Richard "Dick" Crockett
May 26, 2007
RICHARD M. "DICK" CROCKETT, 91, of Crisfield, died Friday, May 25, 2007 at Manokin Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Princess Anne. Born in Crisfield on January 8, 1916, he was a son of the late John Daniel and Myrtle Elizabeth Hickman Crockett. Mr. Crockett started working on the water at the age of eight with his father who was...
Katharine "Kathy" Linton
May 15, 2007
KATHARINE SUE "KATHY" LINTON, 45, of Crisfield, died Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Born in Crisfield on February 21, 1962, she was a daughter of Ralph S. Justice, Sr. of Crisfield and the late Conchita A. "Chita" Ward Justice who died December 23, 2003. She was a Crisfield High School graduate of the class...
Lillian Evans
May 12, 2007
LILLIAN C. EVANS, 81, of Crisfield, died Saturday, May 12, 2007 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Born in Baltimore City on July 15, 1925, she was the daughter of the late Thomas and Cora Murray Bailes. Her husband, Donald C. Evans, Sr., died in September 1967. She was a homemaker, and in her later years enjoyed catering for...
Darvin Biles
May 9, 2007
DARVIN L. "SMOKEY" BILES, 70, of Crisfield and formerly of Baltimore and Berlin, New Hampshire, died Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Born in Baltimore on October 16, 1936, he was a son of the late Benjamin and Ruth Bowersox Biles. He had been making his home in Crisfield since 1986. He was a plumber...
Janice Lee Hunt
May 6, 2007
JANICE LEE HUNT, 58, of Crisfield, died Sunday, May 6, 2007 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Born February 13, 1949 in Severn, Maryland, she was a daughter of the late Lewis Henry and Betty Lee Cherry Bishop. Her husband, Robert Cecil Hunt and her brother, Steve Bishop, also preceded her in death. She was a homemaker. She is...
Eugene E. Marshall, Jr.
May 4, 2007
EUGENE E. MARSHALL, JR., 41, Ewell, Smith Island, died Friday, May 4, 2007 at McCready Memorial Hospital in Crisfield. Born in Crisfield, on July 15, 1965, he was a son of Eugene E., Sr. and Christine Marsh Marshall of Ewell. He was a waterman, working on buy boats, and most recently on a tug; and he was a member of...
Joanne Schultz
May 2, 2007
JoAnne Schultz, 62, of Delmar and formerly of Salisbury and Crisfield, died Wednesday, May 2, 2007 at her home. Born in Crisfield on September 11, 1944, she was the daughter of Edith Marshall of Delmar and formerly of Crisfield. Her first husband, "Snoogie" Revelle preceded her in death. JoAnne attended school in Crisfield through the 11th grade, and finished her...
William P. Scott, Jr.
Apr 24, 2007
WILLIAM P. "BILLY" SCOTT, JR., 51, of Fruitland, died Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Born October 22, 1955 in Crisfield, he was the only child of William P., Sr. and Ruth L. Wilson Scott. He had been a resident of Fruitland since he was a young boy. A graduate of Bennett High School, he...
Mary Jo Robin
Apr 24, 2007
MARY JO ROBIN, 68, of Crisfield, died Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at her home. Born in Crisfield on December 20, 1938, she was a daughter of the late Milford and Iantha Nelson Thornton. A graduate of Crisfield High School's class of 1956 and a United States Navy veteran, she was executive director of the Crisfield Housing Authority from which she...
John Nimmo
Apr 23, 2007
JOHN NIMMO, 66, of Westover Maryland, died Monday, April 23, 2007 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Born on April 26, 1940 in New Jersey, he was the son of the late Arnold Lockwood and the late Helen Nimmo Cole. John was a gifted artist who loved to draw architectural type drawings with his perfectly sharpened pencils. He also...
Alphonsus J. Bruey, Jr.
Apr 21, 2007
ALPHONSUS J. BRUEY, JR. age 86, a resident of Crisfield, MD for the past 5 years, died at home on Saturday, April 21, 2007. Born in Port Richmond, PA, formerly of West Oak Lane, PA and Somers Point, NJ, he was the son of the late Alphonsus J. Bruey and Mary Cassady Bruey. He was a graduate & violinist in...
Elsie Parks Ward
Apr 18, 2007
ELSIE P. WARD, 86, of Crisfield, went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at Manokin Manor Rehab and Nursing Center in Princess Anne where she had been a resident for the past seven years. Born in Crisfield on April 25, 1920, she was a daughter of the late Thomas Edward and Sally Marie Howard Parks....
William T. Eskridge, Sr.
Apr 14, 2007
WILLIAM THOMAS "CAPTAIN WILL" ESKRIDGE, dear Dad and Tangier Island's oldest resident, passed away Saturday, April 14, 2007 at his home. He was 96 years old. Born on Tangier Island, January 26, 1911, he was a son of the late Ira L. and Bertha Crockett Eskridge. His wife, Mildred Pruitt Eskridge, preceded him in death on July 22, 1976. He...
Frances Matthews
Apr 13, 2007
FRANCES M. MATTHEWS, 82, of Marion Station, died Friday, April 13, 2007 at McCready Memorial Hospital in Crisfield. She had been a resident of the Tawes Nursing Home for several months. Born in Crisfield on January 4, 1925, she was a daughter of the late Cleveland and Esther Anderson Somers. Her husband, Benson W. "Ben" Matthews died May 28, 1996....
David Preston Thomas, Sr.
Apr 11, 2007
DAVID PRESTON THOMAS, SR., 64, of Fruitland and formerly of Crisfield and Grand Rapids, Michigan, died Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Born in Crisfield on October 21, 1942, he was a son of the late Preston E. and Matilda K. McCready Thomas. A very hard worker, Mr. Thomas was a self-employed fence contractor, and...
Ada Laird
Apr 9, 2007
ADA MAE LAIRD, 82, of Crisfield, went to be with the Lord on Monday, April 9, 2007 from Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home in Crisfield where she had been a resident for several years. Born in Crisfield on June 17, 1924, she was a daughter of the late Lucious and Mamie Pestridge Lewis. She was a retired clerk, working 27...
Rev. Emerson M. Abbott
Apr 2, 2007
The Reverend Emerson M. Abbott, 80, a retired minister of Roanoke, Virginia, and formerly of Crisfield, went to be with the Lord on April 2, 2007. After a valiant battle for several years, Reverend Abbott, a great preacher, pastor, and Christian Leader with the Church of God, succumbed to congestive heart and renal failure. Emerson Marcellus Abbott was born December...
Tommy Adams
Mar 31, 2007
THOMAS LEE "TOMMY" ADAMS, 83, of Crisfield, went to be with the Lord on Saturday, March 31, 2007 from Coastal Hospice at the Lake in Salisbury. Born in Crisfield on September 8, 1923, he was a son of the late John T. and Lottie Green Adams. He was a retired mechanic for Rubberset Corporation in Crisfield. Prior, he was a...
Nellie Thomas
Mar 31, 2007
NELLIE THOMAS, 100, of Crisfield, died Saturday, March 31, 2007 at Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home in Crisfield. Born in Snow Hill, she was a daughter of the late Clarence and Margaret Hill Johnson. Her first husband, Samuel Washington Elliott, and her second husband, Harvey Thomas, preceded her in death. She was a homemaker and a retired seafood worker. A...
Beatrice Mulgrew
Mar 29, 2007
BEATRICE V. MULGREW, 95, of Crisfield and formerly of Florida and New Jersey, died Thursday, March 29, 2007 at McCready Memorial Hopsital in Crisfield. Born in Palmyra, New Jersey on June 8, 1911, she was a daughter of the late John and Margaret Gladney Horton. Her first husband, William Little, and her second husband, Hugh T. Mulgrew, preceded her in...
