Kendall “Ken” Hazard Ward, 75 of La Plata, Maryland died December 31, 2016 at Charles Regional Medical Center in La Plata. Ken was a retired Computer Specialist with NOAA (U.S. Government) and a Veteran of the United States Army, having served during the Vietnam era. He was a member of First Baptist Church of...
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Allan Matthew Hopkins, 52, of Waldorf, MD passed away on January 2, 2017 at University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center, La Plata, MD. Allan was born on January 10, 1964 in Reno, Nevada to Alice Frances and the late Allan Wilfred Hopkins. Allan was an Information Analyst for the Internal Revenue Service. He...
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Nicholas Scott “Nick” Petrillo, age 44 of Waldorf, Maryland died January 2, 2017 suddenly at his residence. Nick was a Senior Solutions Architect with Cyber Data assigned to the Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, Maryland. He was a member of New Life Church in La Plata. In his high school years, he was...
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Mark Alan Slattery “Slatts”, 53, of California, MD passed away suddenly on December 27, 2016 in St. Paul, MN. Born on March 19, 1963 in Wilmington, DE, he was the son of Mary Elizabeth Slattery of Rehoboth Beach, DE., and the late Robert E. Slattery. Mark was the husband of Cynthia Carpenter whom he...
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James “Cowboy” William Vendelboe, 78, of Waldorf, MD passed away on January 2, 2017 at Charlotte Hall Veterans Home in Charlotte Hall MD. James was born in St. Joseph, MO on June 4, 1938 to the late William Carl Vendelboe and the late Addie Mae Fisher. James was a member of VFW, American Legion...
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George Leroy DeMarr, Sr., a well-known farmer and a wounded combat veteran of the World War II Normandy invasion, died on January 1, 2017, at University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center in La Plata. He was 94. He was born April 16, 1922 in Brandywine, Maryland as the second of six children of...
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Robert Gordon fisher, Sr., 75 of Mechanicsville, MD passed away on January 1, 2017 at his residence in Mechanicsville, MD. Robert was born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland on September 2, 1941. Robert was the son of the late Harold Sylvester Fisher and the late Florence Hood Fisher. Robert enjoyed spending time at the...
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John “Weasel” Wayne Kolbe, 66 of Mechanicsville, MD passed away on December 31, 2016 at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital in Leonardtown, MD. John was born in Chevy Chase, MD on September 17, 1950 to the late John Weller Kolbe, Jr. and the late Mary Opal Windsor Kolbe. He enjoyed fishing, golfing, watching NASCAR, The...
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Charles Edward “Charlie” Doering, 80, of Leonardtown, MD passed away December 31, 2016 at Hospice House of St. Mary’s in Callaway, MD, surrounded by his loving family. He was born on November 29, 1936 in Detroit, MI to the late Harold and Margaret Smith Doering. Charlie married Catherine Anne “Kitty” Wilkinson on October 11,...
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Florence Marie Collier, 102, of Leonardtown, MD died December 30, 2016 at her home. Born August 9, 1914 in Weehawken, NJ, she was the daughter of the late Richard Francis and Florence E. Mooney Collier. Miss Collier attended normal school in Jersey City, NJ and in 1938 she was appointed to teach as an...
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Carroll Cecil Woods, 77, of Avenue, Maryland passed away December 30, 2016 at home surrounded by her loving family. Born January 4, 1939 in Washington, DC, she was the daughter of the late Arthur Beall Cecil, Sr and Mary Carroll Cecil. In addition to her parents, her beloved brother Arthur Beall Cecil, Jr. predeceased...
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Helga Christel Ursula Wiepke (nee Wurch), 78, Mechanicsville, Maryland, USA, passed away January 1, 2017, at the Hospice House of St. Mary’s, Callaway, Maryland, after a long battle with multiple Myeloma and complications thereof. She was born to Friedrich and Frieda Wurch on January 10, 1938 near Holkewiese, Pomerania (Prussia, Germany). As a child...
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Josephine Eva Rhode, age 96 of Lusby, MD, adventured peacefully on her final journey on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2016, at Calvert Memorial Hospital in Prince Frederick, MD. Born March 10, 1920, in Highland Park, MI, the daughter of the late Mary & George Rahall. Jo is survived by her son Ronald Rhode...
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Retired Air Force Lt. Colonel George C. Turpyn, 93, died in his sleep at Asbury Retirement Community on January 3, 2017. Col Turpyn was born in Rochester, New York, February 22, 1923. He graduated from John Marshall High School in 1939, worked for a land surveyor, IBM and Eastman Kodak Company until entering the...
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The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) has conferred accreditation on the St. Charles Children’s Learning Center at the College of Southern Maryland, located at the La Plata Campus. Accreditation indicates that the center meets MSDE standards of excellence. “Being an accredited center is public recognition that we have voluntarily achieved standards above and...
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The J.M. Smucker Company today announced a limited voluntary recall on certain lots of 9LivesTM, EverPetTM, and Special KittyTM canned cat food due to possible low levels of thiamine (Vitamin B1). The issue was discovered by the Quality Assurance team during review of production records at the manufacturing facility. No illnesses related to this...
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On Tuesday, January 3, 2017, at approximately 3:50 p.m., the driver of a Toyota FJ Cruiser was traveling south on Copley Avenue north of Acadia Road in Waldorf. For unknown reasons, the driver lost control of his vehicle, crossed the double yellow lines, struck a mailbox, crossed back over the roadway and struck an...
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As a border slave state that remained loyal to the Union, the State of Maryland played a key role in the American Civil War, one of our nation’s most important and bloody conflicts. The Old Line State saw many of the same political and social conflicts over slavery, secession and states’ rights that played...
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Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Sexual Assault Unit announced an arrest has been made in a First Degree Sexual Abuse of a Patient offense which occurred in the 1300 block of Southern Avenue, Southeast on Sunday, December 4, 2016, at approximately 11:00 a.m. An adult female victim was sexually assaulted by an employee...
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John Thomas Kennedy III, 86, of Tall Timbers, MD, passed away December 30, 2016 at his daughter’s home in Burke, VA, surrounded by his loving family. He was born in Washington, D.C. on December 22, 1930 to the late John Thomas Kennedy Jr. and Rachel Elizabeth Fry Kennedy. John proudly served 4 years in...
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On December 28, 2016, at Georgetown University Hospital, in the early hours of the morning, God knelt beside Eldridge at an altar in prayer, wiped his tears and took away his despair. God gently whispered, “Come follow me, my child, high places we will go.” Eldridge Eugene Shade, affectionately known as AL, was born...
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Monica Lynnet Smith, 33, of Great Mills, MD passed away on December 28, 2016 at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital in Leonardtown, MD, surrounded by her loving family. Born October 1, 1983 in Baltimore, MD, she is the daughter of Evelyn Rassa Summerlin of Great Mills, MD and the late Matthew Smith. Monica earned her...
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William Arthur Folger, Sr. (Bill), 82, of Mechanicsville, MD passed away on December 28, 2016 at Charlotte Hall Veteran’s Home, Charlotte Hall, MD. Born on June 20, 1934 in Washington, DC, Bill was the only child of the late Stanley Arthur Folger and Jewel Bryan Folger. He joined the U.S. Marine Corp on July...
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Joyce Anne King Raffo, 69, of North Myrtle Beach, SC passed away on December 27, 2016 in Myrtle Beach, SC. Born on January 14, 1947 in Washington, DC, she was the daughter of the late Vivian Hazel Bagwell Zimmerman and the late Percy Elwood King. Joyce was born and raised in Washington, DC and...
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Jessalyn “Lynn” Bellamy Swann, 59, of Leonardtown, MD passed away on December 27, 2016 at University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical, LaPlata, MD. Born on July 26, 1957 in Kingsport, Tennessee, she was the daughter of the late Jesse Bellamy and the late Jewell Webb Bellamy. Prior to her retirement, Lynn worked for the...
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