Mina Rae Laird
Aug 11, 2014
Mina Rae Laird, 83, of Tylerton, Smith Island, died Monday, August 11, 2014 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home in Crisfield. Born February 2, 1931 on Tylerton, she was a daughter of the late Todd and Margaret Evans Marshall. Her husband, Ronald Reed Laird, died January 19, 1980. A homemaker, she was a member of Union United Methodist Church where...
Pamela D. Walker
Aug 8, 2014
Pamela Doreen Walker, 59, of Crisfield and formerly of Glen Burnie and Baltimore City, died Friday, August 8, 2014 at McCready Memorial Hospital in Crisfield. Born in Baltimore City on February 26, 1955, she was a daughter of the late Robert Walker and Patricia Fisher Walker of Westminster. She was a patient escort at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore working...
Mildred H. "Petie" Dykes
Aug 2, 2014
Mildred H. Dykes, 88, of Crisfield, died on Saturday, August 2, 2014 at Coastal Hospice at the Lake in Salisbury. Born in Kingston March 2, 1926, she was the daughter of the late William Craft Hayman and Mabel Derby Hayman. Her husband, William E. Dykes, Jr. died July 25, 2002. She was a graduate of Salisbury State College (Salisbury University)...
Linda Jean Clodfelter
Jul 29, 2014
Linda Jean Clodfelter, 60, of Crisfield and formerly of Georgia and Baltimore, died Tuesday, July 29, 2014 at Hartley Hall Nursing Home in Pocomoke City. Born in Baltimore on February 28, 1954, she was the daughter of the late Jesse P. and Norma Elizabeth Kerr Clodfelter. Most recently she worked for ten years at Lowes. She had been making her...
Shoko Ueda Elder
Jul 28, 2014
Shoko Ueda Elder, 79, of Virginia Beach, passed away Monday, July 28, 2014 at the home of her daughter in Crisfield, Maryland. Born January 1, 1935 in Osaka, Japan, she was the daughter of the late Jun-ichi Ueda and Funako Shimamura. Her husband, Allen T. Elder, Jr. died November 1, 1969. Mrs. Elder was a retired baker at Morrison's cafeteria....
Dennis Lee Hitchcock
Jul 25, 2014
Dennis Lee Hitchcock, 64, of Salisbury, MD, died Friday, July 25, 2014 at McCready Memorial Hospital in Crisfield. Born in Mt. Pleasant, PA on May 5, 1950, he was a son of the late Eber H. and Dulcie Wilkinson Hitchcock. He was a pharmacist for Rite Aid in Laurel, DE. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was...
Gary Gene Guy
Jul 20, 2014
Gary Gene Guy, 44, of Ewell, Smith Island, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, July 20, 2014. Born on Ewell, on February 18, 1970, he was the son of Beverly Tyler Guy of Ewell and the late Gene Guy who died November 25, 2000. He was a waterman and a graduate of Crisfield High School class of 1988. He was an...
Sarah E. Morgan
Jul 19, 2014
Sarah E. Morgan, 85, of Crisfield, died Saturday July 19, 2014 at Aurora Senior Living of Manokin in Princess Anne, MD. Born in Virginia Beach, VA, on March 15, 1929, she was a daughter of the late Upshur and Alta Somers Adams. Her husband, Ernest Morgan, preceded her in death on November 7, 1993. A homemaker, she was a member...
Arnold Louis "Whitey" Schmidt
Jul 18, 2014
Arnold Louis "Whitey" Schmidt – noted cookbook author – has passed away. He went peacefully at his home art studio in Crisfield, Md on Friday, July 18, 2014. He was 75 years old. Known as the Chesapeake Bay's Blue Crab Guru, Schmidt authored 11 popular books on the region's cooking, culture and people. Schmidt's first book, The Official Crab Eater's...
Doris E. Good
Jul 18, 2014
Doris E. Good, 87, of Crisfield, died Friday, July 18, 2014 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home in Crisfield. Born in Enola, Pennsylvania on November 8, 1926, she was the daughter of the late Edouard and Alta Seitz Heckert. She had been making her home in Crisfield since 1977. She was a 1944 graduate of Enola High School and attended...
Alexis Jeanette Hawke
Jun 26, 2014
Alexis Jeanette Hawke, newborn daughter of Lauren and Zachary Hawke, of Princess Anne, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, June 26, 2014 at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis. Along with her parents she is survived by her maternal grandparents, Kristin and William Michel; paternal grandparents, Joy and Gene Hawke; maternal great-grandparents, Robert and Barbara McCready, and Florence...
Lucille Evans
Jun 21, 2014
Lucille T. Evans, 89, of Crisfield, died on Saturday, June 21, 2014 at the Alice Byrd Nursing Home. Born on Rhodes Point on July 9, 1924 she was the daughter of the late Earl Tyler and Ollie Evans Tyler. She was a cafeteria worker for many years at the Crisfield High School. Her husband, Roland H. Evans, died on October...
Earl W. "Buster" Nelson, Jr.
Jun 16, 2014
Earl W. "Buster" Nelson, Jr., 91, of Crisfield, died Monday, June 16, 2014 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Born in Crisfield July 26, 1922, he was a son of the late Earl W. Nelson, Sr. and Virginia Nelson Sterling. A US Army Air Force veteran of World War II, he was a Bridge Tender of the Hanover Street...
Earl L. Bryley
Jun 10, 2014
Earl L. Bryley, 84, of Crisfield and formerly of Baltimore, died Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at McCready Memorial Hospital. Born in Baltimore on February 4, 1930, he was a son of the late Joseph and Mary Bryley. He had been making his home in Crisfield for the past 22 years. A US Army Korean War veteran, he was a truck...
Dr. Lloyd H. Stevens
Jun 3, 2014
Dr. Lloyd H. Stevens, 93, of Marion Station, died Tuesday, June 3, 2014 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center. Born in Frostburg, Maryland on March 2, 1921, he was the son of the late Lloyd L. and Helen Boettner Stevens. His beloved wife of 63 years, Elizabeth "Bette" Gilbert Stevens died March 5, 2012. A graduate of Pennsylvania College of Optometry,...
Wilma F. Fries
Jun 2, 2014
Wilma Fay Fries, 62, of Crisfield and formerly of Fredericksburg, VA, died Monday, June 2, 2014 at Coastal Hospice at the Lake in Salisbury. Born in Valls Creek, West Virginia on March 3, 1952, she was a daughter of the late Gratton and Eula Carter Sparks. She had been making her home in Crisfield for the past several years. She...
James Walter Gosnell
May 29, 2014
James Walter Gosnell, 78, of Crisfield and formerly of Baltimore, died Thursday, May 29, 2014 at his home. Born in Baltimore on December 15, 1935, he was a son of the late George and Viola Harwood Gosnell. His wife, Wallis Patricia "Pat" Gosnell, died April 20, 2014. He was a construction worker and a US Army veteran. He is survived...
Clarence J. Abbott, Jr.
May 28, 2014
Clarence J. Abbott, Jr., 91, of Crisfield and formerly of Bridgeville, Delaware, died Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home. Born in Cambridge on December 31, 1922, he was a son of the late Clarence J. and Lola Hoffman Abbott. A member of the Crisfield Church of God, he enjoyed collecting and sending religious informational materials to...
Eugene Timothy "Timmy" Sterling
May 23, 2014
Eugene Timothy "Timmy" Sterling, 60, of Crisfield, died Friday, May 23, 2014 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Born in Crisfield April 8, 1954, he was a son of the late Eugene O. "Tunie" Sterling who died in 1981, and Patsy Somers Sterling who died in 2010. Timmy became disabled at the age of 16 following a diving accident...
Kevin Watson Melson, Sr.
May 17, 2014
Kevin Watson Melson, Sr., 49, of Stockton, passed away Saturday, May 17, 2014 surrounded by his loving family at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury after fighting a long hard battle with cancer. Born March 14, 1965 in Salisbury, he was the son of Nancy Watson Melson of Pocomoke City and the late Scott S. Melson. Kevin was a locksmith...
