Obituaries

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...

Mar 19, 2004

ANDREW CAMILLE PIERNË, age 83, of Fallston, died at his home on March 19, 2004. Born in New York, New York, he was the son of the late Camille Charles and Teresa DeBarbieri Piernë. A graduate of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1941, he worked for Glen L. Martin Company, then Edgewood Arsenal, and then...

Mar 18, 2004

EARL B. YOUNG, retired teamster 557, the founder and president of Joppatowne Powder Burners Gun Club, custodian of First Presbyterian Church of Bel Air, lifetime member of the National Rifle Association, died March 18, 2004 at his home in Joppa. He was 76. Born on May 16, 1927 in Baltimore, he was the son of the late Edward and Bertha...

Mar 16, 2004

JOSEPH SZYMANIK, 83, of Bel Air died at Gilchrist Center, Towson on March 16, 2004. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of the late Luckas and Catherine Wiecorek Szymanik. In 1978, after 20 years of service, he retired from Aberdeen Proving Ground where he worked as a wood model maker for the ballistic research labs on post. Mr. Syzmanik...

Mar 14, 2004

SHARON LOU ARNOLD, age 62, of Bel Air, died at Harford Memorial Hospital, Havre de Grace, Maryland on March 14, 2004. Born in Utica, New York, she had worked as a seamstress at Glen Eagles. She was an avid bowler and Bingo player. She also enjoyed camping.Mrs. Arnold is survived by her husband of 12 years, Teddy D. Arnold; one...

Mar 13, 2004

MARY LOUISE PASSALACQUA, age 65, of Bel Air, died in Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium on March 13, 2004. Born in Baltimore, she was the daughter of the late Agostino Vincenzo and Louise Carraro Passalacqua. She had retired after 25 years from Hutzler’s Department Store where she worked as a gift wrapper. She had also worked at Wendy’s in Bel...

Mar 13, 2004

VICTOR “VIC” L. YONCE, age 91, of Churchville, MD died at the Smith Home in Edgewood, MD on March 13, 2004. Born in Flatridge, Virginia, he was the son of the late Stephen Thomas and Lura Ann Noonkaster Yonce, and the husband of the late Hassie Lee Parks Yonce. He worked as a dairy farmer. He came to Maryland in...

Mar 12, 2004

PETRA MARIA ROBOSSON, age 60, of Abingdon, Maryland died in Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, Bel Air, Maryland on March 12, 2004. Born in Bamburg, Germany, she was the daughter of the late Frantz and Lisalotta Langer, and the wife of the late James Wilson Robosson. She worked as a sales associate at Ames Department Store. She had lived in Essex...

Mar 12, 2004

DAVE L. COSTANZA, age 71, of Ocean City, MD, formerly Edgewood, MD, died in Johns Hopkins Hospital on March 12, 2004. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of the late Anthony Peter and Jeanette Frattantono Costanza. He retired after 30 years of service for ARMCO Steel where he worked as a metallurgist in stainless steel production. He was a...

Mar 10, 2004

MILDRED IDA TAYLOR, age 80, of Bel Air, died in Upper Chesapeake Medical Center on March 10, 2004. Born in Finksburg, Maryland, she was the daughter of the late Archie Leo and Florence Gertrude Yakel Taylor. She had retired after 46 years of service as a billing clerk at Locke Insulator. She was a member of Bel Air United Methodist...

Mar 9, 2004

EDWARD A. SHATTUCK, age 79, died at his home in Bel Air, Maryland on March 9, 2004. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, he was the son of the late Arthur Hayden and Marybelle Catto Shattuck. When he graduated from high school he went to a trade school and studied pattern making. He used this skill in his avocation in his wood...