Allen "Froggy" Somers
Sep 16, 2012
Allen W. "Froggy" Somers, 94, of Crisfield, died Sunday, September 16, 2012 at his home. Born in Crisfield on September 6, 1918, he was a son of the late Allen W. and Kate E. Nelson Somers. His wife, Mary Virginia Riggin Somers, preceded him in death in 1966. He was a retired waterman, working on buy boats and crabbing. He...
Robert L. Landon, Jr.
Sep 14, 2012
Robert Lee Landon, Jr., 59, of Snow Hill and formerly of North Carolina and Crisfield, died on Friday, September 14, 2012 at Coastal Hospice at the Lake in Salisbury. Born in Crisfield on August 27, 1953, he was the son of the late Robert Lee Landon and Betty J. Roach Landon. He worked in the maintenance department of the Quality...
Richard A. "Dickie" Mister
Sep 12, 2012
Richard Arland "Dickie" Mister, 70, of Crisfield, died Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home in Crisfield. Born in Crisfield, he was a son of the late James and Florance Landon Mister. Over the years he worked at the former Spires Service Station, the former Holsum Bakery, Rubberset Corp. and retired from Carvel Hall Cutlery. He loved...
Mary Colleen Hill
Sep 10, 2012
Mary Colleen Hill, 67, of Crisfield, died Monday, September 10, 2012 at her home. Born in Baltimore on June 12, 1945, she was a daughter of the late Napoleon and Ruth Smith Young. She had been making her home in Crisfield for the past 18 years. A homemaker, she enjoyed crocheting, crossword puzzles and fishing. She is survived by her...
William Smith Dize, Sr.
Sep 8, 2012
William S. Dize, Sr., 64, of Ewell, Smith Island, affectionately known as "Bill", "Bill Dinks", "Dinkum", and "Uncle Bill", untied his lines for the last time and cruised to Heaven to be with Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior on Saturday, September 8, 2012 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home in Crisfield. Born and raised on Tangier Island, he was...
Ed "Jake" Merson
Sep 6, 2012
Ed "Jake" Merson, 73, of Bishopville and formerly of Crisfield, died Thursday, September 6, 2012 at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin. Born in Baltimore City on March 1, 1939, he was the son of the late Hilton and Marie Catherine Jacobson. He was an entrepreneur and a US Army veteran. He enjoyed Harley Davidson motorcycles, music-especially playing guitar and harmonica,...
H. Jane Landon
Aug 26, 2012
Helen Jane Landon, 83, of Salisbury and formerly of Crisfield and Tangier Island, and after a life of service, died peacefully on Sunday, August 26, 2012 at the Village at Harbor Point in Salisbury. She was born October 18, 1928 on Tangier land. Her father, Bradley Landon, a waterman, died on August 14, 1994. Her mother, Lorraine Crockett Landon, died...
John O. Mills, Iii
Aug 25, 2012
JOHN O. MILLS, III, 52, of Crisfield, died Saturday, August 25, 2012 at Aurora Senior Living in Princess Anne. Born in Crisfield on September 25, 1959, he was a son of the late John O. Mills, Jr. and Mary Styles Mills. He was a member of the Crisfield Church of God. He enjoyed watching TV, was an avid basketball fan,...
Cathryne M. Lankford
Aug 20, 2012
Cathryne M. Lankford, 86, of Marion Station, died Monday, August 20, 2012 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home following a brief illness. Born in Crisfield, she was the daughter of the late John H. and Addie Mae Mills McGrath. She was a member of Quindocqua United Methodist Church. In her earlier married life, she worked at Parson's Store in Marion....
Granville B. "Pete" Howard
Aug 19, 2012
G. B. "Pete" Howard, 74, of Westover, died Sunday, August 19, 2012 at his home. Born in Pocomoke City on October 30, 1937, he was a son of the late Granville and Pauline Colona Howard. He was a veteran of the US Army 82nd Airborne Division and was a life-long poultry farmer. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, but most of all...
James Wesley Wheeler
Aug 12, 2012
James Wesley Wheeler, 86, of Crisfield and formerly of Queen Annes County, died Sunday, August 12, 2012 at his home. Born in Baltimore, he was a son of the late Benjamin and Christina Luh Wheeler. He had been making his home in Crisfield for the past 13 ½ years. He was a retired postal worker and a United States Navy...
F. Myrna Evans
Aug 8, 2012
Flora Myrna Evans, 78, of Crisfield, passed away on Wednesday, August 8, 2012 at the Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Born in Crisfield, she was the daughter of the late Willard E. Landon and Alva Wilson Landon. She retired in 1992 as a telephone operator with Verizon. She was a member of the Mariners United Methodist Church in Crisfield....
Mary L. Hastings
Jul 31, 2012
Mary L. Hastings, 79, of Crisfield, died Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at her home. Born in Crisfield May 29, 1933, she was a daughter of the late Grayden and Dorothy M. Purcell Wilson. Her husband, Thomas Jerry Hastings, preceded her in death June 26, 2004. She was a retired Certified Nursing Assistant at Tawes Nursing Home and Hartley Hall Nursing...
Aaron Stewart Culbertson
Jul 29, 2012
Aaron Stewart Culbertson, 42, of Crisfield, passed away Sunday, July 29, 2012 at McCready Memorial Hospital in Crisfield. Born in Crisfield October 10, 1969, he was a son of Lewis Morris Culbertson, Jr. and Patricia Crockett Culbertson of Crisfield. He was a truck driver for Tidewater Express and was a member of the Crisfield Church of God. Affectionately known by...
Leslie "Sue" Lochridge Olszack
Jul 25, 2012
Leslie "Sue" Lochridge Olszack, beloved mother, grandmother, sister, and friend, died on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at her home in Crisfield, Maryland. Born in Evanston, IL in 1950, Sue was a daughter of the late Willard Fiske Lochridge III and Patricia Daugherty Lochridge. She was raised in Scarsdale, NY, and formerly lived in St. Augustine and Miami, Florida. Sue will...
Savannah Pauline Riggin And Ava Grace Riggin
Jul 25, 2012
Savannah Pauline Riggin and Ava Grace Riggin, twin daughters of Paige Swift and Jake Riggin of Crisfield, passed through Heavens beautiful gates and were welcomed as two of God's precious angels on Wednesday, July 25, 2012. Along with their parents, Savannah Pauline and Ava Grace are survived by their grandparents, Heather and Darrick Duncan of Crisfield, Rusty Riggin/Melody Morgan of...
Nancy N. Tawes
Jul 12, 2012
NANCY NUTTLE TAWES, 83, of Crisfield, died at home on Thursday, July 12, 2012 following a long term illness. Born in Baltimore on February 23, 1929, she was the daughter of the late Harold Creston and Florence Funk Nuttle. A 1946 graduate of Western High School in Baltimore, and a 1950 graduate of Washington College, , she was a school...
Colleen Vaughn Sterling
Jul 8, 2012
Colleen Vaughn Sterling, 85, of Salisbury, died Sunday, July 8, 2012 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Born in Crisfield on May 29, 1927, she was a daughter of the late Vaughn and Emma Landon Sterling. A graduate of Crisfield High School, she was a retired LPN working at McCready Memorial Hospital in Crisfield and the former Springhill Nursing...
Michael Timothy Sharpe
Jul 2, 2012
Michael Timothy Sharpe, 59, of Crisfield, passed away Monday, July 2, 2012 at McCready Memorial Hospital. Born on August 4, 1952 in Columbia, Pennsylvania, he was a son of the late Lt. Col. George D. Sharpe, Sr. DPM and Marguerite (Brock) Sharpe. Michael was a graduate of William Tennet High School in Warminster, Pennsylvania. In 1969 he enlisted in the...
Rev. R. Dewey Crockett
Jul 2, 2012
Ralph Dewey Crockett, 64, of Tangier, died Monday, July 2, 2012 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Born on Tangier July 16, 1947, he was a son of the late Merrill Ray and Ruth Parks Crockett. Dewey, as he was affectionately known, was a 1965 graduate of Tangier High School. He attended Ferrum College and the University of Virginia...
