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Doris Faye Balderson
May 20, 2012
DORIS FAYE BALDERSON, 74, of Crisfield, died Sunday, May 20, 2012 at McCready Memorial Hospital in Crisfield. Born in Marion Station on June 7, 1937, she was a daughter of the late Orland "Ike" Marshall and Margaret Ward Morrison. A graduate of Crisfield High School class of 1955, she was a machine operator at the former Carvel Hall Cutlery in...
Carl P. Johnson
May 20, 2012
Carl Phillip Johnson, 96, of Crisfield, died Sunday, May 20, 2012 at McCready Memorial Hospital in Crisfield. Born in Westover on November 3, 1915, he was a son of the late Frank Dale and Mollie Ennis Johnson. He was a farmer and was retired from the former Mrs. Paul's Kitchens. He was a devoted member of Faith Fellowship Assembly of...
Nancy Lee Riggin
May 16, 2012
Nancy Lee Riggin, 63, of Ocean View, DE and formerly of Westover, died Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at her home in Ocean View. Born in Crisfield on February 27, 1949, she was a daughter of the late Roy Riggin, Jr. and Gloria Ryan Copper. She had been making her home in Delaware for the past eight years. She was self-employed....
Jeanne D. Mason
May 15, 2012
Jeanne D. Mason, 87, of Crisfield, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury surrounded by her loving family. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 14, 1924, she was a daughter of the late Harry W. and Elsie Taylor Luckenbach. Her husband, Wilson V. "Pappy" Mason, Sr., preceded her in...
George William Swift
May 14, 2012
George William Swift, 80, of Crisfield, died Monday, May 14, 2012 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home. Born in Crisfield on February 25, 1932, he was a son of the late Robert and Vernetta Cox Swift. He retired from Somerset County Roads after 33 years. He also served two years in the Army National Guard Company L, 115th Infantry, of...
Mary Elizabeth "Mary Liz" Suarez
May 10, 2012
Mary Elizabeth Suarez, 92, of Crisfield, MD, daughter of the late Horace (Ned) Wilson and Daisy Sterling Wilson and wife of the late Raymond Suarez, passed away on Thursday, May 10, 2012 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home in Crisfield. Known as "Mary Liz," she is survived by a son, Raymond E. Suarez, and his wife, Martha Johnston, both of...
Iris Marie Bundick
May 10, 2012
Iris Marie Bundick, 83, of Marion Station, died Thursday, May 10, 2012 at her home. Born in Somerset County on May 26, 1928, she was the daughter of the late William Frank and Lillian Priscilla Lawson Muir. A homemaker, she loved collecting dolls and teddy bears and enjoyed going to air shows. She was a devoted mother and loved her...
Ethel "Babe" Collins Sanders Sweep
May 9, 2012
Ethel "Babe" Collins Sanders Sweep, 73, of Crisfield, Maryland and formerly of Beckley, West Virginia, passed away Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at her residence following a long illness. Born November 24, 1939 in Keith, WV, she was the daughter of the late Bert and Afton Broom Collins. Babe was a graduate of Stoco High School, and worked there as the...
Betty I. Parks
Apr 25, 2012
Betty Inez Parks, 77, of Tangier Island, died Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at her home. Born on April 9, 1935 in Washington DC, and raised in Baltimore, she was a daughter of the late James A. and Lillian Inez Williams Bradshaw. A homemaker, she devoted her life to her family. She enjoyed reading, watching and shopping on QVC, Dr. Pepper,...
Georgianna Smith
Apr 16, 2012
Georgianna Smith, 94, of Crisfield, died Monday, April 16, 2012 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home in Crisfield. Born in Crisfield September 15, 1917, she was a daughter of the late William and Georgia Ann Lawson Maddox. Her husband, Ewell Etheridge Smith, preceded her in death January 6, 1979. She was a homemaker and a graduate of Crisfield High School....
Michael Shane Somers
Apr 14, 2012
Michael Shane Somers, 35, of Marion Station, died Saturday, April 14, 2012 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Princess Anne. Born in Crisfield April 10, 1977, he was the son of Cindy Somers Jones of Marion Station, and the late Michael Leonard Somers who died in 2001. He was a construction worker. Michael Shane loved to spend time...
Glenwood Evans
Apr 12, 2012
Glenwood Evans, 77, of Laurel, DE, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at his home surrounded by his loving family. Born on Ewell, Smith Island on July 4, 1934, he was a son of the late Raymond B. Evans and Annie Diehl Evans. Glen graduated from Crisfield High School class of 1952, and went on...
Anna "June" Butler Evans
Apr 4, 2012
Anna "June" Evans, 77, of Crisfield, died Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Born in Crisfield June 3, 1934, she was a daughter of the late Clifton H. Butler, Sr. and Anna Harrison Butler. Her first husband, John H. Anderson, died August 29, 1962, and her second husband, Roy Woodland Evans, died March 8, 1998....
Gladys Powell Butler
Apr 2, 2012
Gladys Powell Butler, 93, of Marion Station, was called home to her Lord on Monday, April 2, 2012 following an extended illness. Born July 28, 1918, she was a daughter of the late Lorenzo and Cephronia Esther Bailey Powell. Her husband, Earl Butler, preceded her in death in 1968. A graduate of Marion High School, she was a farmer and...
Patty Ann Hill Albert
Mar 25, 2012
Patricia Ann "Patty" Hill Albert, 47, of Rehobeth, died Sunday, March 25, 2012 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Born in Crisfield March 17, 1965, she was a daughter of Mitchell Ann Johnson Hill of Crisfield and the late Clarence Donald Hill who died in 1992. A graduate of Crisfield High School class of 1984, she was a seafood...
Jack Clenton Bollinger
Mar 24, 2012
Jack Clenton Bollinger, 80, of Hearts Ease near Crisfield and formerly of New Jersey and Cleveland, Ohio, died on Saturday, March 24, 2012 at the Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home in Crisfield. Born in West Virginia he was the son of the late Leslie Bollinger and Ineva Mae Wilson Bollinger. Jack was a retired outside electrical lineman and an Army...
Marchan R. Ball
Mar 18, 2012
Marchan R. Ball, 61, of Salisbury, died Sunday, March 18, 2012 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Born in Easton August 15, 1950, and raised in Federalsburg, he was the son of the late William Chandler and Marion Elizabeth Kitselman Ball. He was a graduate of North Dorchester High School class of 1968, and obtained his BA degree in...
Nancy Mcclenahan Vessey
Mar 17, 2012
Nancy McClenahan Vessey, 82, of Rehobeth, died Saturday, March 17, 2012 at her home. Born in Brooklyn, New York February 6, 1930, and raised in Crisfield, she was the daughter of the late Charles and Dorothy Poleyette McClenahan. Her husband of 59 years, William Gordon "Bill" Vessey, died July 29, 2010. The owner of Vessey Orchards, she was a graduate...
Ruth Ann Rettig
Mar 13, 2012
Ruth Ann Rettig, 78, of Crisfield, died Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home in Crisfield. Born in Crisfield, she was a daughter of the late Cleve and Esther Anderson Somers. She was a retired LPN, working at McCready Hospital for 30 years, Eastern Correctional Institution for 18 years, and later at Snow Hill Nursing Home. She...
Ben Franklin, Iii
Mar 10, 2012
Ben Franklin, III, 55, of Crisfield, died Saturday, March 10, 2012 at McCready Memorial Hospital in Crisfield. Born in Crisfield on April 10, 1956, he was a son of Fay Milbourne Franklin of Crisfield and the late William Benjamin "Ben" Franklin, Jr. who died September 11, 1985. A retired correctional officer at Eastern Correctional Institution, he was a 1974 graduate...
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