Obituaries

Apr 2, 2004

RONALD K. BISKUP, SR. age 67, of Bel Air, MD died in Upper Chesapeake Medical Center on April 2, 2004. Born in Rochester, Pennsylvania, he was the son of the late Frank and Irene Biskup. He worked at Edgewood Arsenal from 1959-1977 as a toxicologist. He worked for the Food and Drug Administration in the center of Food Safety and...

Apr 1, 2004

JAMES B. HALL, son of the late Maston and Ruth Haga Hall, was born on December 8, 1930 in Harford County, Maryland. He died at his residence in Havre de Grace, Maryland, sometime in March 2004, at the age of 73.Mr. Hall was a member of the Oak Grove Baptist Church in Bel Air, Maryland, and spent his entire life...

Apr 1, 2004

T. GERHART, age 46, of Forest Hill, died in Upper Chesapeake Medical Center on April 1, 2004. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he was the son of Tiburtius Gerhart, Sr. of New Orleans, Louisiana and the late Jennie Lee Marie Matherne Gerhart. He retired from the U.S. Marine Corps after serving 23 years. He enjoyed woodworking. He worked at the...

Mar 31, 2004

ELZA COLE CHAPPELL, age 98, of Forest Hill, MD, died at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, Bel Air, MD on March 31, 2004. She passed away one day shy of her 99th birthday. Born in Grayson, Virginia, she was the daughter of the late Layfayette Anderson and Susan Francis Moxley Caudle and the wife of 30 years of the late Edgar...

Mar 31, 2004

JOHN CHARLES BURKHARDT, age 91, of Belcamp died in Upper Chesapeake Medical Center on March 31, 2004. Born in Middletown, Ohio, he was the son of the late William A. and Elizabeth Marling Burkhardt. He had retired in 1965 after 23 years of service with the U.S. Army. He was a master sergeant serving in WW II, the Korean Conflict...

Mar 29, 2004

JOHN D. STEELE, age 77, of Joppa, died at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center on March 29, 2004. Born in Bristol, Virginia, he was the son of the late Eugene Vance and Barbara Jessee Steele, and the husband of the late Orpha Elizabeth Rigsby Steele. He retired after 38 years of service with the Patapsco and Back River Railroad where he...

Mar 29, 2004

DOROTHY B. POWELL, age 83, of Bel Air died at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center on March 29, 2004. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of the late Howard H. and Lura W. Brosius and the wife of the late Richard B. Powell. She had been a resident of Harford County since 1980. She taught math and science at...

Mar 28, 2004

WILLIAM “BILL” H. BURKHOUSE, SR., age 73, of Bel Air, died at his home on March 28, 2004. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of the late Arthur John and Anna Helena Sprole Burkhouse. He had retired after 28 years of service with Food Fair Stores, Inc. which later became Pantry Pride in the Maryland/D.C. area. He was a...

Mar 28, 2004

GARY MARVIN WHITENACK, age 56, of Churchville, died in St. Joseph’s Hospital, Tampa, Florida on March 28, 2004. Born in Lester, West Virginia he was the son of Marvin and Flora Cochran Whitenack of Chase, MD. He had retired after 15 years of service as mail carrier at the Aberdeen Post Office. He served his country in the Army during...

Mar 27, 2004

Mar 23, 2004

JEAN K. GROVE, 81, of Churchville, died at Bayview Medical Center on March 23, 2004. Born in Alexandria, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of the late Charles Harnish and Marie Beharry Koser and the wife of the Robert Benjamin Grove. She graduated from Alexandria High School in 1940. She was a member of the Daughters of Ruth Sunday School class...

Mar 23, 2004

Mar 22, 2004

SHIRLEY J. STOYER, age 61, of Rising Sun, formerly of Harford County, died at her home on March 22, 2004. Born in Sneedville, Tennessee, she was the daughter of the late Walter and Mary Katherine Henderson DePew. She had worked for Congressman Gilcrest for 14 years as a district representative in Bel Air. Mrs. Stoyer is survived by one son,...

Mar 22, 2004

CHARLES J. BARNICKEL, age 85, of Rising Sun, formerly of Joppa, died at his residence on March 22, 2004. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of the late John George and Mary Maygers Barnickel and the husband of the late Margaret Ann West Barnickel. He had retired after 20 years of service with Wallace Asbestos where he worked as...

Mar 22, 2004

GEORGE D. MORRSION, SR., age 73, of Edgewood, died at Mariner Health of Bel Air on March 22, 2004. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of the late William and Beatrice Brothers Morrison and the husband of the late Mary Louise Wheekly Morrison to whom he was married for 47 years. He was a chemist and sales representative for...

Mar 21, 2004

ALBERT ARNOLD GERICKE, age 88, of Edgewood, died in Mariner Health of Forest Hill on March 21, 2004. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of the late Elizabeth Birgel Weinschenk, and the husband for 43 years of the late Gertrude Mary Leibig Gericke. He retired after 46 years of service with Baltimore Gas and Electric where he worked as...

Mar 21, 2004

Mar 20, 2004

CARL WILLIAM KAISER, age 80, of Fallston, died at his residence on March 20, 2004. Born in Buffalo, New York, he was the son of the late Charles Augustus, Jr. and Helen Beatrice Frost Kaiser. He had retired after approximately 35 years of service as an insurance salesman, with First Lutheran Brotherhood and then with Aid Association for Lutherans Insurance...

Mar 20, 2004

OKIEY EASTER ELLIOTT, age 82, of Bel Air, died in Jacobs Well Assisted Living on March 20, 2004. Born in Salem, Virginia, he was the son of the late Other Clarence and Georgie Belle Mabes Elliott, and the husband of the late Anna Frances Jones Elliott and the late Doris Margaret Jakobski Elliott. A life long resident of Harford County,...

Mar 19, 2004

GLEN PROFFIT, age 87, of Joppa, died at Mariner Health in Bel Air on March 19, 2004. Born in Morehead, Kentucky, he was the son of the late Kelly and Lyda M. Berton Proffit. He retired after 30 years of service from Bethlehem Steel where he worked as a crane operator. A resident of Harford County for 22 years, he...