Frederick N. Rasmussen

Alan C. Wilder, a janitor and avid sports fan, has died at age 59.

On the day that history was being made with Dr. Martin Luther King's March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 28, 1963, 11-month-old Sharon Langley was making history of her own at Baltimore's Gwynn Oak Park, as the first African-American to ride one of its attractions.

Louise H. Hole, retired principal of Ridge Ruxton School who considered working with special needs students a highlight of her life, died of smoke inhalation from a Dec. 29 fire that destroyed her Catonsville home. She was 93.

Ronald E. Harman, a retired commercial real estate broker who earlier had worked for the Rouse Co., died Thursday. He was 84.

Beatrice B. Levine, a retired Baltimore County educator who became a popular figure at Stebbins Anderson, has died at age 101.

Thomas W. Winstead, a plastic packaging expert who established two companies and worked with Head Skis, has died at age 101.

Russell H. Ward, a veteran NBC radio broadcaster whose career spanned more than three decades, has died at age 93.

Kathryn A. Brooks, a retired educator and volunteer, has died at age 72.

James C. Morant, a retired senior adviser for the EPA from Baltimore who had a second career as an actor, has died at age 71.

Santo J."Joe" Salvaggio, a retired community college educator, has died at age 92.

Vernon L. “Lanny” Harchenhorn, a Carroll County attorney and former member of the House of Delegates, died Jan. 9 of complications from a December automobile accident.

Alma T. “Bunny” Martien, a retired businesswoman and community activist, died Saturday of complications from pneumonia at her home in Lutherville. The former Orchards resident was 93.

Jack A. Wennerstrom, a noted Randallstown author and naturalist, has died at age 71.

Peggy L. Frankel, a World War II war bride who later became a homemaker, has died at age 97.

Noel J. Dillon, a retired Maersk Line executive who was an active member of Towson presbyterian Church, has died at age 87.

Shirley F. Silver, who during her eight-decade career as a Baltimore-area piano teacher taught hundreds of children and adults, died Tuesday of heart failure at her Cheswolde home. She was 98.

Kenneth A. Kirchhofer, a retired private school educator and volunteer in the Baltimore area, died Sunday of complications from Alzheimer’s disease at Union Memorial Hospital.

Kathryn C. Almon, a longtime volunteer and avid gardener, died Sunday of heart failure at her home in Salisbury. The former Parkville resident was 95.

Terry L. McPherson, a technology training director active in youth basketball programs, has died at age 61.

Retired Baltimore County Circuit Judge Patrick Cavanaugh has died at age 76.

H. Webster Hurst Jr., a World War II veteran and owner and president of the Meyer Seed Co., died Sunday in Annapolis.

George W. Gephart, former Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. manager of communications and public affairs who was also the utility’s chief lobbyist, died Nov. 30.

Willard C. Wiggins, one of four African Americans who advanced integration at the Gilman School in Baltimore in the 1960s and went on to a more than four-decade career with the Social Security Administration, died Friday.

An iconic piece of history related to the founding of Israel, the Holocaust and the Chesapeake Bay, is to be auctioned off Saturday in Kansas.

Dr. Michael T. Crow, an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, has died at age 66.

The Rev. James M. "Mike" Coram, who had dual careers as an Episcopal priest and a Baltimore Sun newspaperman, has died at age 80.

Audrey C. Pinkney, who taught in Baltimore public schools for more than three decades and was active in the affairs of St. James Episcopal Church, has died at age 92.

Henry C. Wiedefeld III, a retired Baltimore firefighter and Vietnam veteran, has died at age 70.

George W. “Jack” Tyrie Jr., the third-generation proprietor of John Tyrie & Son, a Cockeysville, Maryland, tombstone company, who also served on in the Baltimore County Council, died Nov. 27.

Evelyn E. Riesett, a former Baltimore Sun commercial illustrator and an accomplished watercolorist, died Oct. 30 at Gilchrist Center Towson. The Lutherville resident was 91.

Bailey M. Eck, a retired journalist who had served on the boards of the Walters Art Museum and WYPR, has died at age 77.

Jack E. Childress, a former National Security Agency worker and Korean and Vietnam War veteran, has died at age 90.

Dr. William E. Woodward, an epidemiologist and expert in infectious diseases, died Nov. 16 at his Oxford, Maryland, home. He was 80.

Caroline A. Paff, an expert in planning and development who was a principal at VI Development LLC in Baltimore, is dead at 51.

Samuel Q. Tharpe, a retired atomic power plant security supervisor and avid gardener, has died at age 92 in Pylesville, Maryland.

The legendary Baltimore and Ohio Railroad china is back. Well, at least one piece of it, and it's paper. The reproduction is the brainchild of retired CSX executive E. Ray Lichty, who, with his wife, Judy, also collects the real thing.

Dr. Jeffrey A. Grigg, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education, has died at age 42.

The Rev. Alice M. Bassett-Jellema, pastor of the Church of the Guardian Angel in Remington for 22 years, has died at age 62.

William R. Wiley Jr., a retired personnel-purchasing manager and a decorated World War II veteran, has died at age 99.

James F. "Ace" Adams, a former Johns Hopkins All-American and lacrosse coach, who led teams at St. Paul's School and later at West Point, Penn and Virginia, has died at age 91.

Jean A. "Sandra" Kouwenhoven, a horticulturist who enjoyed collecting exotic plants, has died at age 83.

Alice L. Kempner, a former Baltimore County public schools principal who later became an assistant area superintendent, died Oct. 25 of heart failure at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Towson resident was 97.

James E. Watkins, a retired dairy foreman and New Psalmist Baptist Church deacon, has died at age 85.

Dr. Timothy W. Robinson, a retired anesthesiologist, has died at age 66.

Allan Starkey, a longtime English teacher and actor who was a devoted opera fan, has died at age 77.

Edward P. Nordberg Sr., a retired Baltimore County counselor and beloved golf coach, has died at age 90.

Patricia C. Knepp, a former teacher and Anglophile, has died at the age of 92.

Sarah L. Gracie, a retired Baltimore County public schools who taught English and journalism, has died at age 76.

Robert E. Hall, a retired Brown Capital Management LLC portfolio manager and a philanthropist who gave to Johns Hopkins University, is dead at 86.

Elaine C. Deuber, a devoted Baltimore Colts fan and homemaker, has died at age 89.