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Amos, Betty A.
Saturday, June 09, 2012
Betty Ann Click Amos, 55, of Gettysburg, PA, died Saturday, June 9, 2012 at her home after her battle with cancer.
Born on October 9, 1956 in Hanover, PA, she was the daughter of Nancy Mellema Click of Union Bridge, MD and the late Jack Click. She was the wife of Lewis M. Amos, her husband of 23 years.
She was a former press operator for Marada. She enjoyed car shows, camping, and fishing.
Surviving in addition to her mother and husband are son Lewis Amos and his companion Charity Sier of Gettysburg, PA; siblings Marie Gesinger of Sanford, NC, John Click of Union Bridge, MD, Connie Shaffer of Union Bridge, MD, Mary Bostian of Keymar, MD, and David Click of Union Bridge, MD; 4 sister-in-laws; and numerous nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends on Tuesday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. at Pritts Funeral Home and Chapel, 412 Washington Rd., Westminster, MD.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home with Hospice Chaplain John Morrill officiating. Interment will be private.
Contributions may be made to the funeral home to help defray funeral expenses.
Childress, Richard Clark
Friday, June 08, 2012
Richard Clark Childress, 78, of Westminster, died June 8, 2012 at Lookabout Manor Nursing Home.
Born February 5, 1934 in Greensboro, North Carolina, he was the son of the late Paul W. and Margaret Clark Childress. He was the husband of the late Elsie J. Jensen Childress who died on January 21, 1996, and Dorothy Rohrbaugh Zollickoffer Childress whom he married
on December 5, 1996.
He was a graduate of Greensboro High School in 1952. He was a First Class Petty Officer in the United States Navy from 1952-1956, serving on the USS Maloy, during the Korean War. He graduated from Mars Hill College in 1959 and then North Carolina State with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1961. He was an electrical engineer for Domino Sugar, retiring on February 28, 1989. He was a member of the Westminster Baptist Church. He loved to play golf, read and travel.
Surviving are children and spouses Wayne J. and Connie Childress of California, Glenn P. and Susan Childress of Georgia, and Scott and Cami Childress of Glen Burnie, 8 grandchildren and 2 great granddaughters.
The family will receive friends on Monday from 4-7 p.m. at the Pritts Funeral Home, 412 Washington Rd., Westminster and one hour prior to the service.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. at Westminster Baptist Church, 354 Crest Lane, Westminster with Pastor Larry Steen officiating. Interment will follow in Meadow Branch cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, please make contributions to Westminster Baptist Church, 354 Crest Lane, Westminster, MD 21157 or the Alzheimer's Association, 1850 York Road, Suite D, Timonium, MD 21093.
Stables, David
Thursday, June 07, 2012
David Lee Stables, 52, of Hanover, PA, died June 7, 2012 at Hanover Hospital.
Born February 1, 1960 in Havre de Grace, he was the son of Jackie Stables of Hanover, PA and Patty Quick Stables of Manchester.
He was a graduate of Susquehannock High School, Class of 1978. He was a truck driver for Hanover Foods. He was a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, and enjoyed fishing, bowling and traveling.
Surviving besides his parents are siblings Christine M. Stables and fiancee Ernest P. Smith, IV of Manchester, Michael W. Stables of Hanover, PA and girlfriend Joann Fex, and niece and nephews Zachary Stables, Brayden Smith and Madeline Smith.
The family will receive friends on Wednesday 6-8 pm. at the Pritts Funeral Home, 412 Washington Rd., Westminster.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday at 8:00 pm. at the funeral home. Interment will be in Evergreen Memorial Gardens at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, please make contributions in his name to a charity of your choice.
Brennan, William
Saturday, June 09, 2012
William Brennan, 56, of Westminster, died Saturday, June 9, 2012 at his home after his battle with cancer.
Born on June 13, 1955 in York, PA, he was the son of the late Ed and Agnes Flaherty Brennan.
He was a veteran of the United States Air Force. He worked in maintenance with the National Security Agency. He enjoyed spending time with his family, especially his great nieces and great nephews.
Surviving him are brother Daniel Brennan of Westminster; niece Kellie Howard of Westminster; nephews Chris Paul and his wife April of Littlestown, PA and Michael Cocilova of Westminster; great nieces Maya Howard and Ayanna Cocilova of Westminster and Taylor Paul of Littlestown, PA; and great nephews Brenden Paul and Ian Paul of Littlestown, PA.
The family will receive friends on Saturday, June 16, 2012 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Pritts Funeral Home and Chapel, 412 Washington Rd., Westminster.
Memorial contributions may be made in his name to the American Cancer Society, designated to Colorectal Cancer at www.cancer.org.
Dixon, Richard Nathaniel
Thursday, June 07, 2012
Richard N. Dixon was born on April 17, 1938 to Thomas A. Dixon and Mamie Dixon in Westminster, Maryland, and was the fifth of seven children. After suffering a stroke on June 5, 2012, he was called to rest on June 7, 2012 at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
In 1938 when he was born, the country was still moving through the depression era. Richard and his five brothers and sisters were raised in Carroll County, Maryland. He attended an all black Robert Moton segregated public school there from the first grade in 1944 through graduation in 1956. He and four of his brothers and sisters graduated from Robert Moton High School before integration of the schools. He attended college at a historically black college in Baltimore, Maryland, Morgan State College, now, Morgan State University.
Upon graduation from college in 1960, he entered the Army, graduating as a commissioned officer with the rank of second lieutenant and retiring with the rank of Captain after eight years of service. His Army service included a tour of duty in Vietnam followed by an honorable discharge receiving a Bronze Star Medal. While in the Army he married
his childhood sweetheart, Grayson Dorsey, and had two sons, Timothy and Richard Jr. He served as an Army officer in the Vietnam War, receiving an honorable discharge.
Returning from the war he was the first black person to work as a stock broker in the Baltimore office of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, a Fortune 500 company. He was the first black person to serve on the appointed Carroll County, Maryland school board in 1970, and was later elected by school board members to be the first black person to serve as the president of the school board, from 1975 to 1977. In 1975 during this period, he also obtained a Master’s of Business Administration from Morgan State University and also served on the Morgan faculty.
Because of Richard’s love and devotion to his high school, he founded an organization which honored Moton teachers, provided yearly class reunions, and most importantly, provided college scholarships to black Carroll County high school students. The organization was known as the Former Students of Robert Moton, for which Richard served as the president for more than thirty years.
After eight years of serving on the school board, he decided to run for elected office in Carroll County. Although he lost his first election against two incumbents in the race for a state delegate seat in 1978, he did manage to become the first black person to win a primary in the county as a Democrat. In 1982 Richard succeeded in being elected the first black delegate in Carroll County history, serving as a delegate for the county from 1982 to 1996 by winning four consecutive elections.
As a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1983 to 1996, he served on the House Appropriations Committee, the Education and Economic Development Subcommittee and the Rules and Executive Nominations Committee. He also served as Chairman of the Joint Budget and Audit Committee (1987-1994), the Joint Committee on Pensions (1986-1994) and the Capital Budget Subcommittee (1995). During his thirteen years as a State Delegate, he sponsored numerous bills to benefit Carroll County projects, including a new emergency room and expansion of Carroll County General Hospital, a new YMCA building, and numerous facilities at McDaniel College (formerly Western Maryland College), including the Hoover Library, Lewis Hall and Hill Hall.
As State Treasurer from 1996 to 2002, Richard held positions of leadership on a number of key financial planning committees, including the chairperson of the Capital Debt Affordability Committee and the Commission on State Debt. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Maryland State Retirement and Pensions System. Most notably, he sat with the Governor and the Comptroller of the State on the Board of Public Works, assisting in the supervision of substantial portions of the fiscal affairs of the State, from wetlands licenses to other construction projects. He was one of the State’s leading experts on pensions, investments and retirement systems and often spoke on those topics in national forums.
His honors and recognitions were numerous, including honorary degrees from Western Maryland College, Stevenson University (formerly Villa Julie College), Morgan State University, and Carroll County Community College. He received further recognition in having two buildings named for him, the Carroll County General Hospital dedicated the Richard N. Dixon building in 1997, and Morgan State University opened the Richard N. Dixon Science Research Center in 2003. He was a member of various organizations, including the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity (life member), and Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity (the Boule). Richard was a former Trustee of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and a former member of its Commission on Secondary Schools.
He is survived by his loving wife, Grayson of fifty-three years; two sons, Timothy and Richard Jr.; three sisters Edith Davenport, Trudy Green, and Twila Mitchell; three grandchildren, Marilyn, Richard III, and Robert; two aunts Julia Gibson and Adina Ashburn; a daughter in law, Sandra; five sisters in law, Vivian Dorsey, Mae Beard, Hazel Collins, Thelma Smith, and Bernice Young; and two brothers in law, Ivory Green and Carl Dorsey. He is also survived by a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and aunts and uncles.
Richard’s two brothers, Thomas Jr. and William, and one sister, Dorothy, preceded him in death and two sisters in laws, Rosa Lee Dixon and Sedonia Dorsey, and many close brothers in laws: George Collins, Calvin Dorsey, James Dorsey, Delmar Dorsey, Louis Beard, Gerald Davenport and George Young.
The family will receive friends on Tuesday, June 12 from 11 am until start of services at 1 pm at the Gilliam Concert Hall in the Murphy Fine Arts Center at Morgan State University, 2201 Argonne Rd., Baltimore. Officiating will be Rev. Christopher Serufusa. Interment will follow in St. Luke's United Methodist Church cemetery in Sykesville.
The family requests that contributions be made to the Mamie Dixon Scholarship at Morgan State University, 2201 Argonne Dr., Baltimore, MD 21251 or to St. Lukes United Methodist Church, 350 River Rd., Sykesville, MD 21784 or to the Former students and friends of Robert Moton, 300 South Center St., Westminster, MD 21157.
Hood Germroth, Edith Jackie
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Edith Jackie Hood Germroth, 95, of Sykesville, died Sunday, June 10, 2012 at the Carroll Hospital Center.
Born on August 9, 1916 in Virginia, she was the daughter of the late Oscar and Minnie Webb Jackson, who until their deaths, was a devoted caregiver to them. Twice married
, she was the wife of the late Crawmer Hood then to Charles Germroth.
At the age of 15, she began working in clothing manufacturing in Westminster, first at Grief Brothers, then Westminster Coat, and later moving to Hancock, MD where she retired from the London Fog, Boonsboro Plant as the Pressing Department Supervisor.
Surviving her are daughter and son-in-law Carol and Robert Baker of Sharpsburg; sons and daughters-in-law John and Mildred Hood of Stephens City, VA and Donald and Janet Hood of Sykesville; daughter-in-law Glenda Hood of Louisiana; step daughters Dianne Pryor of Meyersville and Sandra Young of Hagerstown; 11 grandchildren; 22 great grandchildren; 8 great great grandchildren; sisters-in-law Miriam Brehm of Pleasant Hill and Betty Sanders of Hanover, PA; numerous nieces and nephews; and close friends Milford and Judith Gordon of Pencil Bluff, Arkansas. She was predeceased by son Robert Hood, Sr. and was the 13th of 15 children and was the last of her immediate family.
The family will receive friends on Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. at Pritts Funeral Home and Chapel, 412 Washington Rd., Westminster.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday at 11:00 a.m. at the funeral home with Rev. Duane L. Jensen of the Hancock United Methodist Church officiating. Interment will be in Meadow Branch cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made in her name to the Hancock United Methodist Church, 170 W. Main St., Hancock, MD 21750.
Owen, Steven L.
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Steven Lee “Cadet” Owen, 62, of Finksburg, died unexpectedly on Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at his home.
Born on April 15, 1950 in Fort Meade, he was the son of the late David Lee Owen and Dorothy A. Sheeler Broadfoot.
He was a graduate of Franklin High School, class of 1968. He was a veteran of the United States Army serving from 1969 until 1975. He worked on the road crew with the Maryland State Highway Department.
He was a member of the Maryland Knights and Abate.
Surviving are one sister and brother-in-law; 1 one niece; and one nephew; aunts, uncles and cousins.
The family will receive friends on Thursday, June 14th, from 7 to 8 p.m. at Pritts Funeral Home and Chapel, 412 Washington Rd., Westminster. Please use chapel entrance.
Graveside services will be private and held at the convenience of the family.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart & Stroke Association, Memorial & Tribute Processing Center, PO Box 5216, Glen Allen, VA 23058-5216 or to the Disabled American Veterans, P.O. Box 14301, Cincinnati, OH 45250-0301.
Good, Virginia Mae
Friday, June 01, 2012
Virginia Mae Good, 84, of Westminster, died June 1, 2012 at Carroll Hospice's Dove House.
Born January 5, 1928 in Berkeley Springs, WV, she was the daughter of the late Homer and Sallie Fleece Bageant. She was the wife of Maurice E. Good whom she married
March 5, 1949.
She had been a Registered Nurse in her early years, then a Homemaker.She was a graduate of City Hospital in Martinsburg, WV, which is now a division of West Virginia University. She was a lover of all animals and enjoyed reading and flower gardens. She was a member of Grace Lutheran Church.
Surviving in addition to her husband is son and daughter-in-law Michael E. and Lisa C. Good of Westminster; sister and brother-in-law Emmajean and Frank Checchio of Trenton, MI and several nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends on Tuesday from 2-4 & 6-8 p.m. at the Pritts Funeral Home, 412 Washington Rd., Westminster.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. at Grace Lutheran Church, 21 Carroll St., Westminster with her pastor, Rev. Kevin Clementson officiating. Graveside services will be held the same day at 1:30 p.m. in Brownsville cemetery in Brownsville, MD.
In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Grace Lutheran Church, 21 Carroll St., Westminster, MD 21157 or to Carroll Hospice Dove House, 292 Stoner Ave., Westminster, MD 21157.
Donaldson, Malinda J.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Malinda Jane Donaldson, 92, of Manchester, died June 19, 2012 at Longview Nursing Home.
Born March 25, 1920 in Jonesville, Lee County, Virginia, she was the daughter of the late Daniel and Mary Margaret Ingle Fortner. She was the wife of the late James Donaldson who died in 2002.
She had worked for Joseph Bank Clothiers. She enjoyed spending time at the Senior Center, making ceramics and flower and vegetable gardening. She was a member of Hilltop Assembly of God.
Surviving are children and spouses Mary Osborne Sawicki of Woodbridge, VA, Betty Osborne Kraft and Timothy Kraft of Manchester and Billie Osborne Phillips and Frank Phillips of Upperco; daughters-in-law Carol Osborne of Upperco and Carol Sue Osborne of Westminster;15 grandchildren, 28 great grandchildren and 4 great great grandchildren.
She was predeceased by children Thomas and Donald Osborne and Christine Osborne Yarger and by sons-in-law James Sawicki and Roger Yarger. She was the last of her immediate family.
The family will receive friends on Friday from 3-5 & 7-9 p.m. at the Pritts Funeral Home and Chapel, 412 Washington Rd., Westminster.
Funeral services will be held at the funeral home on Saturday at 11 a.m. Officiating will be Pastor Brian Smith of Hilltop Assembly of God. Interment will follow in Sandy Mount cemetery.
If desired, contributions may be sent to Hilltop Assembly of God, 30 North Cranberry Rd., Westminster, MD 21157.
