Dec 19, 2002

FRANCIS THOMAS MANN, age 85, of Havre de Grace, died at Hart Heritage, Street, Maryland, on December 19, 2002. Born in Bismarck, North Dakota, he was the son of the late Thomas and Mabel Metz Mann, and the husband of the late Katherine Carr Mann. A resident of Havre de Grace for 40 years, he had retired from his job...