Obituaries

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

Fred Vincent Gump, Jr

Fred Vincent Gump, Jr

Dec 23, 2002

FRED VINCENT GUMP, JR. age 56, of Edgewood, died at his home on December 23, 2002. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Sarah Catherine Cole Gump of Baltimore and the late Fred Vincent Gump, Sr. A resident of Harford County for 30 years, he was the director of Mother Goose Shoe Corp. and the owner and operator of...

Ruby Lee Mccrickard

Ruby Lee Mccrickard

Dec 23, 2002

RUBY LEE McCRICKARD, age 90, of Bel Air, died at her residence on December 22, 2002. Born in Tennessee, she was the daughter of the late Meredith and Elizabeth Adaline Ray Moore, and the wife of the late Edward Ward McCrickard. She had retired from her job as a seamstress for Misty Harbor. She moved to Maryland in 1963 and...

Maude Mildred Easterday

Maude Mildred Easterday

Dec 22, 2002

MAUDE MILDRED EASTERDAY, age 79, formerly from Knoxville, died at her daughter’s home in Bel Air on December 22, 2002. Born on March 28, 1923 in Dandridge, Tennessee, and raised in Piedmont, Tennessee, she was the daughter of the late Marion and Iva Heck, and the wife of the late Ben H. Easterday, Sr. She was a member of Union...

Ivah Rose Greene

Ivah Rose Greene

Dec 22, 2002

IVAH GREENE, age 71, of Fallston, died at her home on December 21, 2002. Born in Stoney Fork, North Carolina, she was the daughter of Della Rose Younce Greene of Bel Air and the late Berl David Greene. A homemaker, she was a member of Oak Grove Baptist Church since 1964. In addition to her mother, Mrs. Greene is survived...

Ann Katherine Miller

Ann Katherine Miller

Dec 21, 2002

ANN MILLER, age 81, of Bel Air, died at her home on December 21, 2002. Born in Saginaw, Michigan, she was the daughter of the late Phillip and Valta Myers Raymond, and the wife of the late Charles F. Miller. A creative and artistic person, she worked as a commercial artist. Her wisdom and insight into the human spirit was...

Henry Engel, Jr.

Henry Engel, Jr.

Dec 20, 2002

HENRY ENGEL, the first Public Defender in the State of Maryland in 1966, age 71, of Bel Air, died in Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, Bel Air, Maryland on December 20, 2002. Born in Staten Island, New York, he was the son of the late Henry Charles, Sr. and Molly Brown Engel. An attorney, with 3 years of service as a...

Egon Marte

Egon Marte

Dec 20, 2002

EGON MARTÉ, M.D., age 71, of New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, died at Good Samaritan Hospital, Baltimore, on December 20, 2002. Born in Bregenz, Austria, he was the son of the late Karl Marte, M.D. and the late Maria Fink Marte. In his homeland he was the first to graduate Subauspicies rei publicae and finished medical school earning straight A’s. He immigrated...

Francis Thomas Mann

Francis Thomas Mann

Dec 19, 2002

FRANCIS THOMAS MANN, age 85, of Havre de Grace, died at Hart Heritage, Street, Maryland, on December 19, 2002. Born in Bismarck, North Dakota, he was the son of the late Thomas and Mabel Metz Mann, and the husband of the late Katherine Carr Mann. A resident of Havre de Grace for 40 years, he had retired from his job...

Louis Albert Hickman

Louis Albert Hickman

Dec 19, 2002

Louis Albert Hickman Sr., of Bel Air, Maryland, departed his life from Upper Chesapeake Medical Center on December 14, 2002. Born on September 14, 1924 in West Point VA, but reared by his mother in Richmond VA, he was the son of the late Lillian Powell Hickman and George Hickman. He was 78. He received his early education in Richmond...

Hilbert (Steve) Stephens

Hilbert (Steve) Stephens

Dec 15, 2002

HILBERT (STEVE) STEPHENS, 85, of Bel Air died at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center on December 15, 2002. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of the late Eugene Enoch and Bertha Jones Stephens. A resident of Harford County for 13 years, he worked at Baltimore Gas and Electric for 43 years where he was a gas manufacturing supervisor. He was...

Helen M. Archer

Helen M. Archer

Dec 13, 2002

HELEN M. ARCHER, age 101, of Bel Air, died in Mariner Health of Bel Air on December 13, 2002. Born in Wheel, Maryland, she was the daughter of the late Albert Stanley and Bessie Swartz Magness. A resident of Harford County for approximately 40 years, she started out in the restaurant business and at one time owned and managed five...

Fay Cora Patterson

Fay Cora Patterson

Dec 12, 2002

FAY CORA PATTERSON, age 93, formerly of Dundalk, MD, died at Mariner Health of Bel Air on December 12, 2002. Born in East Huntingdon, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of the late George Alfred and Lydia Emma Bowers Tressler, and the wife of the late Sylvester Patterson. She was an LPN and worked at Church Home and Hospital...

James Ralph Kelly, Jr

James Ralph Kelly, Jr

Dec 12, 2002

On December 12, 2002, James R. Kelly Jr., a retired Health Care Administrator with the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) died after a long battle with throat cancer at the Casey House Hospice in Rockville, Maryland. The Takoma Park resident was 68 years old. He was the son of the late James R. Kelly Sr. and Rose Mary...

Betty Jean Whitaker

Betty Jean Whitaker

Dec 11, 2002

BETTY JEAN WHITAKER, age 65, of Joppa, died in Upper Chesapeake Medical Center on December 11, 2002. Born in Pennington Gap, Virginia, she was the daughter of Helen Hopkins Herrin of Joppatowne and the late Paschal Emerson Herrin. A Harford County resident for 39 years, she was a member of Towne Baptist Church in Joppa. In addition to her mother,...

Eleanor Estelle Heiderman

Eleanor Estelle Heiderman

Dec 11, 2002

ELEANOR ESTELLE HEIDERMAN, 74, of Forest Hill, died at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, on December 11, 2002. Born in Baltimore, she was the son of the late Arthur Edward and Eleanor Viola Kantzas Forste. A resident of Harford County for one and a half years, she formerly resided in Lutherville for 38 years. She worked at 3900 N Charles St...

Terry Rhudy

Terry Rhudy

Dec 11, 2002

TERRY RHUDY, age 63, of Darlington, died at his residence on December 11, 2002. Born in North East, Maryland, he was the son of the late Robert Cecil Saunders Rhudy and Evelyn Daphne Porter Rhudy. He was the owner and operator of the Conowingo Bait Company in Darlington, MD for 21 years. He enjoyed playing pool from his teen years...

Toubakhanoom Naderi

Toubakhanoom Naderi

Dec 10, 2002

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William S. Viands

William S. Viands

Dec 9, 2002

WILLIAM S. VIANDS, age 65, of Edgewood, died in Atlantic City Medical Center on December 9, 2002. Born in Hagerstown, he was the son of the late Grady Bruce Viands and the late Estelle E. Knox Wood. He had retired after 28 years of service with the Baltimore County Police Department where he worked as a homicide detective for 15...

Alice S. Reed

Alice S. Reed

Dec 9, 2002

ALICE S. REED, age 99, of Bel Air, died in Quail Run Assisted Living Center, Bel Air on December 9, 2002. Born in Churchville, she was the daughter of the late Asel Tollinger and Elizabeth Fredricker Herman Starr, and the wife of the late Harless Menifee Reed. Born and raised in Harford County her whole life, she had been an...

Charles A. Eckloff, Sr.

Charles A. Eckloff, Sr.

Dec 9, 2002

CHARLES A. ECKLOFF, SR., 63, of Bel Air died at his home on December 9, 2002. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of the late Millard and Laura Barret Eckloff. A Harford County resident for six years, he worked for Larry Hilte Construction for 35 years where he was a supervisor. He attended St. Margaret Catholic Church and was...