Frederick N. Rasmussen

Norwood G. Griffin, a World War II veteran whom later opened a Liberty Road service station, has died at 92.

Robert K. "Rob" Ray, a general contractor and an avid Orioles and Ravens fan, has died of COVID-19 at 52.

Mary T. Dempsey, who worked in medical billing, has died at 92.

Dr. Dianne Ganz Scheper, a scholar and author who was the former program coordinator and a teacher in the Johns Hopkins University’s Master of Liberal Arts program, died Feb. 19 of cancer at her Bolton Hill home. She was 82.

Guy T. “Trev” Warfield III, former president of the Warfield Dorsey Co., a Towson insurance brokerage, died Feb. 22. The former longtime Riderwood resident was 91.

William A. “Bill” Romberger Jr., a retired insurance adjuster who earlier had owned the Baltimore International Warehouse, died Feb. 7 of pancreatic cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Hunt Valley resident was 78.

Eric K. Gratz, former director of admissions and chief social worker in the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital's Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, has died at 87.

Evelyn W. McIntosh, whose career as a Baltimore public school educator spanned more than three decades, has died at 86.

Harriet S. FauntLeRoy, a former kindergarten educator, farmer and world traveler, has died at 88.

The path that would eventually take Brown to Broadway and acclaim, began at the old Frederick Douglass High School on Dolphin Street, where she was a student of the legendary music teacher W. Llewellyn Wilson, who also had instructed Cab Calloway.

James K. Lightner, a career professional photographer who in 1938 took pictures of the last reunion of Union and Confederate veterans, died Feb. 7 of pneumonia at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. The longtime Cockeysville resident was 93.

Edward R. Daughaday, a retired Baltimore County police officer and World War II Navy veteran, died Feb. 2 at Gilchrist Center Towson of complications from a stroke. The Mays Chapel North resident was 96.

Edith C. Gibson, the first Black woman to be named supervisor of art for secondary city public schools, has died at 88.

George S. Wills, the irrepressibly gregarious founder of Wills & Associates Public Relations who was a collector of friends and an accomplished watercolorist, dies at 84.

Robert L. “Bob” Lamborn, who headed McDonogh School for two decades during which time the Owings Mills school ended its military program, was integrated and went coed, died Feb. 11 in his sleep. The former Ellicott City resident was 102.

Reginald J. Daniels II, a videographer and cinematographer who was the founder of Piper Productions, which produced award-winning commercials, music videos and feature films, died Jan. 6 of cancer in Ormond Beach, Florida. The former Columbia resident was 75.

Katherine Abt, a retired city social worker and former editor and author, has died at 88.

Margaret C. Carty, executive director of the Maryland Library Association, who also served as a Navy officer, has died at 82.

Barbara E. Vogel, a foster mother and role model to 30 children, dies

Austin H. George, former head of T. Rowe Price's Equity Trading Department, has died at 87.

Jean M. Dahl, longtime administrative assistant to former Chief Judge Martin P. Welch of the Baltimore City Circuit Court, died Jan. 25 of cardiac arrest at Northwest Hospital in Randallstown. The Owings Mills resident who formerly lived in Catonsville, was 70.

John Washington, a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. crane operator who was an avid fisherman, died Feb. 3 of pneumonia at Clem & Doll, a Windsor Mill assisted living facility. He was 98.

Edward S. Calwell, former president of the Westminster City Council, has died at 75.

Maria Chang Yu, a retired office manager and active parishioner of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, has died at 95.

Ronald R. "Ronnie" Potter, former Memorial Stadium and later Camden Yards groundskeeper, has died at 55.

Nancy J. Welsh, a Harford County interior designer and artist, has died at 89.

Frederick N. Griffith, a social worker who established the Maryland Eye Bank, has died at 88.

Peter Wight, a retired investment banker who liked driving convertibles year-round, died Saturday of complications from prostate cancer at Tall Oak, his Cockeysville home. He was 85.

Norman w. Lauenstein, a former Baltimore County councilman and a longtime Essex lawyer, has died from COVID-19 at 93.

Bettyjean C. Murphy, a pioneering African American developer, historic preservationist and community activist, has did at 79.

Dr. John G. Bartlett, an internationally recognized pioneer in the study and treatment of HIV/AIDS patients who co-founded the country’s second HIV/AIDS clinic at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, died Jan 19 from pneumonia.

Robert F. “Robby” Boyd, who spent more than 40 years in finance and investment management, died Jan. 14 from complications of vascular dementia at the Blakehurst Retirement Community in Towson.

J. Edward Crooks Jr., a retired Baltimore County Fire Department official and volunteer firefighter, died Thursday from cancer at his Upperco home. He was 80.

R. Taylor "Teto" McLean, a retired real estate lawyer, has died at 92.

Charles E. Geyer, a World War II veteran who became superintendent of buildings for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, has died of COVID-19 at 96.

Celia V. Carr, a career educator who was the first Black department chair at Western High School and later became a Methodist lay minister, died Jan. 14 of a cardiac arrest at her longtime Severna Park home. She was 82.

The venerable North Howard Street theatrical costumer A.T. Jones & Sons Inc. that has kept Baltimoreans and environs dressed as ghouls, ghosts and in other guises for more than 150 years, now faces an uncertain future since the death of its owner, George F. Goebel, 88, who was also a well-known magician and illusionist, earlier this month.

William E. “Pete” Bailey died Jan. 10 of undetermined causes at his Sandtown-Winchester home at the age of 74.

Louise K. Emmert, a longtime Baltimore County Public Schools educator who became active at the Bykota Senior Center after the death of her husband, died Jan. 4 from pulmonary hypertension at her home in the Breezewick neighborhood of Towson. She was 72.

The Very Rev. Van H. Gardner, dean of the Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation for more than two decades, has died at 74.

Edward J. "Joe" Haviland, a wood sculptor known for large rough-hewn pieces he carved with a chainsaw from logs he found in the woods, has died at 68.

Nell W. Stanley, who taught at several area private girls schools, has died at 77.

Dr. Robert B. Welch, an internationally renowned ophthalmologist who had been co-director of the Wilmer Retina Service at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, died of pneumonia Jan. 5. The Annapolis native and former longtime Roland Park resident was 93.

Robert E. “Bob” Almon, a retired FBI special agent who later established the law enforcement program at Wor-Wic Community College, died Jan. 3 in his sleep at his Salisbury home. The former Parkville-Carney resident was 95.

Barbara A. O'Malley, mother of the former governor of Maryland and aide to Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, has died at 93.

Guinevere L. Redd, who worked for nearly 40 years with the Redd Funeral Services, has died at 87.

Thomas J. Tallent, a retired Sykesville postmaster who enjoyed singing songs from the 1940s and 1950s, has died at 91.

Virginia P. "Ginny" Siems, a homemaker active at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, has died at 92.

Andrew “Andy” Bauer, who worked for nearly five decades at Lockheed Martin and its predecessor companies and during World War II served as a machinist aboard a dock landing craft in the Pacific theater, died Dec. 28 of heart disease. He was 98.

It would be nearly three years before Lee McCardell reunited with his wife and three daughters. In 1942, a homesick McCardell, like other Americans engaged in the war effort, was away from home for the first time at Christmas.