Obituaries

Local obituaries for Abingdon, Bel Air, Jarrettsville, MD, and surrounding areas.

Emory Wheat

Emory Wheat

Feb 1, 2013

Emory Wheat, age 70, of Pell City, AL, passed away on February 1, 2013 at his home in Belcamp, MD. Born in Churchville, MD, he was the son of the late Jennings Emory Wheat Sr. and Ruth Elizabeth Wilson Wheat. Born and raised in Harford County, Emory has had a lifelong love of flying and everything that it represented. At...

L. Brooks Ramsey

L. Brooks Ramsey

Feb 1, 2013

L. Brooks Ramsey, age 79 of Kingsville, MD passed away on February 1, 2013 at his home. Born in Burnsville, NC, he was the son of the late Salvie Louis and Mabel Grace Westall Ramsey. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, he served our country in the Korean War. He moved to Maryland in 1954 and lived the majority of...

Nancy Ellen Hyde

Nancy Ellen Hyde

Jan 31, 2013

Nancy Ellen Hyde, age 84, of Abingdon, MD, passed away on January 31, 2013 at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium, MD. Born in Johnstown, PA, she was the daughter of the late Forest Harold and Mary Catherine Eckstein Byroade and wife of the late Carl Marcomin and Leo Hyde. She had worked for Hess Shoes where she was the assistant...

James A. Taylor

James A. Taylor

Jan 30, 2013

James A. Taylor, age 94, of Havre de Grace, MD passed away on January 30, 2013 at Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace. Born in Havre de Grace, he was the son of the late Robert Nolan and Elsie Maude Forwood Taylor. A lifelong resident of Harford County where he was born and raised, he was a supervisor for...

Rita Ciemny Handy

Rita Ciemny Handy

Jan 30, 2013

Rita Ciemny Handy, age 84, of Bel Air, MD, passed away on January 30, 2013 at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, MD. Born in Baltimore, MD, she was the daughter of the late Leopold Albert and Victoria Tyskiewicz Cymber Ciemny. She worked in the billing department at Paris Castoro Eye Center. She was a parishioner of St. Margaret...

Frederic Terrance "Terry" Hale

Frederic Terrance "Terry" Hale

Jan 30, 2013

Frederic Terrance (Terry) Hale, age 63, of Abingdon, MD, passed away on January 30, 2013 at the VA Nursing Home in Baltimore, MD. Born in Charleston, WV, he was the son of Lucille Marcella Campbell Hale and the late Edward Henry Hale. A career Airman, he was a Senior Master Sgt. E8 who served our country in Vietnam, Desert Storm...

Nancy French

Nancy French

Jan 29, 2013

Nancy French, age 82, of Joppatowne, MD, passed away on January 29, 2013 at Lorien Riverside in Belcamp, MD. Born in Portage, WI, she was the daughter of the late Henry Michael and Catherine Maude Murphy Egan. A homemaker and a good cook, she loved to visit family in Madison and attend the Egan family reunions. She was devoted to...

Thomas L. Murtaugh

Thomas L. Murtaugh

Jan 29, 2013

Thomas L. Murtaugh, age 70, of Bel Air, MD passed away on January 29, 2013 at his home. Born in Atlantic City, NJ, he was the son of the late Thomas Harris and Theresa Lombardi Murtaugh. He was a resident of Harford County for 30 years. He attended Temple University and earned a Masters Degree in Psychology. He obtained his...

John George Allen

John George Allen

Jan 29, 2013

John George Allen, age 75, of Lewes, DE, formerly of Forest Hill, MD, passed away on January 29, 2013 at his son's home. Born in Baltimore, MD, he was the son of the late George Francis Allen and Anna Elizabeth Jurtinus. He was a 1956 graduate of the Old Calvert Hall High School, a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard,...

William (Bill) Rowe

William (Bill) Rowe

Jan 27, 2013

William (Bill) Rowe, age 66, of Abingdon, MD, passed away on January 27, 2013 at his home. Born in Baltimore, MD, he was the son of Audrey Beatrice Barnett Rowe and the late Charles William Rowe and husband of the late Mary Lee Rowe. He was a member of the Army Reserves and was very active at St. Margaret School....

John Gentner

John Gentner

Jan 27, 2013

On Sunday, January 27, 2013, John Gentner lost his courageous, albeit brief, battle with cancer. John leaves to cherish his memory his beloved son and daughter-in-law, Jay and Amy Gentner and his beloved granddaughters, Breanna (Miss B) and Kayley (Miss K) Gentner. A graduate of Saint Agnes Elementary School, Catonsville, MD; Notre Dame High School, Batavia, NY; and Loyola College,...

Jean Eleanor Hanson

Jean Eleanor Hanson

Jan 27, 2013

Jean Eleanor Hanson died on January 27, 2013 in Lutherville. She was 98 years old. She was the beloved wife of the late Herman A. Hanson; mother of Dianne Hanson Nagel and her husband, the late Dr. J. David Nagel, of Butler, Maryland; grandmother of Carrie Hanson Etheridge and her husband, Randal Bennett Etheridge, III; and great-grandmother of Veronica Mae...

Elaine Z. Allen

Elaine Z. Allen

Jan 26, 2013

Elaine Zimmerman Allen passed away on January 26th at the age of 74 at Glen Meadows Retirement Community after a decade-long battle with Lewy Body Disease. Elaine was born October 2, 1938, 20 minutes after her twin sister, Marian in York, Pennsylvania. At the age of two, the family moved from York to Linthicum, Maryland where Elaine grew up. She...

Mary Regina Adams

Mary Regina Adams

Jan 26, 2013

Mary Regina Adams, age 86, of Bel Air, MD, passed away on January 26, 2013 at Citizens Care Center in Havre de Grace, MD. Born in Bel Air, MD, she was the daughter of the late Preston Bernard and Ella Mae Jordan Hilditch and wife, for 50 years, of the late John Robert Adams. She was very active with St....

Shirley Scarff

Shirley Scarff

Jan 25, 2013

Shirley Scarff, age 78, of Belcamp, MD passed away on January 25, 2013 at her home. Born in Street, MD, she was the daughter of the late Earl McKee and Lola Virginia Hash and wife of 50 years to the late Thomas W. Scarff. A homemaker, she was a member of Emory United Methodist Church, where she was very active...

Tommy David Roberts

Tommy David Roberts

Jan 25, 2013

Tommy David Roberts, age 67, of Charlotte Hall, MD, passed away on January 25, 2013 at Charlotte Hall Veterans Home. Born in Altus, OK at Altus Army Field, he was the son of the late Redell Melvin Roberts and Clairebelle Watland Roberts Meyer and husband, for 17 years, of the late Joan May Koehler Roberts. In addition to his parents...

Juan Carvajal

Juan Carvajal

Jan 25, 2013

Juan Carvajal, age 90, of Fallston, MD passed away on January 25, 2013 at his home. Born in El Caney, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, he was the son of the late Francisco and Mercedes Hernandez Carvajal. Juan came to the U.S. in 1968 and lived in Baltimore, MD for a time where he worked for Charcoal Hearth, then moved to...

Ruth Simmons

Ruth Simmons

Jan 24, 2013

Eleanor Ruth Simmons, age 73, of Aberdeen, MD, passed away on January 24, 2013 at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, MD. Born in Joppa, MD, Ruth was the daughter of the late Frederick M. and Marie M. Beavers Edwards. She worked as an Executive Assistant for the State of Maryland for 25 years. She enjoyed spending time...

Charles Edward Bradford Sr.

Charles Edward Bradford Sr.

Jan 24, 2013

A memorial service will be held at a later date.Charles Edward Bradford Sr., age 89, of Bel Air, MD, passed away on January 24, 2013 at Forest Hill Health and Rehabilitation in Forest Hill, MD. Born in Argyle, ME, he was the son of the late Elmer and Alice Dow Bradford and husband of the late Marilyn Alice Bradford. A...

Genevieve  Bertha Thomas

Genevieve Bertha Thomas

Jan 24, 2013

Genevieve Bertha Thomas, age 82, Forest Hill, MD, passed away on January 24, 2013 at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, MD. Born in Street, MD, she was the daughter of the late Martin Luther and Annie Elizabeth Brinkley Thomas. She was born and raised on farms in both Fallston and Street and had cared for her parents until...

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