Obituaries

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

Lucille Dean Madry

Lucille Dean Madry

Mar 20, 2005

LUCILLE DEAN MADRY, of Churchville, died March 20, 2005 in the comfort of her son’s home. She was 78 years old. Lucille was born in Baltimore, MD to the late Cornelius Dean and Mattie Dean Winder, who later married Percy Winder of Long Green . She was one of eight children: Edna Ward of Baltimore, Cornelius Dean (deceased), William Archie...

Virginia S. Brewer

Virginia S. Brewer

Mar 19, 2005

VIRGINIA E. BREWER, age 84, of Jarrettsville, died at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center on March 19, 2005. Born in Baltimore, she was the daughter of the late Rubert Allen and Mary Elizabeth Rhodes Sullivan, and the wife of the late Robert Lee Brewer. A resident of Harford County since 1981, she had worked at C&P Telephone Company for 40 years...

Lorraine M. Keller

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Gertrude Viola Peters

Gertrude Viola Peters

Mar 11, 2005

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Fred Douglas Mongan, Sr

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

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

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

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...

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