UPDATE 4/21/2023: On April 20, 2023, a 3-judge panel sitting in Upper Marlboro affirmed the 10-year sentence imposed on Joseph Martin Blankenship for the crime of second degree assault. Blankenship was convicted in 2021 by a Calvert County jury and sentenced to the maximum possible sentence by Judge Andrew S. Rappaport. A Maryland appellate...
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Joyce Ann Eiler, 75 of St. Leonard, Maryland passed away on April 20,2023 in Prince Frederick, Maryland. Joyce was born on September 5, 1947 in Prince Frederick, Maryland to the late Andrew L. and Virginia M. Roberts Beverly. Besides her parents, Joyce is preceded in death by her husband of 44 years Daniel J....
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Priscilla Madeleine Hurtt, 100, of North Beach passed away April 19, 2023. She was born September 11, 1922 in Boston, MA to William and Mary Agnes (McGowan) Coburn. Priscilla moved to Long Beach, CA when she was 10 years old. She graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach. Priscilla married Keeven Hurtt...
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Carl Edward “Eddie” Richardson, Jr., 61, of Upper Marlboro passed away April 19, 2023. He was born September 8, 1961 in Inglewood, CA to Carl Sr. and Joanna (Jean) Fleming. Eddie moved to Calvert County as a teenager and graduated from Calvert High School in 1979. He worked as a fuel delivery driver for...
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Virginia Griffith “Ginny” Schmitt, 93, of Lothian, MD passed away April 18, 2023 at her residence. She was born December 23, 1929 in Bristol, now part of Lothian, to Ella E. (Catterton) and Preston Eugene Griffith. She was raised in Bristol and graduated from Southern High School in Lothian. She was married to Benson...
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Matthew Shelton “Matt” Boothe, 52, of Owings passed away April 17, 2023, at home surrounded by family. He was born November 5, 1970, in Cheverly to Michael Gene and Kathleen Marie (Bean) Boothe. Matt grew up in Lanham and later moved to Owings and graduated from Northern High School. He married Stephanie Coontz in...
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Jineane V. Stahl, age 72, of Prince Frederick, went home to be with the Lord on April 17, 2023. Jineane attended Atholton High School and was certified by the State of Maryland as a geriatric nursing assistant. She cared for many patients at the Calvert County Nursing Center, where she served for much of...
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James Jay Adams, 67, of Lusby, MD and formerly of Philadelphia, PA passed away on April 17, 2023 at Calvert Health Medical Center. Born February 26, 1956 in Philadelphia, PA, he was the son of the late James Raymond Adams and Doris Audrey (Eisele) Adams. Jay graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1974...
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John Duane Kennedy, 75, a longtime resident of Annapolis passed away April 17, 2023. He was born April 3, 1948 in Atlanta, GA to John and Dorothy (Greenwood) Kennedy. John grew up in Wheaton and graduated from Wheaton High School in 1966. He moved to Annapolis is 1972 and lived there for 30 years....
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Kenneth Charles Widhalm, 77, of Solomons, MD and formerly of CO, passed away on April 15, 2023 at his residence. Born March 1, 1946 in Monte Vista, CO, he was the son of the late John Michael Widhalm and Iris June (Daniel) Widhalm. Kenneth served in the U.S. Navy from August 29, 1969 until his...
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Betty Eakin Stith, 97, passed away April 14, 2023, surrounded by her family. She was born January 15, 1926, in Iola, Kansas to Walter Lowell and Edith May (Robinson) Eakin. Betty was raised in Iola and graduated from Iola High School in 1943. After graduation, she moved to Washington, D.C. and worked at the...
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Richard Albert Cox, surrounded by family, departed from this life on Thursday, April 13, 2023. Richard, “Rick”, was born into a Calvert County farm family with roots going back eight generations. He loved helping on the farm and was devoted to his family. He worked long hours alongside his family as they tended crops,...
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Genevieve Moore Harper passed on April 13, 2023, eleven days after her 94th birthday. She is remembered by her five adult children and their families as a loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and by everyone she ever met as a woman who made any room more interesting and more fun for her being in it....
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James “Jim” Emory Tettimer, 66, of Port Republic, MD passed peacefully surrounded by family on April 10, 2023. James was born on September 30, 1956, to William and Doris Tettimer in Prince Frederick, MD. Living in Calvert County his whole life, one of Jim’s most treasured memories of his childhood was growing up with...
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Bob Davis’ love of life didn’t come to an end with his death. He passed away on April 9, 2023, at the age of 79 after a courageous health battle and is survived by loved ones and friends who will continue to honor his legacy by living their lives to the fullest. A Purple...
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Terry Lee Robertson was born March 1, 1961, in Buffalo, Minnesota. He grew up on dairy farms in central Minnesota. He was the oldest and the only boy of Bill and Pat Robertson’s 4 children. As a lad and young adult Terry milked cows, drove tractors, and worked as a mechanic at local shops. ...
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Madelynn Taylor Wallace passed away unexpectedly on April 16, 2023, at the age of 10. Born to John Wallace and Wendy Hurlburt on April 25, 2012, Madelynn was always happy as a baby. When she was 4, she immediately became obsessed with electronics. Some of Madelynn’s favorite activities were being on her iPhone or...
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Reverend George Albert Wilkinson, Jr, J.D., 89, of Avenue, MD passed away on April 16, 2023 at home. He was born on September 9, 1933, in Washington, D.C. to the late George Albert Wilkinson, Sr. and Lillian (Hayden) Wilkinson in Washington, D.C. He was married to his high school sweetheart, Mary Anne Reilly, for...
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Christine Marie Abresch, 56, of Charlotte Hall, MD, passed away on April 7, 2023 in Washington, DC. Chris was born on January 12, 1967 in Washington, DC, to Thomas Edward Booth and Judith Ann Karczewski. She graduated from high school and attended college. After graduation from college, she became an X-Ray Technician, having worked...
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Florence “Flo” Kolwey Jett, 78, formerly of Owings, MD, passed away on April 6, 2023 in Leonardtown, MD. Born on May 14, 1944, in Preston, Cuba, her parents were the late Herman G. Kolwey and Florence Gapp Kolwey. In 1947, the family returned to the United States. She studied nursing and earned her Master’s...
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Robert Milroy Schwier, 78, of Hughesville, MD, passed away on April 14, 2023 in Hughesville, MD. Born in Leonardtown, MD on July 13, 1944, he was the only child of the late Leroy Schwier and Mildred Bailey Schwier. After high school graduation, he attended St. Mary’s College of Maryland where he graduated and then...
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Frances Hall Jones, 72, of Mechanicsville, MD passed away peacefully on April 18, 2023, surrounded by her loving family. Frances was born along with her brother Frank, on January 27, 1951, to William Anthony (Sam) Hall and Cleo Audrice Goines in LaPlata, MD. After graduating from Frederick Douglass High School, Frances had three children:...
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Thomas Leon Tucker, Sr., 78, of Faulkner, MD, peacefully passed away after a lengthy illness on April 17, 2023, surrounded by family. On August 3, 1944, Thomas was born to Elbert and Amy (Dean) Tucker on the family farm in Bristol, MD. He married Mary Alice Baker of Baltimore, on August 6, 1966, and...
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Belinda “Boo Boo” Marie Crehan, 51, of Charlotte Hall, MD, passed away peacefully on April 19, 2023 from glioblastoma brain cancer. On September 25, 1971, Belinda was born to the late Donald Swann and Wanda Everett in Washington, DC. Belinda worked as a records technician at the Charles County Sheriff’s Office for 17 years....
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Douglas Allan Grantell, 81, of Mechanicsville, MD, passed away on April 11, 2023, in Leonardtown, MD. He was born on March 26, 1942, in Washington, DC to the late Harry Grantell and the late Elizabeth Hendricks Grantell. Doug graduated from Suitland High School followed by a lifelong career as a Sheet Metal Worker from which he retired in...
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