Obituaries
Local obituaries for Abingdon, Bel Air, Jarrettsville, MD, and surrounding areas.
Bob Knaggs
Dec 27, 2017
Bob Knaggs, age 88, of Joppa, MD passed away on December 27, 2017 at his home. Born in Elkins, WV, he was the son of Owlan and Winifred Virginia (Adams) Knaggs. He served his country in the Navy during WWII. He was in the Boy Scouts and became a leader for 32 leaders, earning entry into the Order of the...
Andrew Scott Overacre
Dec 27, 2017
Andrew Scott Overacre, beloved son of Allan and Jeannie Overacre, cherished brother of Sarah Anne Overacre, went to join our Lord on Wednesday December 27th. Andrew will always be remembered for his quite disposition, his relaxed manner, and his insatiable appetite for the simplest pleasures of life. Andrew especially enjoyed swimming, swinging in his hammock, horseback riding, and bike trailer...
Christopher Kyle Griggs
Dec 27, 2017
Christopher Kyle Griggs, age 33, of Edgewood, Maryland passed away on December 27, 2017 at his home. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the son of Susan Ann (Griggs) Derlunas of Edgewood and Dwain Kyle Gardner. He was a 2002 graduate of Harford Technical High School and enjoyed working as a plumber for Custom Mechanical. He loved his children. In...
Kenneth Edward Jones
Dec 27, 2017
Kenneth Edward Jones, age 68, of Belcamp, MD passed away on December 27, 2017 at his home. Born in Wise County, VA, he was the son of Hubert and Margie Marian (Maddox) Jones. He retired from Giant Food, after 30 years of service, where he was a Manager of the Meat Department. He was a member of Grace Assembly of...
Millard Franklin Minnick Jr.
Dec 26, 2017
Millard Franklin Minnick Jr., age 74, of Aberdeen, MD passed away on December 26, 2017 at Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace, MD. Born in Bel Air, MD, he was the son of Millard Franklin Minnick Sr. and Ruth Elizabeth (McGrady) Minnick. He retired from the State Highway Administration after thirty three year of service. He also loved hunting...
John Joseph Giza Jr.
Dec 25, 2017
John Joseph Giza Jr., age 78, of Rosedale, MD passed away on December 25, 2017 at Overlea Health and Rehabilitation Ctr. in Baltimore, MD. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of John Joseph and Marie Vivian (Andrychowski) Giza. A 1960 graduate of Holy Cross, he served his country in the U.S. Army. He worked as a supervisor for Western...
David G. Fazenbaker Sr.
Dec 25, 2017
David Gordon Fazenbaker Sr., age 79, of Fallston, MD passed away on December 25, 2017 at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson, MD. Born in Baltimore, MD, he was the son of Ernest Reid Fazenbaker and Goldie Marie (Rice) Fazenbaker. He served his country in the U.S. Marine Corps. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and gardening. Mr. Fazenbaker is survived by his wife,...
William (Bill) E. Medley Sr.
Dec 24, 2017
William (Bill) E. Medley Sr., age 74, of Bel Air, MD passed away on December 24, 2017 at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air. Born in Sugar Grove, VA, he was the son of James Stuart Medley and Juanita “Bonnie” (Wyatt) Medley. He enjoyed golfing, hunting, turkey shoots, watching WVA Mountaineers Football and crabbing. He worked as an Automotive...
Mae Margaret Opie
Dec 24, 2017
Mae Margaret Opie, age 80, of Bel Air, MD passed away on December 24, 2017 at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air. Born in Flintstone, MD, she was the daughter of Homer Cross Rice and Zerna Belinda (Jordan) Rice. Since she was a young girl she felt her calling in life was teaching. She was a school teacher in...
Brig. Gen. Robert Dawson Cardwell Jr.
Dec 23, 2017
Brigadier General Robert D. Cardwell, Jr. passed away peacefully at his Bel Air, MD home on December 23rd, 2017. Born in Baltimore on February 1, 1935 to Robert D. Cardwell, Sr. and Grace Eleanor (Johnson) Cardwell, he was a graduate of Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. The General began his forty year military career in 1954 and was awarded his pilot wings...
Dennis L. Caudill
Dec 23, 2017
Dennis L. Caudill, age 85, of Churchville, Maryland passed away on December 23, 2017 at Bel Air Health and Rehabilitation in Bel Air, Maryland. Born in Cherry Lane, North Carolina, he was the son of Bert M. and Stella J. (Hamm) Caudill. He had retired from the Aberdeen Post Office after 36 years of service as a mail carrier. He...
Rita Mae Carpenter
Dec 22, 2017
Rita Mae Williams Carpenter, 86, of Abingdon, passed away peacefully on Friday, December 22, 2017. Rita was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was born in Belcamp, MD on September 16, 1931, the daughter of the late Earl Williams and Mary Grover Williams. She was preceded in death by her husband, Elmer V. Carpenter, who died in 1995....
Donald R. Bowie
Dec 22, 2017
Donald R. Bowie, age 82, of Edgewood, Maryland passed away on December 22, 2017 at his home. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he was the son of Donald Robert Bowie and Mildred (Feldkemp) Bowie. He was a Vietnam War veteran and had worked as a research chemist at APG Edgewood. He attended St. Stephen’s Catholic Church where he was a Head...
Iva May Rinehart
Dec 22, 2017
On December 22, 2017, Iva May Rinehart (nee Sparrow), age 74 of Bel Air, Md. died peacefully at home after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer, with her family at her side. Iva was the beloved wife of Gary W. Rinehart for 48 years, loving mother of Heather Leigh Hoppenstein and husband Brian of Westminster, Md., Gary B. Rinehart and...
Arne Armas Johnson
Dec 21, 2017
Arne Armas Johnson, age 57, of Bel Air, MD passed away on December 21, 2017. Born in Foster, RI, he is the son of Arne Armas Johnson and the late Sylvia (Corey) Johnson. In his youth he was an Eagle Scout, lifeguard and waterfront instructor at BSA Camp Yawgoog. He worked as a Chemical Engineer for the Department of the...
Sally Burchette Isom
Dec 20, 2017
Sally Burchette Isom, age 90, of Bel Air, MD passed away on December 20, 2017 at her home. Born in Galax, VA, she was the daughter of Oscar Wallace and Ruby Dot (Bartlett) Welch and was the wife of the late Robert Blaine Burchette Sr. and Boss Dan Isom. She was a long time member of St. Margaret Catholic Church...
Marie L. Macomber
Dec 18, 2017
Marie Macomber, age 95, of Bel Air, MD passed away on December 18, 2017 at her home. Born in Baltimore, MD, she was the daughter of Casmir and Stella (Jablonsky) Bandzwolek and was the wife of the late George Edward Macomber. For many decades, she loved to fish and crab during summer vacations in Ocean City, and more recently in...
Evonell W. Draper
Dec 18, 2017
Evonell Williams Draper of Bel Air, MD, died on December 18,2017. She was 87. She was born January 13, 1930, Galax, VA, the daughter of the late Joseph M. and Avis C. Williams, and the wife of Robert J. “Buck” Draper. She retired in March, 1986, as an Executive Secretary and Personal Assistant to the Technical Director, Army Chemical Center’s...
Betty J. O'Leary
Dec 18, 2017
Betty J. O'Leary, age 91, of Bel Air, MD passed away on December 18, 2017 at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air. Born in Edgewood, MD, she was the daughter of Wilton Edwin and Agnes Gladys (Cohee) Bechtold and was the wife of the late Edwin A. O’Leary. She was a member of St. Margaret Catholic Church, the Knights...
Maynard W. Geisler
Dec 16, 2017
Maynard W. Geisler, age 77, of Bel Air, MD passed away on December 16, 2017 at Lorien Riverside in Belcamp, MD. Born in La Hogue, Illinois, he was the son of George Geisler and Cleo (Ringeisen) Seiling. A Vietnam veteran of the U.S. Army, he retired as Master Sergeant E8 with 20 years of service. He then went on to...
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