obituaries

Sep 6, 2015

Shirley Lee Locklear, 74, of Marion and formerly of Baltimore, died Sunday, September 6, 2015 at her home. Born August 6, 1941, she was a daughter of the late Edith Brooks. She was a homemaker. She is survived by three children, Tony Locklear, Jr. and wife Michele of Marion, Ernest Locklear and wife Jessica of Baltimore, and Lakisha Lancaster of...

Aug 29, 2015

E. Mae Tyler Crockett, 72, of Crisfield, went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, August 29, 2015 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center. Born on Smith Island on May 17, 1943, she was a daughter of the late Lloyd S. Tyler, Jr. and Dorothy Gertrude Tyler. A graduate of Crisfield High School class of 1962, she was retired from...

Aug 28, 2015

Waverly Wilson Evans, 89, of Tylerton, Smith Island, passed away peacefully on Friday, August 28, 2015 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home in Crisfield. Born on Tylerton June 8, 1926, he was a son of the late John Wesley and Amanda Virginia Marsh Evans. He was a retired waterman, and a US Army veteran of World War II. Following his...

Aug 25, 2015

Marilyn Virginia Mister, 68, of Westover, died Tuesday, August 25, 2014 at Aurora Senior Living of Manokin in Princess Anne. Born in Baltimore on January 13, 1947, she was the daughter of the late Franklin W. and Kathleen B. Tyler Marshall. She was a homemaker and a member of Union United Methodist Church on Tylerton, Smith Island. She had a...

Aug 23, 2015

John Emory Byrd, Jr., 79, of Crisfield, died Sunday, August 23, 2015 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home. Born September 29, 1935, and raised in Crisfield, he was the son of the late John Emory Byrd, Sr. and Elestine A. Sterling Byrd. He was a graduate of Crisfield High School class of 1953. He was a machinist, working at the...

Aug 18, 2015

Charles E. "Chuck" Salvas, 50, of Westover, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his loving family on Tuesday, August 18, 2015.  With the Lord's help he fought a long and courageous battle with brain cancer.

Born in Cheverly, Maryland May 9, 1965, he was a son of Andrew Edward Salvas of Dunkirk, Maryland and the late...

Aug 9, 2015

Jackie Wayne Ford, Sr., 70, of Crisfield, died on Sunday, August 9, 2015 at Coastal Hospice at the Lake in Salisbury. Born on December 24, 1944 in Crisfield, MD he was the son of the late Oris and Wilma Webster Ford. A graduate of Crisfield High School Class of 1963, he worked 12 years as a police officer and eventually...

Jul 28, 2015

Ira Thomas "Tommy" Robertson, 84, of Crisfield passed away Monday, July 28, 2015 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home. Born in Crisfield on November 15, 1930, he was a son of the late Tom and Mary Buldger Robertson. He was a retired maintenance worker at the former Carvel Hall Cutlery, where he worked for 35 years. Tommy also was a...

Jul 17, 2015

Richard A. Puffinburger, 79, of Crisfield and formerly of Beltsville, Maryland, died Friday, July 17, 2015 at McCready Memorial Hospital. Born in Big Pool, Maryland on October 8, 1935, he was a son of the late Delbert and Evelyn Hovermale Puffinburger. His wife of 56 years, Virginia Lee Shipway Puffinburger, preceded him in death March 2, 2014. He had been...

Jul 5, 2015

Kathleen B. Marshall, 88, of Crisfield and formerly of Tylerton, MD passed away Sunday, July 5, 2015 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home. Born in Baltimore, MD on October 4, 1926, she was a daughter of the late John and Lena Marsh Tyler. Her husband, Franklin W. Marshall preceded her in death on September 27, 1979. Very active in her...

Jul 5, 2015

Lisa Ann Cullen Wheatley, 50, of Fairmount, died Sunday, July 5, 2015 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Born in Crisfield December 15, 1964, she was a daughter of the late Jacob Hoke and Ruth Ellen Sterling Cullen. A graduate of Crisfield High School class of 1982, she was an addictions counselor at the Worcester County Health Department. She...

Jul 5, 2015

Helen L. Kirkbride, 93, of Canton, Ohio, died Sunday, July 5, 2015 at Hartley Hall Nursing Home in Pocomoke City, Maryland. She had been making her home in Crisfield, Maryland for the past year. Born in Summitville, Ohio on March 5, 1922, she was a daughter of the late Ralph and Mary (Filomena) Dangelo Carlone. She graduated with honors from...

Jun 29, 2015

Roy Edward Davis, 76, of Crisfield, passed away on June 29, 2015 at Hartley Hall Nursing Home in Pocomoke City after a brief illness. Roy grew up on Bloomsbury Avenue in Havre de Grace, Maryland and graduated from Havre de Grace High School. He worked 30 years for Chrysler at the Newark, Delaware Plant retiring in 1991. He was pre...

Jun 17, 2015

Josephine Kelly Webster Holland, 87, of Wenona, died Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at Chesapeake Cottage Assisted Living in Snow Hill. Born in Wenona on May 6, 1928, she was the daughter of the late Walter D. Webster and Hattie Corbin Evans. Her husband of 70 years, Paul F. Holland, preceded her in death February 14, 2008. She worked side by...

Jun 16, 2015

Karen Lee Hosea, 61, of Crisfield, died Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center. Born in Baltimore City on July 26, 1953, she was a daughter of the late George Macneal and Elma Collars Rice. She was the step-daughter of the late Ralph Rice. She was a military wife and loved being a florist. She also loved horticulture,...

Jun 8, 2015

Mildred Ellen "Mickey" Evans, 72, of Ewell, Smith Island and formerly of Crisfield, died Monday, June 8, 2015 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Born in St. Mary's County, MD on November 6, 1942, she was a daughter of the late Edward Vaughan Dise and Margaret Madalyn Gray Dise. A graduate of Wicomico High School class of 1960, she...

Jun 6, 2015

Emma W. Daugherty, 102, of Crisfield, died Saturday, June 6, 2015 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home. Born in Deal Island on October 11, 1912, she was a daughter of the late David and Eleanor Webster Horner. According to her family Bible, her birth year is recorded as 1911, which would have actually made her 103 years of age. Her...

Jun 2, 2015

Samuel C. "Sam" Matthews, Jr., 71, of Crisfield, died Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at his home. Born in Crisfield December 30, 1943, he was a son of the late Samuel C. and Hayward Elizabeth Lewis Matthews. He was a life-long waterman and truly loved being on his boat working. He made a very big impact on the watermen's community and...

May 28, 2015

Rita Johanna Dize, 90, of Tangier Island, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, May 28, 2015 from her home. Born July 10, 1924, she was a daughter of the late Domenico and Lucretia Fasano Fanto. Her husband, Earl Franklin Dize, preceded her in death in 1991. A retired insurance claims auditor, she was a member of Swain Memorial...

May 27, 2015

Clifton Gordon "Sunshine" Taylor, Jr., 78, of Crisfield, went to be with his Lord and Savior on May 27, 2015. He spent his final moments in the arms of his loving, devoted wife. Born March 21, 1937 in Daughertytown, Crisfield, MD, he was a son of the late Clifton Gordon Taylor, Sr., and Mary Ann Wilson Taylor. Sunshine was a...