Ruth M. Watson
Mar 27, 2014
Ruth Matilda Watson, 81, of Crisfield, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, March 27, 2014 from Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home in Crisfield. Born in Crisfield on January 4, 1933, she was a daughter of the late Preston Irvin and Matilda Kathleen McCready Thomas. Her husband, John Lewis Watson, preceded her in death on December 19, 1997. A...
David Wayne Cullen
Mar 24, 2014
David Wayne Cullen, 65, and his wife, Laura Lee Menzel Cullen, 61, of Delmar, Maryland, passed away Monday, March 24, 2014 following a fire at their residence. David was born in Crisfield on December 22, 1948. He was a son of the late Joseph Bell Cullen and Jewell Ennis Cullen. He was a self-employed carpenter who was a history buff...
Laura Lee Menzel Cullen
Mar 24, 2014
David Wayne Cullen, 65, and his wife, Laura Lee Menzel Cullen, 61, of Delmar, Maryland, passed away Monday, March 24, 2014 following a fire at their residence. David was born in Crisfield on December 22, 1948. He was a son of the late Joseph Bell Cullen and Jewell Ennis Cullen. He was a self-employed carpenter who was a history buff...
Rudy Adonnell Thomas, Jr.
Mar 17, 2014
Rudy Adonnell Thomas, Jr., 57, of Tangier Island, Virginia, died Monday, March 17, 2014 at his home. Born on Tangier Island, November 15, 1956, he was a son of Barbara Pruitt Thomas of Crisfield and the late Rudy Adonnell Thomas who died April 21, 1991. Rudy was the 4th generation owner and captain of Tangier Mail & Freight, running mail...
John Woodland Haxter
Mar 15, 2014
John Woodland Haxter, 90, of Crisfield, died Saturday, March 15, 2014 at McCready Memorial Hospital. Born in Crisfield on August 20, 1923, he was a son of the late Peter and Charlotte Anne Tawes Haxter. A graduate of Crisfield High School class of 1941, he was retired from the US Navy serving 20 years. Following his retirement from the US...
Tristan Alexander Hitchcock-Haifley
Mar 8, 2014
Tristan Alexander Hitchcock-Haifley was born to David and Rebecca Haifley on Thursday, March 6, 2014 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. He passed away on Saturday, March 8, 2014 at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Along with his parents, David Haifley and Rebecca Hitchcock Haifley, he is survived by his grandparents, Dennis and Frances Hitchcock and Donna...
Eva L. Burton
Mar 6, 2014
Eva L. Burton, 95, of Crisfield, died Thursday, March 6, 2014 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home in Crisfield. Born in Crisfield on September 27, 1918, she was a daughter of the late George F. "Duffy" and Hattie A. Daugherty Lawson. Her husband, Marion L. Burton, died September 23, 1992. A homemaker, Mrs. Burton was a graduate of Crisfield High...
Lorraine Patricia Charnock
Mar 6, 2014
Lorraine Patricia Charnock, 63, of Tangier, Virginia, died Thursday, March 6, 2014 at the home of her daughter, Trish Warfield, in Crisfield. Born in Philadelphia, PA on February 3, 1951, she was a daughter of the late Norman and Elizabeth Epp Morris. She had been making her home on Tangier for the past four years and formerly lived in Fredericksburg,...
M. Linda Mccarty
Mar 6, 2014
M. Linda McCarty, 70, of Crisfield, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, March 6, 2014 at her home. Born in Baltimore, she was a daughter of the late Vernon E. and Gertrude Lilly Sterling Nelson. Linda worked for many years at Linton's Seafood and the former Windsor's Seafood. She was a member of the Crisfield Church of God,...
Virginia L. Puffinburger
Mar 2, 2014
Virginia Lee Puffinburger, 78, of Annemessex Ridge near Crisfield, passed away at home on her birthday, Sunday, March 2, 2014. Born in Greenridge, MD she was the daughter of the late John Merele Shipway and Edith Bucey Shipway. She retired after 22 years as a school teacher in Laurel in Prince Georges County, MD. She was a member of the...
John Lankford Taylor
Feb 28, 2014
John Lankford Taylor, infant son of Michael and Kelly Parks Taylor of Crisfield, was born into the arms of angels on Friday, February 28, 2014 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center. Along with his parents, he is survived by his grandparents, Susan and Ted Smith of Crisfield and Gordon and Cindy Taylor of Marion Station; and many other relatives. He was...
Margaret Coons Ardis
Feb 25, 2014
Margaret Coons Ardis, 93, of Rehobeth, passed away Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at her home. Born July 7, 1920 on the Pocomoke River at her grandfather Henderson's home place, she was a daughter of the late Rev. Andrew Jackson Coons and Margaret Virginia Henderson Coons McCready. Margaret was a member of Rehobeth Baptist Church, and a member of the former...
Marjorie Wells Bradshaw
Feb 19, 2014
Marjorie Wells Bradshaw, 91, of Westover, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, February 19, 2014 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home in Crisfield. Born on Tangier Island, Virginia December 29, 1922, she was a daughter of the late Alfred Ayers and Hazel Laura Parks Crockett. Her husband, Hezekiah Bradshaw, Jr., died January 2, 1980. A graduate of Tangier...
Phill Rayfield
Feb 9, 2014
Phill Rayfield, 66, of Crisfield, passed away Sunday, February 9, 2014 at Mercy Hospital in Baltimore. Born in Crisfield on October 21, 1947, he was a son of the late Charles and Eloise Ruark Rayfield. He graduated valedictorian of Crisfield High School's class of 1965 and lettered in all athletics. Phill graduated from Towson University and obtained his teaching and...
Carolyn Gunter
Feb 4, 2014
Carolyn Gunter, 90, of Crisfield, died Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home. Born in Crisfield March 23, 1923, she was a daughter of the late William C. and Helen Daugherty Landon. Her husband of 55 years, Alphia K. "Al" Gunter, preceded her in death September 14, 2001. A 1940 graduate of Crisfield High School, Carolyn was...
Anne Matarazzo
Feb 3, 2014
Anne Matarazzo, 74, of Crisfield and formerly of East Moriches, New York, passed away on the morning of February 3, 2014 at her home. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Anne relocated to Crisfield in 1985 with her husband and children and went back to school to obtain her degree in nursing. She worked as a registered nurse at...
John Wesley "End Of Trail" Howard
Jan 27, 2014
John Wesley "End Of Trail" Howard, 69, of Crisfield, died Monday, January 27, 2014 at Coastal Hospice at the Lake in Salisbury. Born in Crisfield on October 20, 1944, he was a son of the late Harold M. and Lutisha Marshall Howard. Mr. Howard was formerly employed by the Crisfield Police Department as a dispatcher and parking enforcement personnel. Most...
A. Lynn Johnson Windsor
Jan 14, 2014
Alida "Lynn" Windsor, 49, of Salisbury and formerly of Crisfield, passed away on Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. She was born in Crisfield on July 12, 1964, and was the daughter of the late Manson Riggin Johnson, Sr. and Hazel Mason Johnson. A graduate of Crisfield High School Class of 1982, she attended UMES...
Ret. Master Sgt. James B. "Jimmie" Hall
Jan 12, 2014
James Benson "Jimmie" Hall, 77, of Crisfield, died peacefully surrounded by his family, January 12, 2014 at Coastal Hospice at the Lake. Born on November 30, 1936, he was the son of the late Benson and Hazel Howard Hall of Crisfield. Jimmie graduated from Crisfield High School in 1955 and joined the United States Air Force. He retired as Master...
Antonia Walter
Jan 6, 2014
Antonia Walter, 93, of Cleveland, Ohio and formerly of Marion Station, passed away on Monday, January 6, 2014 at Orchards of Westlake in Westlake, Ohio. Born on June 5, 1920 in Russia, she was the daughter of the late Alex Tereschenko and Maria Morosava. Her husband, Jakob Walter, Sr., died July 20, 1988. Surviving are her children, Valerie Neumann (William),...
