Friday, May 11, 2012
Rose Gauza passed away this week at 52.
Rosemary Ann Gauza had a passion for teaching, and a passion for people. The Riderwood Elementary School fourth-grade teacher had a particular knack for reaching out to children, said principal Kathy DeHart. "They were not just names in a grade book, they were not just faces sitting in front of a desk," DeHart said. "She knew about their families, about their pets, about their passions. She would get to know them and she would give each of them a nickname." Ms. Gauza, 52, a Perry Hall resident, died Thursday after falling ill earlier in the week. Ms. Gauza missed last school year because of an illness. Ms. Gauza, who began her teaching career 30 years ago in Baltimore City, had taught at Riderwood since 1995. She began as a special …
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Francis N. Craig previously lived in White Marsh and attended St. John's Episcopal Church in Kingsville.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Services for 68-year-old Beverly Moore, who was killed while crossing Seven Courts Drive, will be held Thursday evening and Friday morning in Parkville.
Funeral services will be held Thursday evening and Friday morning for the victim of a hit-and-run incident in Perry Hall on Jan. 22. Shortly after 7 p.m. on Sunday, Beverly Moore was struck and killed by a vehicle while attempting to cross Seven Courts Drive, between Lincolnshire Court and Neves Court, police said. The driver fled the scene. Moore, 68, was a resident of Bourbon Court, less than a quarter of a mile from the incident. Funeral services will be held in her honor at Evans Funeral Chapel and Cremation Services at 8800 Harford Rd. in Parkville, 6-9 p.m. on Thursday and at 11 a.m. on Friday. Evans Funeral Chapel and Cremation Services released the following statement from their website: Beverly Wible Moore (September 28, 1943 - …
Friday, September 23, 2011
Lauren Nicole Turner was killed in a car accident.
Lauren Nicole Turner, a Morgan State University sophomore and member of the Maryland Army National Guard, turned 22 on Sept. 23, 2010. But what started as a shopping trip that Thursday morning at the White Marsh IKEA ended in a fatal car accident. On the one-year anniversary of her death, friends and former classmates of Turner have planned a memorial service at the Morgan State University Chapel at 8 p.m., Friday. Turner died after her blue Volkswagen Beetle collided with a light pole in the White Marsh Mall Sears parking lot, police said. Chavonda Andrews, a childhood friend of Turner and Morgan State junior, has been helping to arrange a rememberance for Turner. "I just wanted to have something positive in honor of her," Andrews said. "…
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Jerry Leiber, 78, died in Los Angeles on Monday.
Three thousand miles from Baltimore’s Riggs and McKean avenues, where it all started, Jerry Leiber died of heart failure Monday in Los Angeles, at 78. Mark this as the day the music died. The national newspaper obituaries got the headline stuff right: how the young Leiber teamed with Mike Stoller to become songwriting godfathers of early rock 'n' roll, and how their music brought the rhythms and comic street smarts of black musicians like the Coasters and the Drifters to the first generation of young white rock 'n' roll fans. They wrote “Hound Dog” for Big Mama Thornton, and Elvis Presley turned it into one of rock’s early anthems. They wrote “Yakety Yak” and “Charlie Brown” for the Coasters, and produced “There Goes My Baby” and “Spanish …
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
The 24-year-old Perry Hall High School graduate died in a car accident on the Baltimore Beltway.
His friends called him "Roger That," a phrase that means someone hears or understands you. It was a fitting nickname for 24-year-old Roger Stump Jr., who died on June 3. The resident of Sparks Glencoe, who was raised in Perry Hall, was the victim of a fatal car accident along the ramp to northbound Dulaney Valley Road in Towson. "You could call him in the middle of the night and he would answer ... he would pick you up from anywhere," said Danielle Wiley, Stump's girlfriend of six months. "He was a great guy." Another friend, Jessica Duke, described him as the life of the party. "He was a lot of fun," Duke said. But while he enjoyed spending time with his friends, Stump was also known as a hard worker and devoted father to his 4-year-old…
Monday, May 30, 2011
Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens adds 10 veterans to the Circle of the Immortals.
About 3,500 veterans are buried at the Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, and 10 more have been added over the last year. On Memorial Day, their graves were decorated with American flags and flowers. Their families were honored with service awards. Decorated military officials—including Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown—spoke kind words about them. A crowd of hundreds gathered at the Timonium cemetery Monday to remember the nine men who died in the line of duty while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. The nine men honored on Monday were: Air Force Msgt. Tara R. Brown, of Bowie, MD, was killed on April 27, 2011. She will be honored at the 2012 Memorial Day ceremony. The men and woman of the …
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
From the State House in Annapolis to the Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, from director John Waters to former County Executive Jim Smith, Patch covered the former governor's final tour of Maryland.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
The 19-year-old Perry Hall High School graduate was killed March 30 in a car accident near CCBC Essex.
A memorial service will be held for Alfredas Josep Ortman at the Perry Hall Methodist Church on Monday, April 4 at 6 p.m. Community members are encouraged to attend. A.J. Ortman spent most of last Wednesday morning in classes at the Community College of Baltimore County Essex. But shortly after 11:30 a.m., the 19-year-old was pronounced dead near the intersection of Franklin Square Drive and Castle Creek Circle following a car accident. Ortman's car had crossed the center line and collided with a minivan. Excessive speed may have contributed to the crash, Baltimore County police said. The driver of the minivan, a 53-year-old woman, survived with non-life threatening injuries. Ortman's mother, Karen Ortman, said her son, who she adopted 15 …
Bill Howard
10:48 pm on Saturday, May 12, 2012
My sympathy and prayers to her family, friends and students. May God embrace her this day. more ›