Charles Hall Simpson
Sep 8, 2014
Charles Hall Simpson, 78, of Crisfield, passed away peacefully on Monday, September 8, 2014 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home. He was born August 31, 1936 to Benjamin Mitchell Simpson II and Marshall Hall Simpson of Miquon, PA. He was predeceased by his wife of 50 years, Earlene "Early" Sulin Simpson, who died October 6, 2013. He is survived by...
Haynie Thomas Marshall
Sep 4, 2014
Haynie Thomas Marshall, 86, of Tylerton, Smith Island, died Thursday, September 4, 2014 at McCready Memorial Hospital in Crisfield. Born April 20, 1928 on Tylerton, he was a son of the late Marvin and Thelma Smith Marshall. He was a waterman and a member of Union United Methodist Church and the National Rifle Association. He built model boats for many...
Tommy W. Hinman, Sr.
Sep 4, 2014
Tommy Wilson Hinman, Sr., 70, of Crisfield, died Thursday, September 4, 2014 at McCready Memorial Hospital. Born in Crisfield November 7, 1943, he was a son of the late Charles L. and Joanna Wilson Hinman. His wife, Marynell Elliott Hinman, died March 20, 1999. He worked for many years at Somerset County Roads, and later Maintenance, retiring in 2009. He...
Joseph J. Garpstas
Aug 28, 2014
Joseph J. Garpstas, 84, of Crisfield and formerly of Glen Burnie, died Thursday, August 28, 2014 at Coastal Hospice at the Lake in Salisbury. Born in Baltimore on April 9, 1930, he was the son of the late Joseph C. and Margaret Bathgate Garpstas. He had been making his home in Crisfield for the past 27 years. He was a...
Glen Walker "Fergy" Ferguson
Aug 28, 2014
Glen Walker "Fergy" Ferguson, 91, of Crisfield, died Thursday, August 28, 2014 in Pocomoke City. Born in Rochester, New York on March 6, 1923, he was a son of the late Fred and Margaret Falls Stuart McCall Ferguson. He had been making his home in Crisfield for the past 20 years. Prior, he lived in Lititz, Pennsylvania for 24 years,...
Betty L. Tyler
Aug 12, 2014
Betty L. Tyler, 86, of Crisfield, died Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at her home. Born in Edgecomb County, North Carolina on June 20, 1928, she was a daughter of the late Harvey G. and Annie Cox Hathaway. Her husband of 59 years, Carl L. "Kie" Tyler, preceded her in death on July 22, 2002. A homemaker, she retired from Rubberset...
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...
